About the Position

Finance Transformation Programme Manager

Dublin, Ireland

About Us

Amach is an industry-leading technology-driven company with headquarters in Dublin and remote teams across the UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, we specialize in solving aviation complexity issues using cloud, data, and AI. Our goal is to maximize airlines' operational efficiency by optimizing resource use, reducing costs, and enhancing customer experience and satisfaction.

We are seeking an experienced Finance Transformation Programme Manager to lead the next phase of a large-scale finance transformation journey. This senior programme delivery role is responsible for translating strategic objectives into a structured, well-governed roadmap of initiatives that deliver measurable business value across finance, technology, data, and process improvement.

This is an initial 18-month contract role with a hybrid working model requiring 4 days per week onsite in Dublin.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the Finance Transformation roadmap, translating strategic priorities into a sequenced and governed programme of initiatives.
Lead end-to-end delivery of complex finance transformation workstreams, from business case development through design, implementation, deployment, and benefits realisation.
Establish and manage programme governance, including programme plans, RAID logs, milestone tracking, benefits tracking, and executive reporting.
Manage programme budgets, resource allocation, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines.
Drive process improvement initiatives across the finance function, identifying opportunities for optimisation, automation, and efficiency gains.
Evaluate emerging technologies and build business cases for inclusion within the transformation roadmap.
Lead change management activities including stakeholder analysis, impact assessments, communications, training, and adoption strategies.
Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across finance leadership, executive teams, technology functions, and wider business units.
Facilitate steering committees, workshops, prioritisation forums, and key decision-making sessions.
Ensure alignment across multiple programme workstreams, proactively resolving cross-functional risks and blockers.
Define, track, and report on programme benefits, ensuring clear linkage between transformation initiatives and financial outcomes.
Champion the adoption of finance technologies, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement practices across the organisation.
Work closely with finance, technology, HR, data, and other business functions to ensure successful delivery of cross-functional transformation initiatives.
Support the design and evolution of finance operating models, organisational structures, processes, systems, and data capabilities.
Lead finance process mapping, future-state design, and target operating model development to support ongoing transformation objectives.

Requirements

Strong finance transformation background with deep understanding of end-to-end finance processes, finance operating models, month-end activities, governance, and controls.
Comfortable operating within finance functions and speaking the language of finance.
Proven experience delivering large-scale, multi-workstream finance transformation programmes from business case through to benefits realisation.
Strong programme management experience, ideally supported by qualifications such as Prince2, PMI, APM, or equivalent.
Demonstrated experience leading structured change management initiatives within large transformation programmes.
Experience delivering continuous improvement and process optimisation projects within finance environments.
Experience supporting or leading finance-focused SAP transformation programmes, ideally with responsibility for post-implementation optimisation, process redesign, adoption, and benefits realisation.
Experience working across multiple business workstreams including Finance, Technology, HR, Data & Analytics, and other business functions.
Strong understanding of programme governance, benefits realisation, risk management, and executive reporting.
Experience managing senior stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
Exposure to process mining tools such as Celonis, SAP Signavio, or similar.
Excellent communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Strong understanding of business process improvement, systems implementation, and operational controls.
Experience mapping business processes, systems landscapes, data flows, and target operating models.
Strong understanding of enterprise finance platforms, planning systems, reporting solutions, and associated data ecosystems.

Nice to Have

Tableau and/or PowerBI certified.
Experience with Databricks and dimensional data modelling.
Experience working with SAP, enterprise planning and analytics platforms, and finance reporting technologies.
Exposure to AI-enabled finance, analytics, automation, or decision-support capabilities within finance transformation programmes.
Experience helping finance functions become more data-driven through the adoption of modern data and analytics platforms.

We Offer

An opportunity to join a fast-growing company.
Options for career advancement.
Learning and development opportunities.
Flexible working environment.
Competitive salaries based on experience.

About the Company

Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.

If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!

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Used lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent way.
Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
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Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
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Finance Transformation Programme Manager

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