Redwood Finance Automation Solution Designer, United Kingdom

Overview

An established organisation is automating its finance operations using Redwood Finance Automation. This role focuses on solution design for the record-to-report cycle, including the period-end close, account reconciliation, journal processing, and downstream reporting connected to the organisation’s ERP.

Start Date, Duration, and Contract

• Contract duration: Duration being confirmed
• Start date: 15 November 2026

Location

• Remote (for consultants based in the United Kingdom)

Compensation

• Day rate: GBP 450 a day
• Language: English

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end solution design for Redwood Finance Automation for the defined scope
• Partner with finance process owners to:
  • Understand how the close runs today
  • Decide what to automate and in what order
  • Produce a design the engineering team can build
• Stay with the design through build, testing, and go-live
  • Make the calls when designed outcomes need to reflect what is real
• Produce and document:
  • Current-state analysis of record-to-report processes with controllers and finance operations leads
  • Target automation design across close, reconciliation, journals, and intercompany
• Define where standard Redwood capability is sufficient versus where an extension is justified
• Create the integration design with SAP S/4HANA or ECC and other source systems
• Design balance sheet auto-certification rules, controls, approvals, and an audit trail that supports audit readiness
• Guide engineers through build and review deliverables against the solution design
• Collaborate with finance users on:
  • Test strategy and acceptance criteria
• Develop a roadmap for subsequent waves of automation after initial 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+ years of experience in:
  • finance transformation
  • finance systems
  • 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 outputs into designs 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 engineering must implement)
• Experience with any of the following:
  • BlackLine
  • Trintech
  • 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

How to Apply

• Apply with your CV and your available start date
• Include three lines covering your most recent Redwood implementation:
  • the finance processes in scope
  • the ERP it connected to
  • which design decisions were yours