Support Operations IT Finance Leader

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The Support Operations IT Finance Leader will support the global blueprint and digital tools supporting the Finance function for the business. The Support Operations IT Finance Leader will provide program and project management, technology leadership, and SAP expertise 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. The Support Operations IT Finance Leader manages the resources responsible for global IT projects to 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:
● 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.

Qualifications

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.
● 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

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 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 Supply Chain and Finance professionals 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 to constructively create
opportunities for change through active participation. Continuous learning and curiosity.
● Proven ability to lead and influence people, both directly and indirectly, Able to
lead/execute change.

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
● 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 ( 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.

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