Support Operations It Finance Leader

Job Description
The Support Operations IT Finance Leader will support the global blueprint and digital tools supporting the Finance function for the business. The Support Operations IT Finance Leader will provide program and project management, technology leadership, and SAP expertise supporting the global finance department for the Veolia Water Technologies &
Solutions organization.In this role, you will partner with the Finance Business Systems team to provide IT leadership related to finance initiatives and projects. The Support Operations IT Finance Leader manages the resources responsible for global IT projects to drive continuous process improvement, standardization, and simplification across the finance organization. A critical aspect of this role is relationship management between IT finance and business finance to ensure IT is delivering support for all finance related processes.
Key Characteristics:
● Consistently provide insightful advice through solutions to support stakeholders viewpoint
While considering the global blueprint.
● Display behavior that respects and values individual differences and actively encourages
Others to share their ideas and their opinions
● Regularly display a strong business acumen and the willingness to partner with various
Stakeholder groups to drive meaningful change.
Duties &
Responsibilities:
● Lead and manage the IT Support Operations team supporting Project Systems, Finance and Controlling.
● Collaborate with client partners to seamlessly integrate the program area into the overall
Strategic objectives of the organization and improve business processes
● Manage budgets and contracts associated with purchase services, software agreements, and support resources
● Author and maintain the Project Systems, Finance and Controlling technical roadmap.
● Accountable for operational excellence of assigned projects including resource
Requirements, project reviews, feasibility, prioritization, initiation, execution and closure
● Oversight and leadership of requirements gathering, analysis and determining alternatives for Finance organization processes
● Understand processes and complex requirements and translate them into simplified system designs and ERP functional solutions in SAP ECC6 / S4 HANA.
● Prepare detailed functional requirements and specification documents to assist the
Technical team in the development of WRICEF objects for SAP FI/CO/PS and related
Modules.
● Drive SAP best practices standards and implement industry best practices.
● Assess and design scalable best in breed/emerging technologies. Make non-ERP solution recommendations where applicable contributing to the broader platform ALM.
● Responsible for Finance and Project Systems related interfaces with external systems &
cross module integration with other SAP modules
● Collaborate with external AMS partner to meet SLA’s
● Identify the root cause of operational issues, diagnose problem areas, design and build
Solutions.
● Apply and adhere to IT standards including;
general IT controls, security, data privacy,
Quality, project management.