IT Finance Operations Leader

2 months ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Veolia Full time

About Veolia

Veolia is a global leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment. We serve over 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day.

Our Values

We believe in the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and offer challenging and meaningful careers with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

Job Description

Job Title: IT Finance Operations Leader

Job Summary:

The IT Finance Operations Leader will support the global blueprint and digital tools supporting the Finance function for the business. The IT Finance Operations Leader will provide program and project management, technology leadership, and SAP expertise supporting the global finance department for the Veolia organization.

Key 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.

Requirements:

  • Experience with multinational enterprise environments, working with multicultural global teams, delivering ERP solutions through project implementations.
  • Experience contributing and leading multi-functional project delivery.
  • Expert in SAP Finance and Controlling modules and their integration with other SAP modules.
  • Hands-on experience in 2-3 complete SAP ECC/S4HANA implementations with strong SAP Product expertise for solution design.
  • Understanding of all SAP modules and how they are integrated.
  • Proven analytical skills and ability to operate at an appropriate level of detail for stakeholders, lead process mapping exercises.
  • Possess creative thinking and problem-solving skills to produce impactful and innovative designs.
  • Ability to understand and translate complex concepts with clarity and simplicity.
  • Stay current with enabling technologies and work as a partner and change agent to gather support and promote their implementation and use.
  • Full system development life cycle hands-on experience: Analysis, designing, coding, testing, performance tuning and documentation.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Preferred global experience.
  • Agile and/or, PMI certification.
  • SAP S4HANA experience or certification(s).
  • SAP Development (ABAP, Fiori, etc.) knowledge is an advantage.
  • Experience in manufacturing industry.

Additional Information:

Working Conditions available for travel up to 20%.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About Veolia

Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.



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