IT Finance Lead | Permanent role

Role: IS&T Project Lead Finance Leader (IS&T: Information Systems and Technology)
Location: New York, 10022 - 4 days onsite
Job Type: Fulltime/Permanent

Responsibilities include. but are not limited to:

• Responsible for ensuring a solid support model is planned & executed by the various support teams, including in the upstream systems
• Lead projects as needed in coordination with the IS&T teams as well as with Central (Headquarters) teams.

Application Management

• Represent the organization in a worldwide community (Central and other zones); Ensure business initiatives are in alignment with global strategic direction
• Act as a key point of contact for business teams in relation to Finance and Payment Applications Conduct frequent touchpoints with department heads to ensure application management service level agreements are being met
• Partner with Local and central counterparts to define any new initiatives; act as a valuable business partner with relevant department heads and business key users to define project scope and requirements and propose for arbitration to the proper value committees.
• Responsible for the overall support their area. Ensure timely and accurate updates of his/her application scope landscape; Contributor to the application management planning by incorporating user experiences and best practices to propose future enhancements. Define and apply the security policy related to the applications in his/her scope
• Owns monitoring and production support of ERP (SAP) and all interfaces/integration
• (Middleware/ETL/Job Schedules) related to the Finance and Controlling scope
• Proficient (or a least comfortable) with programming languages and development methodologies

Project Management

• Create and maintain the overall project plan for assigned business project requests;
• Work in conjunction with their Manager and key users to define project scope and requirements; Coordinate/follow-up on project tasks across business users, IS&T and Central IS&T in France; Participate in functional and integration testing;
• Provide management status reporting, including communication to the Executive Team and Central IS&T
• Prepare User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scenarios with the business key users; organize and coordinate UAT to ensure all scenarios are conducted and results properly documented; Co manage resources within the rest of the IS&T organization

Work Experience/Skills:

• Experience in Finance, Controlling, & Payment business domains
• Knowledge of SAP ECC 6.0 (1)
• FI/CO Core competence
• SAD/MM integration points with finance
• Idoc/EDI interfaces processing, analysis, and troubleshooting
• Experience working with and analyzing SAP Batch Jobs/LSMW/Batch Input Sessions
• General integration/interface knowledge - no development needed
• Preferable knowledge of SAP FI/CO DB tables
• Preferable experience with SAP AFS solution
• Knowledge of high level finance processes
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Accounting
• Year-end financial consolidation and reporting processes
• Knowledge of Retail Processes is a plus
• Payment Method application experience is a plus
• Experience in implementing SAP projects

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Asher Williams
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