Interim E-commerce & Payments Finance Transformation Lead

Michael Page; Genf; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive package

On-site role in Geneva

Job summary

Michael Page is partnering with an international organization in Geneva to recruit an Interim e-commerce and payments finance transformation lead. The role designs and delivers the finance workstream for a new ecommerce and payments ecosystem, ensuring accounting readiness, control, and compliance by design to support the full roadmap.

This position requires close collaboration with the Commercial and IT & Digital Services teams, ownership of finance discovery and backlog, and extensive

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant or equivalent.
• 8 to 12 years of relevant experience, with an emphasis on proven delivery.
• Proven finance transformation leadership involving e-commerce, payments and ERP integration.
• Experience with subscriptions, international tax-process integration and partner/revenue-sharing arrangements.
• Fluency in English, with excellent written and spoken communication.
• Expertise in accounting-event design, reconciliation architecture, financial data models and internal controls.
• Strong requirements documentation, stakeholder management and testing skills.
• Hands-on experience working with transactional data.
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts in a clear and accessible manner.

Responsibilities

• Own finance discovery, requirements, process design and the finance implementation backlog.
• Document accounting policies and obtain approval for unresolved revenue, subscription, royalty and retrocession treatments.
• Define Finance ERP (Microsoft Dynamics Business Central) integration requirements, data mappings, audit references, control totals and exception handling.
• Design payment, fee, settlement, bank and ledger reconciliations.
• Coordinate validated tax requirements with tax advisers, tax-engine providers and implementation teams.
• Design the reporting data model and actual-versus-budget/forecast framework.
• Define multi-currency and treasury requirements.
• Design effective-dated royalty and member-settlement rules for national and third-party content.
• Lead finance test planning, expected-result preparation, UAT and defect prioritization.
• Validate migration, cut-over and go-live readiness.
• Deliver procedures, training, operational handover and post-launch stabilization.
• Maintain a finance design that can accommodate later phases without unnecessary rebuilding.

Skills

Finance transformation

ERP integration

Stakeholder management

Accounting event design

Education

Qualified accountant or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Job description

Michael Page is partnering with an international organization in Geneva to recruit an Interim e-commerce and payments finance transformation lead. The role designs and delivers the finance workstream for a new ecommerce and payments ecosystem, ensuring accounting readiness, control, and compliance by design to support the full roadmap.

This position requires close collaboration with the Commercial and IT & Digital Services teams, ownership of finance discovery and backlog, and extensive