Finance Transformation PMO Lead

Brilliant® is an award-winning contract and consulting practice headquartered in Chicago and specializing in accounting, finance, technology and business solutions for the Midwest and Southeast regions of the U.S. labor markets. Finance Transformation Lead — Interim / Contract We're working with a growing $1B+ privately held company to find a senior finance professional who can step in and lead change across the CEO organization. This isn't a keep-the-lights-on role. It's a hands-on leadership engagement for someone who has been through the full lifecycle of organizational transformation across M&A integrations, system implementations and optimizations, process improvements, and finance re-design. The work spans several interconnected priorities: ERP migration and finance systems implementation; owning the finance workstream from design through hyper care, ensuring the system reflects how the business actually operates M&A integration — standing up finance operations at acquired entities, building repeatable integration playbooks, and driving post-close execution across accounting, reporting, and controls Business process optimization — redesigning core finance processes (close, reporting, consolidation, FP&A) to eliminate friction, improve speed-to-close, and support scale Strategic value creation — partnering with leadership and the sponsor to connect finance initiatives to the investment thesis, track synergies, and build the reporting infrastructure that supports decision-making PMO and program governance — bringing structure to complex, multi-workstream programs through milestone management, risk tracking, executive reporting, and cross-functional coordination What makes someone right for this: 10+ years in finance or accounting, with real transformation experience Hands‑on ERP implementation as the finance-side lead (SAP, Oracle, Workday, D365, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, or similar) Post‑merger integration experience, including opening balance sheets, chart of accounts rationalization, close‑cycle stand‑up Comfort operating in PE‑backed, high‑growth, or acquisitive environments where speed and precision both matter CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred; PMP a plus Big 4, consulting, or corporate finance backgrounds all welcome; what matters is that you've built, not just advised Details: Chicago; flexible hybrid Competitive rate commensurate with experience #J-18808-Ljbffr Brilliant