Position Summary
IREN is a leading AI Cloud Service Provider, delivering large-scale GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s vertically integrated platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and data centers in renewable-rich regions across the U.S., Canada and Spain.
With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.
The Finance Lead – SAP Implementation plays a key role in leading the finance workstream of the organisation’s SAP implementation, partnering with Finance, IT, and external delivery partners to ensure the system is designed, built, and deployed to meet the business’s financial reporting and control requirements.
Responsibilities
- Lead the finance workstream of the SAP implementation, acting as the primary point of contact between Finance and the wider project team.
- Partner with business stakeholders to gather, document, and validate finance requirements, ensuring alignment with statutory, reporting, and control needs.
- Work with SAP consultants and IT to design finance processes and system configuration, ensuring fit-for-purpose solutions across FI/CO and integration points.
- Lead or support key design decisions, drive process standardisation, and identify opportunities to improve controls and efficiency through the new system.
- Own the finance testing strategy, including unit, integration, and user acceptance testing, ensuring issues are identified, tracked, and resolved.
- Lead data migration activities for finance master and transactional data, ensuring accuracy and completeness ahead of go-live.
- Plan and coordinate cutover activities for the finance workstream, minimising disruption to month-end,
quarter-end, and year-end processes.
- Develop and deliver training and change management activities to support finance user adoption of the new system.
- Support post-go-live stabilisation, ensuring finance issues are resolved quickly and control discipline is maintained.
Requirements
- Mínimum 8-12 years’ experience in finance, with significant exposure to ERP or SAP implementation projects.
- Proven experience leading the finance workstream on one SAP implementation (S/4HANA preferred), from design through to go-live and post-implementation support.
- Strong knowledge of SAP Finance modules (FI/CO) and their integration with other modules such as MM, SD, and PP.
- Solid understanding of accounting principles, financial controls, and end-to-end finance processes (record to report, procure to pay, order to cash).
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into system design and to challenge and shape process design decisions.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience engaging senior finance leaders, IT teams, and external implementation partners.
- Experience leading testing cycles, data migration, cutover planning, and training for finance system implementations.
- Project management skills, with the ability to manage timelines, risks, and competing priorities in a complex, dynamic environment.
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA) or equivalent is desirable.
- Maintain clear documentation of process design, configuration decisions, and controls to support audit and governance requirements.
Compensation
- Compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, and market data for the region.
- Total Compensation package may be inclusive of annual incentive bonus, and equity (long-term incentive)
Health & Wellness
- Medical, dental and insurance coverage.
- Wellhub: access to gyms, fitness classes and wellness services.
- Pluxee: adaptable benefits for meals, transportation and childcare expenses.
📌 Finance Lead – SAP (Madrid)
🏢 IREN
📍 Madrid