Finance Business Process Lead

Overview

WD-40 Company is rolling out a new ERP platform across its global markets, and we need a Finance domain expert to help us get it right. Not a button-pusher. Not a ticket-taker. A thinker who owns the Finance process stream — someone who can walk into a room with stakeholders from multiple countries, understand how they work, map the gap between where they are and where they need to be, and co-design a solution that actually sticks. This is a newly created dedicated role — WD-40 has reached the point in its global ERP journey where this function needs its own owner. You will have a thorough handover from the internal colleague who built this function and will ensure you successfully hit the ground running. You'll be embedded in a global implementation team, working alongside an Implementation Specialist as a true partner — you bring the Finance expertise, they bring the system architecture. Together, you'll shape how WD-40 handles its financial processes worldwide. This role offers the flexibility of working a hybrid schedule between your home and our office in Milton Keynes, UK (minimum 2 days in office per week). This role requires UK work authorization. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Responsibilities

During implementation, your days will include:

• Leading and co-leading requirements workshops and fit-gap sessions with finance stakeholders across multiple countries and regions
• Translating messy, country-specific business realities into clean, scalable process designs that hold up globally
• Partnering with the Implementation Specialist to build solutions that maximise standard functionality and minimise expensive customisation
• Owning the Finance process documentation — future-state design, functional specs, and SOPs
• Building and executing test scripts; reviewing results and driving fixes before go-live
• Creating training materials and leading sessions for the teams who will live in these processes every day
• Supporting hypercare through go-live — you're not dropping the baton at cutover
• Providing process enhancement design and escalation support for countries already live on the platform

The complexity you'll navigate:

• Active rollouts in Japan and Brazil from day one, with a major multi-year EMEA implementation beginning 2027 — the scope continues to grow globally as your impact does
• One warehouse serving multiple European countries — your process designs have to work across different tax regimes, regulatory environments, and business cultures
• E-invoicing requirements that vary by country across Europe and Latin America
• Multi-entity structures with nuanced intercompany flows
• 80% of transactions processed via EDI — you don't need to be a technical EDI expert, but you need to understand the implications
• Ongoing responsibility for process enhancements and escalation support in countries globally — the work doesn't stop between rollouts

What does 'good' look like?

The best candidate we've ever seen for this type of role didn't come in waving a software certification. They came in with deep finance knowledge, asked the sharpest questions in workshops, and left every session with stakeholders feeling heard and confident. They could spot a process gap before the system could, and they co-created solutions rather than just documenting requirements. That's the bar.

Qualifications

Non-negotiables:

• 7–10 years of Finance process expertise across Record-to-Report (RTR) — GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Cost Accounting, Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Cash Management, or similar
• Meaningful experience operating across multiple countries or regions — you understand that tax structures, regulatory requirements, and ways of doing business are not interchangeable, and you've navigated that complexity in practice
• Experience contributing to an ERP implementation (as a business analyst, process owner, SME, or similar) — you know what a fit-gap workshop is and how to run one
• Comfort working across time zones and with geographically dispersed stakeholder teams
• Ability to hold your ground in a room: you'll work with senior stakeholders who have strong opinions
• UK work authorisation (visa sponsorship is not available)
• Travel: Some international travel required during implementation phases

Genuinely valued, not just filler:

• Experience with e-invoicing in European, Latin American, or Asian markets
• Familiarity with European VAT schemes and/or tax compliance in Brazil or Japan — both are active rollout markets
• Consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry background — relevant domain knowledge travels
• ERP experience in any major platform (D365, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent) — the tool matters less than your ability to translate business processes into system logic
• Comfort with EDI transaction flows