Finance Platforms Lead

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 has an opportunity available for a for a Finance Platforms Lead. The Finance Platform Squad Lead, reporting to the Core Platforms Tribe Lead, oversees the health, delivery, and performance of Dis-Chem’s Finance platforms. Leading a cross-functional squad, the role manages the configuration, integration, enhancement, and operation of finance capabilities including general ledger, accounts payable/receivable, asset accounting, financial controls, statutory reporting, and integrations. Collaborating with Product Owners, Finance leadership, Audit, and Risk teams, the Squad Lead converts Core Platforms Tribe roadmap priorities into an actionable backlog, ensuring consistent delivery while maintaining financial accuracy, audit integrity, and platform stability. This role is essential to keeping Finance platforms reliable, compliant, and properly integrated with Retail, Supply Chain, POS, and Integration platforms

Requirements

• 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

Platform ownership and roadmap

• 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

Delivery and operations

• 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

Governance and collaboration

• 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

Key performance indicators

• Availability and operational stability of finance platforms
• Accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial processing and reporting
• On-time delivery of finance platform enhancements and regulatory changes
• Reduction in finance-related incidents and control failures
• Satisfaction of Finance, Audit, and Risk stakeholders
• Contribution to culture, accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement

Ways of working (Agile & squad-based)

• Operate with clear platform ownership and accountability
• Promote transparency, quality, and continuous improvement across squads
• Balance delivery velocity with financial control and enterprise governance discipline

Special Conditions of Employment:

• South African citizen
• MIE, clear criminal and credit
• Driver’s license and/or own reliable transport

Remuneration and benefits:

• Market related salary
• Medical aid
• Provident fund
• Staff account

Dis-Chem Pharmacies is an equal opportunity employer. Dis-Chem’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process aligned to Dis-Chem’s Employment Equity & Transformation Strategy. Dis-Chem actively supports the recruitment of People with Disabilities.