The Role
Senior consultant partners with finance leaders to design and implement finance-driven ERP solutions for manufacturing. Focus areas include controlling, cost accounting, product costing, WIP, variance analysis, inventory valuation, and integration with production, supply chain, and logistics. Leads finance sub-projects, advises on process transformation and governance, prepares customers for go-live and stabilization, supports pre-sales, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to align finance processes with Abas standard functionality.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Senior, Business Solution Consultant partners with finance leaders, functional managers, and senior executives to define, design, and implement finance-driven solutions within a manufacturing environment. This role has a strong focus on financial processes, controlling, cost accounting, and financial reporting, while ensuring tight integration with production, supply chain, and logistics operations.
The consultant acts as a trusted advisor during Abas implementations, translating complex manufacturing finance requirements into efficient, standardized solutions. This includes leading finance related sub-projects, guiding customers through process transformation, and ensuring best-practice financial governance in manufacturing organizations.
The consultant acts as a trusted advisor during Abas implementations, translating complex manufacturing finance requirements into efficient, standardized solutions. This includes leading finance related sub-projects, guiding customers through process transformation, and ensuring best-practice financial governance in manufacturing organizations.
Responsibilities
- Finance & Controlling Subject Matter Expert for manufacturing environments, including:
- Financial Accounting, Controlling, Cost Accounting
- Product costing, work-in-progress (WIP), variance analysis
- Post-calculation, inventory valuation, and manufacturing cost rollups
- Integration of Finance with Production, Supply Chain, and Logistics
- Analyze and consult on end-to-end financial processes with customers, focusing on manufacturing-specific finance requirements
- Advise finance leadership and functional stakeholders throughout the change process, ensuring financial transparency, compliance, and control
- Identify, promote, and apply manufacturing finance best practices within Abas
- Design integrated financial and controlling processes aligned as closely as possible to Abas standard functionality; define functional enhancements where required
- Prepare customers for go-live from a finance and controlling perspective and support financial activities during go-live and stabilization
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional project team members and report progress, risks, and outcomes to the Project Manager
- Support pre-sales activities including processing tenders, estimating scope, and preparing implementation proposals with a strong finance focus
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, IT, Operations Management, or Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum 3 years as a Business Solution Consultant or 5+ years as an ERP user, with strong hands-on finance or controlling experience in a manufacturing environment
- Proven expertise in manufacturing finance concepts, including costing methods, inventory valuation, and financial integration with production processes
- Solid understanding of manufacturing models such as Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock, and Engineer-to-Order
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate finance requirements into ERP system designs
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage finance executives and operational stakeholders alike
- High customer orientation with a structured, solution-driven consulting approach
- Willingness to travel up to 40%
About
Forterro is a federation of ERP software and services companies serving small to mid market companies around the globe, with offices in UK, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Poland, Bulgaria, India, Morocco and USA. At Forterro, we invest in and help to fortify both local and niche ERP software businesses.Our product line businesses are local, not localized and vertical, not verticalized.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, IT, Operations Management, or Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum 3 years as a Business Solution Consultant or 5+ years as an ERP user with strong hands-on finance or controlling experience in manufacturing
- Proven expertise in manufacturing finance concepts including costing methods, inventory valuation, and financial integration with production
- Solid understanding of manufacturing models such as Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock, and Engineer-to-Order
- Strong analytical skills with ability to translate finance requirements into ERP system designs
- Excellent communication skills to engage finance executives and operational stakeholders
- High customer orientation with a structured, solution-driven consulting approach
- Experience with Abas ERP implementations and configuring finance/controlling processes
- Willingness to travel up to 40%
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The Company
What We Do
Founded in 2012, Forterro has grown to become a category leader software solutions for the industrial market – with strongholds in Europe’s top production economies, as well as regional service hubs and development centres around the world. From more than 40 office locations, our 1,600+ employees provide and support software for more than 13,000 industrial businesses. Our products are deeply rooted in the demands of their local geography. And each is designed to strengthen and accelerate our customers’ ability to operate efficiently and compete effectively.
