Technical Manager, Financial Applications

Job Category: Finance

Requisition Number: SUPER004554

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National Capital Region
National Capital Region
41 Rue Victoria
Gatineau, QC J8X 2A1, CAN

National Capital Region
National Capital Region
41 Rue Victoria
Gatineau, QC J8X 2A1, CAN

Brookfield Renewable is one of the core businesses under Brookfield Corporation (“Brookfield”), one of the world’s leading alternative asset managers. Brookfield Renewable is one of the world’s largest owners, operators, and developers of renewable power, with $102 billion of power assets under management. Our portfolio of hydropower, wind, utility-scale solar, distributed generation, and storage assets extends across North America, South America, Europe, India, and China, totaling almost 33,000 megawatts of capacity, and over 7,000 generating facilities globally.

Come Join Us

At Brookfield Renewable, we attract and retain high-performing individuals who are interested in making an impact, driving meaningful change and being part of a fast-paced and collaborative environment. Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. Together, we contribute to the success of one of the fastest growing and largest publicly traded, pure play renewable power platforms in the world while supporting decarbonization and greater energy sustainability to facilitate the global transition to a net-zero.

About the Role

Reporting into the Senior Manager, Financial Applications the Technical Manager, Financial Applications is responsible for providing leadership and maintaining the Financial Applications suites at Brookfield Renewable while leading a successful team. This team maintains, operates, supports, and enhances the existing financial business systems, including but not limited to the ERP, Financial Applications and Integrations Platform.

This position requires the ability to coordinate multiple priorities, build and maintain strong business relationships, and facilitate positive discussions with key cross functional business stakeholders. The Technical Manager must be aware of common support and release management processes and have a good grasp of the business functions supported by the business applications, along with associated compliance requirements across multiple geographies.

The successful candidate strives in a fast-paced environment and possesses strong leadership skills combined with the ability to work effectively and collaboratively across varying departments and levels within the company. This leader must challenge the status quo to continually evolve the support team members, associated processes, and services to drive operating efficiency, and enable the businesses growth mandate.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all activities pertaining to the maintenance, enhancement and support of the financial applications ensuring appropriate attention, escalation and resolution of issues, incidents, requests, and bugs.
• Oversee all production aspects of the applications, including coordinating with infrastructure teams where required, ensuring applications availability and performance are maintained.
• Manage technical team and coordinate scheduling to ensure continuity of service and support across all applications.
• Participate in the implementation of new technologies and actively interact with project teams to coordinate the transition of new technologies, applications and integration into the team and support processes.
• Proactively and efficiently communicate system changes, status, and issues to impacted stakeholders.
• Drive and coordinate incident management activities in conjunction with direct reports to ensure appropriate and timely response to disruptive events to minimize business impact.
• Coordinate and oversee evidence gathering related to Sarbanes-Oxley audits.
• Ensure the team can provide appropriate coverage for all core services and that there are no single points of failure.
• Drive end-to-end resolution of outages and degradation of service.
• Review and approve change orders affecting supported applications ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is met.
• Oversee the team’s ticket allocation and prioritization workflow.
• Manage vendors relationships to ensure alignment with team and business needs and priorities
• Build relationships with support teams and business stakeholders of all levels.
• Actively support the development of skills and capabilities of the group to meet the organization’s objectives.
• Proactively engage with project teams and lead transfer to support activities to ensure smooth transition of knowledge with the support team.
• Prepare status reports and communicate with various stakeholders accordingly.
• Hire, develop, coach and lead employees, with a focus on building strong and collaborative team spirit and foster an open culture that promotes best practices to support and improve internal and external stakeholders’ satisfaction.

Knowledge and Experience Required

• Degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience including at least 2 years of recent experience as a lead of a system Level 3 Support team.
• Proven experience with Oracle PL/SQL packages, procedures and functions.
• Proficiency with Cloud solution and various Azure Resources including Logic Apps, Key Vaults, Storage Accounts, Virtual Machines and API Connections.
• Demonstrated experience supporting ERPs and Financial Applications in a production environment.
• Proven experience in supporting and managing integration solutions and types (API, SFTPs, etc.).
• Familiarity with core ITIL concepts including Change Management, Incident Management and Compliance management under Sarbanes-Oxley and other legal requirements.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to assess risk, identify gaps and convey technical concepts to various stakeholders and senior management team.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to effectively delegate and prioritize workload among the team and with stakeholders.
• Strong organization, planning and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple priorities, deliver within tight deadlines and partake in various projects and initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities by empowering, inspiring, training, developing, motivating and managing performance of the support team.
• Knowledge of IT Infrastructure and Network concepts and terminologies would be considered a strong asset.
• Experience with applications such as IFS, D365-FO, Workato considered a strong asset.

Note: Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Brookfield’s identity. This position requires the employee to be on-site for a minimum of 3 days to perform most effectively. We will reassess the approach on a as needed basis.

Working here, you will enjoy:

At Brookfield, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, bonus structure, a health benefits program, and defined contribution pension plan.
• Our spaces are open, dynamic, and collaborative, giving you access to different businesses and teams. For your wellbeing, our building is equipped with a modern gym, bike storage, and healthy snacks and drinks.
• We cultivate a culture where we invest in your growth and development.

Diversity & Inclusion

Brookfield Renewable embraces and promotes the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including women, Indigenous peoples and other persons of all races, ethnic origins, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions. We also provide accommodation during all parts of the hiring process, upon request. If contacted to proceed to the recruitment process, please advise us if you require any accommodation.