Deloitte Looking for Finance and Enterprise Performance – Finance Technology Enablement Manager at Dallas, TX Full Time

Work you’ll do

Are you passionate about finance transformation and delivering technology-driven finance solutions? If so, we’d like to speak with you!

As the Technology Enablement Manager on our Finance & Enterprise Performance team, you will work with Finance Executives to assess the impact of large scale ERP enablement on end-to-end Finance processes, align to an overall vision for the future of the Finance organization, and design and deliver solutions driven by technology enablement. You will act as the Finance advocate and provide finance functional expertise on large scale ERP and EPM deployments.

As the Manager, you will establish and be the ongoing leader of a team of Finance and IT professionals that will ensure Finance guiding principles and strategic priorities are consistently aligned to when designing and deploying ERP/system solutions encompassing one or more of the following platforms: SAP, Oracle, Workday, industry standard tools (Ariba, Coupa, Salesforce, OpenText) and data governance. In parallel, you will oversee a team of technical employees who will implement the ERP system, as well as other related ERP products.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Acting as the bridge between Finance Executives, Solution Architects, and technical/IT practitioners to ensure Finance priorities are understood and aligned to

• Establishing and Managing the IT Operations processes and working model in support of the ERP driven transformation (intake, working model, SLAs, etc.)

• Leading the documentation of Finance requirements, current and future state processes, alignment to standard functionality (e.g., fit/gap, automated vs manual processes), and impacts to the Finance business teams

• Designing Finance data models to support ERP and boarder Finance requirements (CoA, cost centers, profit centers, products, customers, etc.)

• Ensuring implementation of post-production support model and processes

• Identifying and implementing KPIs and metrics for the new ERP ecosystem

Analysis of Finance Organization, Operating Model, and Processes:

• Finance capability and maturity assessment

• Finance visioning, business case, and roadmap development

• Service delivery model strategy

• Capital allocation strategy

• Finance organization design

Analysis and optimization of processes and policies through the lens of ERP enablement, specific to:

• Planning, budgeting, and forecasting (Corporate)

• Business Unit Finance

• Record to Report process

• Order to Cash

• Procure to Pay

• Management reporting and analytics design

• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) design

In this role, you will provide service excellence by working with key client executives to identify and align to a vision for Finance and leading teams driving the enablement of Finance in alignment to the vision. This would include the following:

• Determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches

• Evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement

• Implementing and overseeing the quality of deliverables and effectively managing the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance

• Participating in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities

• Leading small engagements or components of large, complex engagements

The team

Finance & Enterprise Performance

Our Finance & Enterprise Performance team works as a trusted advisor to CFOs, COOs, CIOs, and key executives. We advise, implement, and deliver as-a-service solutions, helping our clients develop strategies and capabilities to support enterprise-wide decision-making, improve finance operations, and create impact within their organization.

Qualifications

Required:

• 8+ years’ experience working in Finance organizations or consulting setting, advising CFO’s on one or more of the following areas: finance transformation, process improvements, financial planning redesign, service delivery model design and implementation

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university

• Practical experience in Finance Service Delivery, Finance Operations, FP&A, Finance Strategy, or EPM

• Experience leading or managing teams and change initiatives (especially in a project management role)

• Experience developing a vision for the Finance organization and leading the large scale transformations encompassing finance process redesign, service delivery model development, and technology implementations.

• Strong Finance functional expertise in at least one ERP (SAP, Oracle, Workday) and/or EPM (SAP, Oracle, Workday (Adaptive), OneStream, Anaplan).

• Strong understanding of ERP or EPM capabilities aligned to at least one critical business process (Record to Report, Order to Collect, Procure to Pay, Specialized Finance, FP&A)

• Deep understanding of ERP and/or EPM capabilities and the ability to align ‘out of box’ functionality with desired Finance future state capabilities

• Understanding and experience with system deployment methodologies (Agile, Hybrid Agile, Waterfall)

• Experience in ERP and EPM design, fit gap, and UAT processes

• Experience with ‘Finance in a Digital World’ technologies such as process automation through robotics, predictive analytics and visualization etc.

• Must live within commuting distance to one of Deloitte’s consulting offices

• Travel – at least 50% (While 50% of travel is a requirement of the role, due to COVID-19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice.)

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Preferred:

• Experience with Agile program delivery

• Ability to translate technology functionality into process improvements

• Ability to define and dialogue on benefits of technology solutions and how work would change as a result

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.