Vice President - Corporate Finance Systems - IT

About the Client:

We're a global team of alternative investment managers passionate about delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. With over 30 years of proven expertise across Private Equity, Credit and Real Estate, regions, and industries, we're known for our integrated businesses, strong investment performance, value-oriented philosophy, and people.

We are seeking a high-energy individual to lead, manage, direct, and deliver on strategic initiatives across business functions mainly focused on finance systems. This individual will also provide production support and small enhancements for the applications within their portfolio. The ideal candidate provides visible leadership, accountability, and authority ensuring key services and project delivery commitments are defined, agreed to, and tracked against commitments. The position requires knowledge and practical experience in finance functions and practices. Functional knowledge and experience with supporting ERP systems such as PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS or Workday Financials is required. The primary application focus will be on PeopleSoft and Concur.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Management Responsibilities: Manages (directly or indirectly), coaches and mentors a team of employees and consultants who provide technical development and functional/ production support.

- Strategic Initiatives: Develop technology strategy through defining scope of projects, business requirements gathering, overseeing design and user acceptance testing (UAT), and supporting user system adoption. Partner with key business stakeholders to set the priority of enhancements and project roadmap initiatives to assess current and future target operating model requirements.

- Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as SME on internal and external systems (PeopleSoft / Concur) and identify best practices for optimizing system use both internally and externally.

- Perform in the role of a solutions architect and recommend appropriate solutions based on best practices.

- Vendor Management: Manage vendors and coordinate system upgrades, enhancements, and fixes. Ensures expected deliverables and services are being met and tracks overall vendor spend to budget.

- Project Management: Identify risks, plan for unanticipated outcomes, and form appropriate contingency plans. Communicate project status, risk management, and escalate issues that the team cannot resolve.

- Governance: Drive change and implement new services and solutions, building governance & ownership around the new initiatives/processes. Ensure a robust governance framework is used to deliver programs/projects on time and within budget.

- Change Management: Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with strategic solutions. Identifies and recommends proactive prevention solutions and opportunities for continual improvements.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: (Academic, Professional, Experience):

- 20 years of Technology expertise leading, delivering, and supporting finance application solutions of varied complexities

- 10+ years of PeopleSoft/major ERP functional experience (Workday Financials, PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, etc.), and integration touchpoints with various reporting tools.

- Minimum of 10+ years of supervisory management experience mentoring/coaching/developing direct reports.

- Minimum of 10+- years industry full cycle experience of SDLC, and PMLC methodologies and approaches, including refining business requirements and defining functional specifications.

- Working accounting knowledge of how transactions post to the general ledger and ability to do accounting impact analysis.

- Experience with OneStream, Kyriba, and Workday applications is a plus.

- Knowledge of allocation methodologies is a plus.

- Independent business analysis skills.

- Experience managing a cross functional, Global team in a matrixed environment.

- Understanding of integration tools such as ETLs and APIs

- Experience leading complex projects including multiple parties both internal and external.

- Excellent communications skills both written and verbal.

- Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills

- Adept at listening and soliciting feedback from users and stakeholders.

- Detail & process-oriented

- Solid team player with a strong work ethic

- Ability to thrive in a high-intensity, fast-paced environment.

ABOUT THE CLIENT:

Our client is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES:

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

- The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

- The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects - and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

- A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today - such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact - where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

- Outperform expectations.

- Challenge Convention

- Champion Opportunity

- Lead responsibly.

- Drive collaboration

- As one team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.