Home Depot Looking for Director Finance – One Finance at Atlanta, GA Full Time

POSITION PURPOSE

One Finance is a multilayer, multiyear enterprise initiative to Simplify The Home Depot’s Financial Systems landscape, Transform Finance Function and Support the success of One Home Depot vision. Delivering on One Finance objectives are critical and foundational for achieving the Interconnected Retail experience.

The Home Depot’s Finance Systems landscape, consisting of heavily customized applications on disparate platforms and databases, is complex and outdated. The current version of the core Finance System, SAP ECC, will go out of support and will be migrated to SAP S/4HANA on the Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, the business transformation mandate requires end-to-end process streamlining and standardization, simplifying the Finance function, supporting enhanced analytics and enabling highly flexible reporting through “One Ledger” architecture.

In order to deliver these mission critical objectives, One Finance is structured as a fully dedicated Program Office within the Finance division, with the following functions:

• Program and Change Management

• Overall responsibility to continually refine, measure and deliver planned business value

• Program Governance to manage scope, budget, risks, and ensure quality and value realization

• Proactively manage change across all areas and levels to ensure change readiness and process / technology adoption

• Business Process Applications

• Overall responsibility to

• Influence and drive end-to-end process streamlining and standardization based on industry leading best practices

• Build consensus and drive decision-making by engaging the appropriate Business and IT stakeholders, at the right time and in the right forum(s)

• Deliver application / system functionalities that are configured to support process simplification and provide better data insights

• Manage and deliver planned business value for the assigned functional area(s) within the four work streams (discussed below).

• Assess and utilize emerging Industry 4.0 technologies

• Act as Business Process Subject Matter Experts (SME) in assigned area(s) within Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Finance API, and Innovation work streams.

• Liaise effectively with –

• Cross-functional stakeholders in managing design and scope decisions, and up-stream inter-dependencies

• IT stakeholders in configuring / developing technical solutions and testing strategies that satisfy business requirements

• Internal Audit and Finance Integration stakeholders on identifying and mitigating Security and Controls risks

• Serve the role of a Product Manager to groom stories, prioritize backlog, lead agile ceremonies

The five workstreams and relevant functional areas or scope are shown below –

• Record to Report (RTR): Master Data Design, Management and Governance, One Ledger Architecture; Cost Accounting; Financial Accounting; External Financial and Managerial Reporting; Acquire-to-Retire; Project Accounting; and Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Procure to Pay (PTP): Purchase and Inventory Accounting – Tracking, valuation and recordation of inventory movements from vendors through Supply Chain; Merchandise and Non-Merchandise Procurement, Payables and Payments (scope includes migrating Ariba and Concur T&E to cloud); and operational / managerial reporting

• Order to Cash (OTC): Sales Revenue Accounting; Accounts Receivable and Credit Collections; and operational / managerial reporting

• Finance API (API): Design, develop and deliver loosely coupled Common Services / API’s for enterprise systems to consume.

• Innovation: Follow trends and assess the viability of emerging technologies, such as BlockChain, IoT, and AI/ML. Influence the utilization and broader adoption within the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducts financial planning and forecasting for the functional area.

• Conducts Pro-Forma Financial Analysis.

• Develops and executes cost controls.

• Identifies process improvement opportunities to drive profitability and develops improvement strategies.

• Responsible for appropriate selection, performance appraisals, termination and professional development of assigned staff.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to the Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis and Functional Leader

• Accountable for the management of a department or functional group through subordinate supervisors/managers and for all personnel issues — including selection, termination, performance appraisal and professional development of subordinates.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience working in large, matrixed Retail organization

• 5 years of focused experience in Business Process Re-engineering, Standardization and Continuous Improvement

• Exposure enterprise architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF

• Demonstrated ability to partner with the business to drive process and technology transformation

• Proven ability to work effectively with IT and Business stakeholders and delivering value

• Demonstrated experience in managing complexities of competing priorities and program inter-dependencies

• Strong business acumen; experience implementing financial processes and systems with an ability to discriminate between symptoms and root causes.

• Track record as an excellent facilitator capable of influencing people over which he / she has no authority

• Ability to direct, coach and mentor functional managers, analysts and other junior members of the team.

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 8

Competencies:

• Knowledge of Finance and Accounting Principles and Practices.

• Business Planning/Strategy Setting experiencw.

• Budgeting, Financial Planning and Financial Modeling skills.

• Knowledge of International Business and Finance.

• Ability to Interact with all levels of associates.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.