VP - Finance System Implementation

Job Description

Roles and responsibilities:

Lead and be the single point of contact for the regional Finance operations supporting the line finance and business partners.

Manage effective service delivery of regional finance systems

Provide the right leadership to facilitate the growth and create capabilities

Implement standardized processes across systems to manage system security, change, escalation & system monitoring

Review and assess the impact of new GL function and features.

Work closely with the IT teams and design solutions to address platform impact

Build a high performance team supporting the group strategic programs

Build the SME capability and support new process capabilities

Establish strong working relationships with business partners and line finance

Implement best practices and drive process excellence culture within the teams

Identify opportunities to increase efficiency and drive re-engineering and optimization of processes

Monitor the financial platform availability and performance to meet with the performance level agreement and understand and communicate to user groups the root causes & impact

Chair production support meetings with production incident summary, Help Desk log and system availability statistics to drive efficient resolution of issues and defects identified.

Prepare and provide updates to stakeholders and management groups.

Manage production issues & resolution and communicate & escalate any challenges to the IT CoE & Regional IT teams in a timely manner.

Desired Candidate Profile :

Overall Experience of 12+years in Systems domain for Finance Industry

Has managed Systems development and support teams before, in an offshore/on shore model. Knowledge on Finance Systems will be an added advantage. Experience in GL systems development and implementation would be advantageous

Knowledge and experience of Business Analysis, IT & Business Process Re-Engineering, Transition Management, Vendor Management, Product Management, Issue Management, Systems Administration, System Change Management, System Engineering, Data Warehousing, etc. essential

Experience in achieving results in a project context using resources that do not report directly to him/her (e.g. from clients, from other functions, external suppliers, relationships that can be used to facilitate problem solving)

Strong interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with Programme team members and the wider business.

Experience of driving delivery within a complex global change programme using a variety of tools and techniques as appropriate.

Track record of delivering major projects through complete project lifecycle and has been involved in driving and managing change, including from within the line function

Has managed multi-disciplinary teams

Proven experience of IT Support TOM definition, SLA definition and implementation

Bachelors or higher degree in related field or commensurate experience.

Ability to develop effective working relationships with business partners & vendors.

Essential exposure to global programme management, Experience of managing budgets & strong reporting skills.

Ability to bring analytical rigour, structure and solution to problematic areas.

Strong interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with programme team members and the wider business.

Experience of driving delivery within a complex global change programme using a variety of tools and techniques as appropriate.

Has experience in working in a global environment and ideally has worked internationally

Track record of delivering major projects through complete project lifecycle and has been involved in driving and managing change, inc from within the line function