Director - Process & Solutions Finance - Military Veterans

Summary

The Process & Solutions Director supports the company’s leadership by overseeing, managing, and leveraging the entire lifecycle of technology investments and initiatives to enable organization goals & objectives. Position requires a strong leader with a keen customer service orientation that promotes partnership with the business. Position ensures the highest value/priority work for the area is being completed at the committed time and delivers the intended business results.

The Finance process area includes maximizing the SAP and Non SAP financial and management accounting investments ensuring they integrate efficiently and consistently with the broader ecosystem.

Position is responsible for leading a team of functional ERP (SAP) experts who will partner with business analyst(s), the IT Development and Analytics teams to design, build, test and implement ERP solutions. This team of experts supports transformation, delivery and realization of ERP solutions and related 3rd party applications in the Record to Report process area.

This role partners closely with the IT Business Relationship Management (BRM) organization and other IT stakeholders to collaborate with the business to identify continuous improvement opportunities that further enhance business performance and create company-wide benefits. This includes communication & performance reporting about the existing project portfolio and identifying, coordinating & prioritizing projects within the portfolio. Additionally, the position collaborates with other IT leaders to aggregate resources against technology needs and generate a holistic view of future capacity restrictions and demand.

Position has overall responsibility for all SAP and enterprise application activities in their domain (support, changes, projects) and is responsible for owning the design and direction of the process area.

Position requires a leader with a deep understanding of system architecture.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Oversee all activities that optimize value, cost and risk of Finance and Record to Report applications
• Execute the strategy, roadmap and implementation of performance indicators and supporting metrics and trends for ERP applications
• Support ERP Implementation in coordination with core ERP team and VP, IT Applications and VP IT BRM; responsible to contribute towards adoption of ERP global template solutions and standard technologies
• Continually assess the impact of emerging ERP (SAP) technologies against strategic business needs and interpret business value for the leadership team in a consultative capacity.
• Ensure the consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance and reference architectures.
• Perform day-to-day management of the process area direct reports and AMS (including staffing, budgeting and other relevant management functions) and hold all application delivery teams accountable for optimizing the cost, risk and value of ERP applications throughout their life cycle.
• Lead efforts to ensure the workplace environment supports a highly motivated and effective workforce focused on continuous improvement and best practices.
• Manage SAP functional COE personnel, developing their skills and capabilities to meet the needs of the organization, as well as building on existing recruiting capabilities to address new needs and skills gaps.
• Develop productive relationships with business leaders across the organization to influence how SAP applications can enable new sources of value.
• Manage relationship with managed service provider to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization.
• Ensure that applications processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation.
• Implement and manage application life cycle management status reporting, metrics and benchmarks.
• Oversee the Enterprise Applications COE Finance applications organization's successful delivery of business outcomes in partnership with business colleagues, including activities in conjunction with infrastructure and operations.
• Manage and develop domain team (training, career development planning, teamwork).
• Provide direction and priorities to the Track Leads.
• Seek out continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations.
• Practice and comply with all Company policies and procedures (EEO, Harassment, Safety, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.
• Perform other duties deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including, but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures.

Desired Experience

• Strong working knowledge of SAP Finance and Accounting solutions including SAP S/4 Hana, SAP ECC, Blackline, Blacksmith, Anaplan, OpenText VIM applications (e.g., HANA, CFIN, MBC, Loan Mgmt., SAP Receivables and Treasury Mgmt).
• 10 years of demonstrated leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
• 10 years of progressive experience in SAP application design, development, quality assurance and implementation processes to include:
• Proven SAP technical and functional architecture, data model along with new and emerging SAP capabilities.
• Proven SAP capabilities in more than one of the following areas: Financials, Human Resources, Sales or Supply Chain is preferred.
• Experience integrating SAP solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.
• Experience defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines
• Experience building and / or leading SAP functional teams at an enterprise level including the creation of architecture standards, reference architectures and data models.

Desired Education

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, finance, business management or a related field. MIS, CIS or business-related degree is preferred.