Finance Platform Lead - Drive ERP Stability & Compliance

Dis-Chem; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Provident fund

Staff account

Job summary

Dis-Chem Pharmacies invites applications for a Finance Platforms Lead to oversee the health, delivery, and performance of the company’s Finance platforms within the Core Platforms Tribe. This role drives roadmap execution, configuration, integrations, and continuous improvement across ERP and related finance systems.

You will collaborate with Finance leadership, Audit, and Risk teams to ensure financial accuracy, compliance, and platform stability across Retail, Supply Chain, POS, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Finance Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years’ experience in finance platforms, ERP systems, or enterprise application environments.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional delivery teams or platform squads.
• Experience in retail, FMCG, or large enterprise environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own execution of the finance platform roadmap within the Core Platforms Tribe.
• Shape priorities, dependencies, and sequencing with the Tribe Lead and Product Owners.
• Ensure finance platforms remain trusted systems of record for financial processing and controls.
• Drive standardization of finance processes and configuration across the organization.
• Lead the finance platform squad delivering configuration, enhancements, and integrations.
• Ensure stable day-to-day operation of finance systems, including period-end and audit-critical processing.
• Own release planning, testing, cut over, and production support.
• Proactively manage incidents, root-cause analysis, and prevention of repeat failures.
• Ensure finance platform changes comply with enterprise architecture, integration standards, security, and financial controls.
• Coordinate closely with Integration, Audit, Risk, and Data teams.
• Manage finance platform vendor delivery within tribe-level governance frameworks.
• Escalate architectural, control, capacity, or priority trade-offs as required.
• Strong understanding of HR, payroll, and people-data platforms.
• Experience operating compliance-heavy, employee-critical enterprise systems.
• Ability to balance platform stability with continuous improvement and employee experience.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with HR, Payroll, and governance teams.

Skills

Cross-functional delivery leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Financial systems familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Finance Systems or related field

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Dis-Chem Pharmacies invites applications for a Finance Platforms Lead to oversee the health, delivery, and performance of the company’s Finance platforms within the Core Platforms Tribe. This role drives roadmap execution, configuration, integrations, and continuous improvement across ERP and related finance systems.

You will collaborate with Finance leadership, Audit, and Risk teams to ensure financial accuracy, compliance, and platform stability across Retail, Supply Chain, POS, and