Senior Finance Transition & Transformation Manager with German

Antal is a leading recruitment and HR advisory company, present in Poland since 1996 and later expanded to the Czech Republic and Hungary. The company employs around 150 professionals across the CEE region, providing services including specialist and executive recruitment, employee outsourcing, HR consulting, employer branding, and market research.

• Experience as a transition/transformation consultant delivering Finance transitions, transformation, or GBS/Shared Services migrations.
• Strong subject-matter expertise across Finance processes: Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), FP&A or similar.
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken).
• Willingness and ability to travel to and work on-site in Germany for extended periods during programme phases.
• Experience managing multi-country, multi-stakeholder transitions.
• Strong project management, RAID, and governance discipline.
• Excellent senior stakeholder management skills.
• Experience engaging German works councils/employee representative bodies is desirable.

Finance Transition Leadership & Delivery:

• Lead end-to-end transition of Finance processes such as Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), and FP&A from legacy sites/entities into the target GBS/Shared Services model.
• Manage transition planning, knowledge transfer, parallel run, and stabilisation.
• Own the RAID log for the Finance workstream, resolving issues and escalating risks.

Process & Operating Model Design:

• Support design of standardised, controlled Finance process operating models.
• Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, and standardisation opportunities.
• Work with process owners to define target-state controls and SOPs.

Stakeholder & Client Engagement:

• Act as the primary point of contact for Finance stakeholders in Germany.
• Lead workshops, steering updates, and status reporting with senior finance and business stakeholders.
• Build strong working relationships with retained finance teams and works councils/employee representative bodies when required.

Project & Governance:

• Operate within the programme's governance framework, reporting to the Transition Programme Lead.
• Track milestones, dependencies, and risks.
• Ensure transitions are delivered in a controlled, auditable, and compliant manner.