About us:
Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Founded in 2013, Amach was created to solve a specific problem in aviation: too much complexity, too little usable intelligence. We help airlines modernise their operating model using cloud, data and Al-delivered by teams with deep aviation domain expertise.
Our goal is to maximize airlines' operational efficiency by optimizing resource use, reduce costs and increase 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 is a senior programme delivery role 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.
Working at the intersection of programme delivery and organisational change, you will drive the successful execution of multiple transformation workstreams, ensuring that new processes, systems, and ways of working are effectively adopted across the finance function. This role requires a strong blend of finance expertise, transformation leadership, stakeholder management, and change management capability.
This is an initial 18 month contract role and operates on a hybrid working model requiring 4 days per week onsite in North Dublin.
Key responsibilities & duties include:
- 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
Required Experience:
- 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
Desirable Experience:
- 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
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salaries based on experience
Equal Opportunity Employer:
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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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.
Your personal data
Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
- 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
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]
Skills Required
- Finance background with strong knowledge of end-to-end finance processes; ideally a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent industry experience
- 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 working in post-ERP transformation environments, including optimisation, stabilisation, automation, and process redesign following SAP or similar ERP implementations
- 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
- Tableau and/or PowerBI certification
- Experience with Databricks and dimensional data modelling
What We Do
We help mature organisations evolve into modern digital businesses with faster time to market, increased operational stability and security. We offer a suite of technical services delivered by an experienced team of subject matter experts. Our services can be provided as a fully managed service or as an embedded part of your team. We focus on both short-term and long-term goals that emphasise business outcomes for our customers. Why choose Amach: 1. Business Agility - We focus on removing your IT debt, so that your company can focus on delivering business value to your customers at pace in a secure and reliable manner. 2. Cost Reduction - We help reduce your IT costs across all domains. This includes operational costs in both cloud and your data centres, licencing, evergreening, and reducing project delivery timelines. 3. Operational Stability - We will modernise your IT systems ensuring operational stability and resilience, to ensure the end user experience for both customers and staff are enhanced. 4. Enable Innovation - By removing IT debt, we create space for your team to focus on innovation, ensuring business longevity and futureproofing. We bring both sector experience and lessons learned. 5. Security - We address the overall architecture to ensure security by convention vs configuration. We promote DevSecOps practices, so security isn’t seen to prevent teams from delivery in an efficient manner. 6. Improve Employee Experience - We create and implement your EUX strategy that adapts to a changing world, while improving security and user efficiency - resulting in improved colleague satisfaction and retention. 7. Sustainability - Achieve your sustainability goals through optimising your overall IT footprint and reducing costs. We thrive on delivering customer value in every interaction. If you are interested in hearing more or to see how we could help you, please get in touch [email protected]
