IT Finance Senior Manager

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Are you ready to join an innovative team where you will have direct influence on game-changing strategies and solutions for one of the world’s largest food companies? Looking for a role where you can help guide the technology functions for business transformation? Wanting to be both strategic and hands-on? Thrive on partnering with talented colleagues and delivering as a team? If so … keep reading!

The Senior Manager of IT Finance and Accounting will play a strategic role within our IT organization in the creation and implementation of standard processes and tools for technical design, testing, release management systems, support, analytics, and resource planning. This role is a business facing role that will engage with leaders across the Finance organization to understand the key business drivers. As a senior manager you will be directly managing project managers and technical analysts that span across multiple disciplines as well as oversee/interlock with other IT resources. Top candidates for this position will combine strengths in program/project management, SAP finance, process definition, and optimization, technical design, governance, strategic planning, and of course people leadership.

Responsibilities:


Inspire and lead a team of IT analysts and project managers through a growth and continuous improvement mindset.
Share your deep knowledge of SAP and Analytics with the team and help set the strategic direction with the business.
Coach and mentor team members in program/project management best practices. Ensure projects stay green through proactive leadership.
Define, implement, and manage processes and governance in the areas of technical design, testing, release management, and support.
Lead the definition of key performance indicators KPI in relation to systems management and prepare and report out on dashboards around our key metrics.
Facilitate resource planning in partnership with your peer managers for the technical resources across our organization. Inspire and lead your team to take on a continuous improvement mentality.
Invests in regular and ad-hoc coaching sessions providing near real-time performance feedback.
Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
Proactively anticipate stakeholder needs and develop and discuss potential solutions.


Requirements:

Education:


Bachelor’s degree in management information systems MIS or Computer Science or related field Preferred.


Experience:


8 plus years of industry experience in Information Systems or advanced degree.
4 plus years progressive experience in a leadership role.
Strong functional expertise in several SAP Finance S/4 areas including General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Product Costing/Actual Costing/Material Ledger, Cost Center Accounting, Analytics, Financial & Master Data Management.
Highly skilled in Project Management using a variety of system lifecycle methodologies.
Demonstrates ability to execute an SAP financials-focused roadmap projects including delivery estimates and quantifiable value case.
Strong financial acumen in leading SAP transformation programs across process, technology and people enablement.
Extensive-level experience and a proven record of success leading diverse teams in configuration and implementation of FICO, Financial Share Services, Financial Reporting & FPA.
Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organization
Excellent leadership and people skills.
Experience with SAP S/4 FI/CO, Fixed Assets and Profitability, SAP Tax and Treasury Management, SAP Accounts Payable, SAP Accounts Receivable and FSCM HighRadius, SAP Sales and Distribution/Billing, Product Costing and Material Ledger.
Experience with SAP ABAP, SAP IDOC and SAP UI5/Fiori, and familiarity with SAP BPC Embedded and Classic versions • Understanding of SaaS solution implementation approaches in the financial and procurement spaces, as well as cloud development tools and techniques.
Understanding of AWS, GCP and Azure Cloud tools.


Special Skills:


Experience having worked in ambiguous environments where you have helped bring clarity and predictability through the use of processes standards and governance.
Proven ability to mentor and develop team members to grow their impact on the organization and achieve their personal career goals.
Project management experience e.g. creating business cases resource planning risk management budgeting project planning execution.
Track record of building strong relationships with leadership peers and partners in order to collectively deliver on our overall organizational strategies.
Advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to operate within complex situations break them down and work with others to define the path out.
Strong presentation skills.


Computer Skills:


Significant experience utilizing Microsoft suite of applications. MS Excel, MS Project, and PowerPoint a minimum.


Communication Skills:


Ability to effectively communicate both written and verbally with customers, peers and management required.


Travel:


Some travel may be required; amount of travel will be determined by individual project requirements.


Relocation Assistance Eligible:

Yes

Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

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