Senior Finance Systems Manager

The Senior Finance Systems Manager is responsible for leading the optimisation, enhancement, and strategic development of the Finance Systems landscape across Central Finance. The role serves as the key link between Finance, Technology, and the business, ensuring that systems effectively support business operations, improve efficiency, and enable future growth.

The role will leverage extensive retail and SAP experience to identify opportunities for process optimisation, systems automation, and technology innovation. They will lead the analysis, planning, and delivery of Finance Systems initiatives, including the use of AI and other automation tools, ensuring business requirements are translated into scalable and practical technology solutions.

Working closely with business stakeholders, Product Owners, technology teams, and vendors, this role will shape the future Finance Systems roadmap by maximising the value of the existing SAP environment and driving continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the business analysis and solution design phase of projects – assessing system impacts, processes, dependencies, effort and options, and translating requirements into functional specifications

• Partner with IT to deliver system enhancements, integrations, upgrades and performance improvements

• Drive process optimisation and automation, reducing manual effort through SAP functionality, workflows and supporting technologies

• Promote standardisation, simplification and continuous improvement across Finance Systems

• Ensure projects deliver measurable operational improvements and business value

• Build strong relationships across Finance, IT, Shared Services and the business, collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers and Infrastructure teams

• Manage relationships with SAP partners and third-party vendors, and communicate progress and strategic priorities to senior leadership
   

Requirements

• Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Information Technology, Finance or a related discipline (essential)

• SAP certification or equivalent practical SAP implementation and support experience (essential)

• Project Management, Agile or Business Analysis certification (desirable)

• Minimum of 10 - 15+ years' Finance Systems, ERP or Business Systems experience within a large retail environment (essential)

• Minimum of 8 - 10+ years' hands-on SAP experience supporting Finance-related processes (essential)

• Minimum of 5 - 8 years' experience in systems optimisation, business analysis, solution design, integrated delivery and technology-enabled transformation (essential)

Skills:

• Deep functional SAP Finance expertise, with strong understanding of end-to-end finance processes and integration points

• Strong business analysis and solution design capability – requirements gathering, impact assessment and functional specification writing

• Project and portfolio delivery skills, including scoping, planning, budgeting, risk and dependency management

• Process optimisation and automation skills, including workflow design and identifying opportunities to reduce manual effort

• Systems and data analysis, with the ability to translate complex technical detail into practical business outcomes

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation and communication skills at all levels, including senior leadership

• Vendor and partner management, including managing SAP partners and third-party service providers

Behaviours:

• Building Effective Teams - forms, develops and leads a group of individuals toward the achievement of a common team objective
• Builds Networks - establishes and nurtures internal and external relationships in order to create robust, and mutually beneficial, partnerships
• Decision Quality - consistently makes timely, well-rounded and informed decisions
• Manages Complexity - interprets and simplifies complex and contradictory information when resolving organisational problems
• Strategic Mindset - thinks and plans strategically, focusing on the long-term goals and objectives of the organisation

Preference will be given, but not limited to, candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.

About us

Who we are is because of our people. They are our greatest asset.  TFG is an internationally diversified retail portfolio of 34 speciality lifestyle and apparel brands that Inspire our Customers to live their Best Lives and are woven into the lives of millions. Our vision is to create the most remarkable omnichannel experiences for our customers. TFG is more than a workplace, it's a launchpad for your growth. Join us and explore endless growth opportunities across our diverse brands.  We’re a purpose-led business, and on this team, you’ll share the pride of making an impact across a whole industry.

We’re the designers, the makers, the shakers and the teams behind the scenes.

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