Job Position : Lead IT Manager Finance Function - Global IT Innovation  Scope : Global  Location : India  Travel Time : 10%  About Unilever :  About Unilever IT :  Role Details :  - Lead IT Manager provides a Finance focus on the delivery into their functional or cross-functional area, which includes owning the application landscape roadmap, design to delivery of solutions, supporting the run of the application, maintainability and lower TCO for the business.  Accountabilities and responsibilities :  Following are the verticals that a IT Manager Finance would be responsible for :  Driving Innovations : Identify new technologies, innovations which will provide business value. Designing to Deployment of Solutions to meet business need   Vendor management : Managing and building relationships with vendors  TCO : Drive reduction of TCO for the application or landscape  Sustenance & Resilience : Ensure Sustenance and Resilience of capabilities delivered   Build Talent and Teams : Invest in building talent  Driving Innovations :  - Responsible for both smooth project delivery and Business As Usual post capability is live  - Lead delivery of all agreed IT-related projects, from Feasibility phase to completion   - In the Ideas phase, provide support to Business Engagement in driving clarity of business requirements, high level design, cost and time estimates   - Identify the right design, solution for the business requirements, own the functional specifications and work packages for delivering the solution  - Work in close partnership with the vendors to ensure on-time and on-budget execution of application changes for all key projects and programmes  - Work with global teams like Business Partnerss, Other SME's to adopt global processes, processes, technologies   - Ensure agreed changes are correctly integrated with solutions in other functional areas  - Help ensure Technical and Security standards established are implemented and adhered to during design and implementation  - Ensure smooth transition to support with all knowledge captured.   - Develop strong relationships with other key stakeholders within Unilever IT   - Identify innovations, growth opportunities for exploration   Vendor Management :  - Participate in functional and technical design reviews (QA process) with strategic IT suppliers and/or other 3rd parties when/where appropriate  - Hold vendors accountable for quality and timeliness of deliveries through governance mechanisms  - Ensure adequate knowledge sharing and retention through documentation and adherence to GPD  Drive TCO :  - Drive simplification to support the lowest possible TCO for each component in the systems landscape.  - Deliver above responsibilities within an agreed financial charging structure and budget   - Adopt methodologies of convergence, build once so that the cost of delivery is reduced  Sustenance & Resilience :  - Develop and maintain the road-map for IT systems architecture change/refresh in line with destination architecture and aligned with business priorities for change projects and programmes  - Work with landscape management teams to ensure system hygiene, performance, KEC objectives are delivered  - Work with the release management teams to ensure gate process and release process is adhered to  - To work with the AM teams not only for transition of new projects, but also support of existing processes to ensure user satisfaction and call reduction  - Plan for infrastructure needs, service introduction and service transition and work with the EC teams for delivering it  - Ensure minimal business disruption. In case of a disruption, resolve the issue and the root cause with less downtime  - Ensure a stable and resilient system - this should be ensured in project delivery & BAU  Build Talent and Teams :  - Help build and retain level 1 SME capability   Process and Technology knowledge required :   One or many of the following Business Processes :  - Finance and Supply Chain  Main Associated Technologies / Applications (one or more of these applications) :  - SAP ECC, SAP BPC, Oracle Hyperion Planning  Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job :  Main Accountabilities :  Direct Reports Key Interfaces :  - Analysts for related functional areas  - Fusion Business Users   - Geography IT teams  - Other Enterprise Solutions Teams  - Other SME and Project Teams  - Global Solution Delivery Team  - Business Partner Team  - Information Management and Analytics  - Relevant ES IT teams  - Strategic IT Suppliers and their Unilever Management Teams  Critical success Factors for the Job :  KPIs Relevant Experience :  - Solutions meet agreed business requirement   - Project Delivered on time in budget  - Solutions delivered with no or low impact on existing system performance/operation   - Solution harmonization and adherence to best practice standards  - Proven experience in managing small to medium size IT projects and programmes in reputed organizations  - Proven experience in managing and maintaining teams in a diverse and extended environment  - Appreciation of IT systems landscapes and impact of architecture decisions on quality and delivery  - Good financial awareness and understanding of TCO models  - Good knowledge of process area and IT solutions in area of responsibility (ideally with experience of having managed the relevant business process)  - Experience in the Application Development Life Cycle  Others :  - Ability to work effectively in complex matrix organisations involving outsourced operations  - Flexible and responsive to changing business and market conditions  - Work remotely and independently with little guidance  - Manage resources globally

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Unilever - Lead IT Manager - Finance Function - Global IT Innovation 

Unilever - Lead IT Manager - Finance Function - Global IT Innovation  ,Job Description for Unilever - Lead IT Manager - Finance Function - Global IT Innovation  in Unilever in  Bangalore for (10-16) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Unilever - Lead IT Manager - Finance Function - Global IT Innovation  in Unilever in  Bangalore for (10-16) years of experience. Apply Now!