Overview
A remote contract role is available for a consultants based in Spain to support an organization automating its finance operations using Redwood Finance Automation.
The work focuses on the record-to-report cycle, including:
- period-end close
- account reconciliation
- journal processing
- subsequent reporting
All activities are connected to the organization’s ERP.
Responsibilities
- Own the solution design for Redwood Finance Automation.
- Partner with finance process owners to understand how the close runs today.
- Determine what to automate and in what order.
- Produce a solution design that an engineering team can build.
- Stay accountable for the design through build, testing, and go-live.
- Make judgments to ensure the delivered solution matches the designed requirements.
- Conduct current-state analysis of record-to-report processes with controllers and finance operations leads.
- Define the target automation design across close, reconciliation, journals, and intercompany, documented as the solution design.
- Decide where standard Redwood capability is sufficient and where an extension is justified.
- Design integrations, including with SAP S/4HANA or ECC and other source systems.
- Design balance sheet auto-certification rules, controls, approvals, and audit trail so the automated close stands up to audit.
- Guide engineering teams during build and review deliverables against the solution design.
- Define test strategy and acceptance criteria with finance users.
- Create a roadmap for subsequent waves of automation after early processes go live.
Requirements
- Solution design ownership on at least one live Redwood Finance Automation implementation, including running design workshops and writing the design.
- 8 or more years in finance transformation, finance systems, or record-to-report process design.
- Working understanding of SAP FI/CO, or the Oracle equivalent, including how close and reconciliation data flows between the ERP and the automation layer.
- Experience running workshops with finance users and translating workshop outputs into a design that can be built and tested.
- Ability to work with senior finance stakeholders and maintain a design position when challenged.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on build experience on Redwood, to understand what the design requires from engineers.
- Experience with BlackLine, Trintech, or SAP Advanced Financial Closing.
- Finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar).
- Experience in financial services or another regulated industry, including work under SOX or similar audit controls.
Compensation & Benefits
Location
- Remote
- For consultants based in Spain.
Contract Details
- Duration: Duration being confirmed.
- Start date: 15 November 2026.
- Language: English.
Application Requirements
When applying, submit your CV and your available start date. Also include three lines covering your most recent Redwood implementation, specifying:
- the finance processes in scope
- the ERP it connected to
- which design decisions were yours.