What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plex Financial Consultant position at Venteon?
Position Summary
We are seeking a senior Plex Manufacturing Finance and ERP Implementation Consultant to support a multi-entity SAP-to-Plex migration across Europe and North America. This consultant will serve as a bridge between Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and IT teams, helping ensure accurate system configuration, clean data migration, and successful adoption of Plex within a manufacturing environment.
The ideal consultant will combine deep Plex ERP experience with strong manufacturing accounting knowledge, including cost accounting, inventory valuation, purchasing variances, and financial process design. This individual will work closely with controllers, finance leadership, and operational stakeholders to identify gaps, resolve issues, and support implementation activities through go live and stabilization.
Key Responsibilitie
s• Support SAP-to-Plex migration activities across multiple manufacturing and finance entitie
s• Assist with manufacturing costing setup, validation, and testin
g• Analyze and resolve inventory, cost accounting, and financial data discrepancie
s• Review and validate standard costing methodologies, overhead allocations, inventory valuation, and purchasing variance
s• Support SCAR reporting setup, validation, troubleshooting, and user adoptio
n• Assist with vendor master data review, cleanup, governance, and process control
s• Support chart of accounts mapping, financial reporting, and statutory reporting requirement
s• Participate in data migration planning, validation, reconciliation, and testing effort
s• Work directly with plant controllers, cost accountants, finance teams, and operational leadership to define and document business requirement
s• Facilitate user acceptance testing, issue resolution, process documentation, and end user trainin
g• Identify process improvement opportunities and recommend best practices based on prior Plex implementation experienc
e• Serve as a trusted advisor during implementation and post go live stabilization activitie
s
Required Experien
ce• 7 years of Plex ERP experien
ce• Multiple Plex implementation, rollout, or migration projects within manufacturing environmen
ts• Strong manufacturing finance and cost accounting backgrou
nd• Experience supporting inventory valuation, standard costing, variance analysis, and month end close activiti
es• Experience working with purchasing, inventory control, supply chain, and production tea
ms• Experience supporting data migration and ERP conversio
ns• Ability to work independently with both business and technical stakeholde
rs• Strong communication, training, and problem-solving skil
ls
Preferred Experie
nce• SAP to Plex migration experie
nce• Automotive or industrial manufacturing experie
nce• Experience supporting European manufacturing operati
ons• Knowledge of SCAR reporting and quality proces
ses• Experience with multi-site or multi-country ERP deployme
nts• Familiarity with US GAAP and international manufacturing accounting practi
ces
Ideal Backgro
unds• Plex Manufacturing Finance Consul
tant• Plex Cost Accounting Consul
tant• Manufacturing Controller with Plex experi
ence• Plex Functional Consultant with strong Finance and Supply Chain exper
tise• Manufacturing ERP Consultant with SAP and Plex experi