Senior IFS Finance Functional Consultant

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  • Experience 7 Years Experience

Senior IFS Finance Functional Consultant

  • Sri Lanka

What You Will Do

  • Lead finance workstreams across end-to-end IFS implementations, upgrades, and support engagements.

  • Run requirements and process workshops with finance stakeholders; document business needs, controls, gaps, and solution decisions.

  • Design and configure IFS Finance processes and ensure the solution follows customer requirements and IFS standards.

  • Advise on finance integration points with Projects, Maintenance, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain processes.

  • Coordinate with technical teams on reports, integrations, data migration, and other technical activities affecting finance.

  • Plan and oversee finance testing, including scenarios, reconciliations, defect management, UAT, and readiness for go-live.

  • Support customer teams through cutover, go-live, hypercare, and post-implementation issue resolution.

  • Maintain strong communication with stakeholders, manage expectations, and raise delivery risks early.

  • Provide guidance to colleagues and contribute to internal knowledge development and customer or team training.

What You Will Bring

  • At least 6 years of hands-on IFS Finance experience, with typically 8–12+ years of overall ERP or finance systems experience.

  • Experience delivering 2–3 end-to-end IFS Finance implementations, in addition to upgrade or support project experience.

  • Strong functional expertise in IFS Finance and its integration with Projects, Maintenance, Manufacturing, or Supply Chain.

  • Ability to lead requirements gathering, solution design, configuration decisions, and customer discussions with limited supervision.

  • Experience with IFS Applications and/or IFS Cloud; familiarity with Aurena is an advantage.

  • Strong understanding of finance operations, controls, reconciliations, and the implications of system changes on financial reporting.

  • Excellent client communication, analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills.

  • A degree or professional qualification in accounting, finance, business, or a related discipline; Chartered Accountant or Cost Accountant qualification is an advantage.

  • Willingness to travel for customer engagements and to work effectively with distributed project teams.

Helpful Experience

  • Experience supporting multi-company or multi-currency finance environments.

  • Experience with finance data migration, reporting, integrations, or IFS Cloud transformation programmes.

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