Finance Platforms Lead - Midrand

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

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

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

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)

Lead a cross-functional finance platform squad using Agile delivery principles

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