Senior IT Finance Manager

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide 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 more than 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day. We simply aim to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation across the world.

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We are an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

The Senior IT Finance Manager will support the global blueprint and digital tools supporting the Finance function for the business.   The Senior IT Finance manager will provide program and project management, SAP expertise and lead the finance technology team supporting the global finance department for the Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions organization. In this role, you will partner with the Finance Business Systems team to provide IT leadership related to finance initiatives and projects.  This role manages the resources responsible for the technical delivery of global programs and projects that drive continuous process improvement, standardization, and simplification across the finance organization.  A critical aspect of this role is relationship management between IT finance and business finance to ensure IT is delivering support for all finance related processes.

Key Characteristics: 

• Consistently provide insightful advice through solutions to support stakeholders viewpoint while considering the global blueprint.

•  Display behavior that respects and values individual differences and actively encourages others to share their ideas and their opinions

• Regularly display a strong business acumen and the willingness to partner with various stakeholder groups to drive meaningful change.

Duties & Responsibilities:  

• Responsible for the strategic technical roadmap, support, and program delivery of the organization's Finance and controlling technologies used across global Finance teams.

• Collaborate with Finance leaders as a skilled influencer.  Drive FICO & Project Systems  product roadmap discussions,  implementation strategies and convert the roadmap into action plans.   

• Lead and manage the IT Finance team to  drive continuous process improvement, standardization, and simplification through technical solutions.

• Lead a technical team to assess and design scalable best in breed/emerging technologies.  Make non-ERP solution recommendations where applicable contributing to the broader platform ALM.

• 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.

• Responsible for Finance and Project Systems related interfaces with external systems & cross module integration with other SAP modules 

• Manage budgets and contracts associated with purchase services, software agreements, and support resources.

• Lead a team to 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.

Hard Skills:

• 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.

• 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.

Soft Skills:

• Inclusive: Passion for working in different cultures and environments, in a collaborative organization with a diversity team.

• Team Player: Ability to work with and lead others toward a shared goal, participating actively, accountable and committed to the entire team respecting peers, leadership, stakeholders, and clients.                                             

• Inspirational: Excellent oral and written communication skills: Communicate clearly and professionally with  Finance and IT leaders within the organization being able to inspire others. 

• Decision Maker: Challenge the status quo and make decisions based on your role to be an effective problem solver and use critical thinking skills to find new ideas and connect them to provide the best practices and tools to our stakeholders and clients.

• Flexibility: Adapt and respond to the changing environment and constructively create opportunities for change through active participation. Continuous learning and curiosity.

• Skilled influencer, able to communicate complex messages to all levels of the organization.

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent discipline from an accredited college or university 

• Minimum of  8 years of experience in SAP ERP with strong focus on FI/CO

• Strong foundation of standard SAP processes and modules with expertise in Finance, Controlling and Project Systems.

• Proven leadership skills in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated Program and Project Management and/or Operations experience in a matrix environment

• Experience with implementation of large IT systems

• Experience in SAP integration with multiple legacy system landscapes and third party systems

• Strong communications skills with proven ability to serve as a change agent and thought leader in business process development

• English language proficiency

Preferred:

• Preferred global experience

• Agile and /or, PMI certification

• SAP S4HANA experience or certification(s)

• SAP Development (i.e. ABAP, Fiori, etc.) knowledge is an advantage

• Experience in manufacturing industry 

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent discipline from an accredited college or university 

• Minimum of  8 years of experience in SAP ERP with strong focus on FI/CO

Working Conditions available for travel up to 20%

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.