Associate Director – Finance Systems Technology

Associate Director – Finance Systems Technology

Requirements

• Minimum of six (6) years of experience leading Finance Technology Transformation Initiatives including: project management, enterprise implementation, leadership experience, strategic planning, business acumen, applications development, and change management or combination of education, training and experience.
• Works at an advanced level to identify, verify, and manage changes to the scope of the project or program, utilizing the most appropriate approach.
• Works at an advanced level to identify, define, unify, and coordinate the various processes and activities to integrate the project management activities.
• Works at an advanced level to estimate each of the components of project, program, or portfolio work, including costs, activity durations, resource needs, risks, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program.
• Understands core procure to pay business functions and corresponding supporting technologies.
• Experience in working with vendors, business partners and key stakeholders.
• Understands and has experience leading key Finance projects as well as Cloud Transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with technology leadership/key business stakeholders.
• Assist in developing and maintaining strategic technology roadmaps.
• Prepare for Technology/ Architectural Assessment of new solutions.
• Work with Procurement on requirements and evaluation of new vendors and/or solutions.
• Manage project resources, including partnering effectively with business SMEs and Project Stakeholders, Implementation Partners and across Technology Support teams.
• Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests by reviewing requirements and specifications to ensure they are aligned with organizational priorities, business objectives and are the most efficient usage of resources while not compromising value/quality.
• Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management to ensure complete and accurate definitions of business requirements and delivery of business applications.
• Develops, prepares, presents, and maintains project plans, including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets and work breakdown structures and schedules. Monitor projects progress and maintains documentation/reports for impacted consumers.
• Performs project risk assessments, including identifying key risk factors, providing effective mitigation strategies, and assigning contingency action plans to both schedules and budgets.
• Manages projects and teams, including applying established methodologies, using change control templates and processes; managing time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools; monitoring budgets; coordinating resource acquisition and utilization; maintaining precise documentation/artifacts required by PMO and Internal Audit; serving as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers; and communicating regularly with project stakeholders.
• Delivers systems on appropriate platforms in compliance with established technology standards, including monitoring testing, executing quality assurance checks, and ensuring information technology acceptance criteria is met prior to implementation.
• Manages all aspects of the project budget including creating and maintaining resource allocations and actively tracking costs to the approved budget.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with EPM/ERP platforms (Oracle, PeopleSoft, OneStream or HFM) preferred.
• Prior knowledge with Data Warehousing or Finance Data Store Implementations is preferred.