Partner, Business Systems

7 months ago


Montréal, Canada Canadian National Railway Full time

At CN, everyday brings new and exciting challenges. You can expect an interesting environment where you’re part of making sure our business is running optimally and safely―helping keep the economy on track. We provide the kind of paid training and opportunities that long-term careers are built on and we recognize hard workers who strive to make a difference. You will be able to thrive in our close-knit, safety-focused culture working together as ONE TEAM. The careers we offer are meaningful because the work we do matters. Join us

Job Summary

The Partner, Business Systems is responsible for overseeing the Financial Planning (FP) functional technology processes, which includes the development, automation, integrity, continuity, security, and support of financial system processes. The role partners with CN’s Technology and Systems Applications and Products (SAP) S4 Hana project groups on Financial Planning’s digital transformation initiatives. The incumbent controls reports and tools used by numerous financial partners to provide insight to their customers, including their automation and maintenance. Moreover, the position assists in the creation and development of data and tools to assist in handling CN’s financial planning’s activities as well as financial analysis in a support function.

Main Responsibilities

Financial Planning Systems Processes
- Lead and support FP systems ranging from SAP/S4 Hana, Business Warehouse (BW), Analysis for Office, Dodeca Excel Add-in, Basic Points (BPS), Oracle Essbase and Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Monitor budget and forecast consolidation while ensuring data integrity
- Expand and enhance reporting tools continuously while ensuring their effectiveness and dependability for accurate budgeting and forecasting together with critical business decision-making
- Sustain integrity and accuracy of systems and data while ensuring process fluidity
- Maintain systems and processes continuity, collaborate and coordinate with Information and Technology (I&T) to ensure processes and systems are up to date with CN I&T standards
- Process change requests through the Master Data Maintainer role in SAP S4 Hana
- Handle security roles and controls and direct annual access reviews for BW Operating and Capital cubes, SAP S4 Hana accesses, Essbase, SQL and other related systems
- Handle FP communications on key deliverables, knowledge sharing and updates including the FP SharePoint site
- Take on new processes as required, analyze options, and make recommendations on solutions including implementation roadmap with change management for successful deployment
- Find and interpret rich data sources, merge, and ensure consistency of datasets
- Direct to appropriate I&T support to resolve certain issues

Financial Processes Support and Analytics
- Respond to ad hoc requests, and leverage judgment and skills by providing insights in a format that can be easily consumed and interpreted by internal customers and executives
- Provide visibility on controllable and actionable cost levers, trend analysis, sensitivities, and performance to enable CN leadership team in effective decision-making and draw insights on action items that can positively impact operations
- Prepare monthly consolidated Business Performance Monitor report, which is issued to the Executive Committee and act as liaison with financial partners representing various functions
- Prepare recurring deliverables including the statistics submissions for the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A), fuel dashboard, regulatory reports, and external audit and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) deliverables
- Ensure dashboards KPIs are dynamic, appropriate, and that management actions result from analysis through translating management information into recommendations
- Query large datasets and use data science techniques and link related factors to reveal performance, safety, or cost-saving opportunities

Continuous Improvement
- Act as main contact and Product Owner for enhancement of internal reporting systems by collaborating with the Technology group to develop a service offering for systems support
- Support SAP S/4HANA implementation to ensure smooth integration and advising on enhancement opportunities
- Remain up to date with latest technologies and best practices in line with CN’s standards
- Document as-is and to-be processes, gather requirements, develop test scenarios to ensure quality, and drive change management
- Contribute to FP initiatives and projects, and help implement new processes to meet department and corporate needs
- Automate processes, improve data availability, and create workload bandwidth for the department
- Develop self-serve options and innovative solutions on FP processes
- Train colleagues on data access, offer training sessions and produce job aids for FP systems
- Maintain internal documentation and creation of standard operating procedures on processes and automations for continuity

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