IT Business Consultant - Finance

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Purpose:
Sylvamo’s Enterprise Application Services organization exists to be in charge of designing, building, implementing, testing and sustaining enterprise software applications and services that improve business performance. The IT Business Consultant – Finance is responsible for designing and sustaining technology solutions that enable business processes in the areas of Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Account, and Capital, Asset & Plant Maintenance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for design, implementation, and sustain of enterprise SAP based Finance applications and related services which support Finance business functions.
• Lead efforts to understand, design, build, implement and sustain best practice Finance solutions
• Lead Design efforts to sustain and improve the business process.
• Work with users and team members to understand business processes and requirements.
• Review existing documentation to understand system design and implementation standards.
• Utilize knowledge of best practices to design IT solutions to meet new and evolving requirements.
• Oversee configuration of SAP to meet design specifications and business requirements.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert to recommend and implement solutions to drive improvements for the functional area. Evaluate alternative procedural and systematic solutions that meet needs while maintaining business standards.
• Provide SME expertise in Process Assessments, evaluate current and desired state.
• Consult with business users on system capabilities.
• Document solution requirements and alternative analysis.
• Recommend solutions to meet business requirements and standards.
• Collaborates with other Enterprise Application Services teams and external partners to achieve high quality integrated solutions.
• Plan and lead projects and overall designs, providing leadership and consulting to project teams to deliver project results. Track progress, communicate milestones and resolve issues.
• Works with business partners to support, identify, gather information, and develop solutions for existing sustain issues and new business requirements.
• Review designs and specifications.
• Develops functional requirements.
• Drives and organizes estimates for complex and integrated development of application solutions.
• Drives standardization of provided solutions.
• Tests highly integrated business solutions, ensuring quality and effectiveness.
• Support go-live and implementation of IT improvements.
• Communicates status and surfaces issues as needed.
• Embraces and promotes agility within the organization, uses Agile processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team.
• Oversees functional area application performance. Ensures service levels are consistent with business requirements and operational goals.
• Facilitates delivery of 24x7 application support, proactively reduces sustain efforts through monitoring, automation, and problem management.

Key Accountabilities:Strategic:

• Implement the vision and strategic goals for IT Finance systems.
• Builds relationships with business partners, identifying and structuring solutions to ensure alignment with their requirements.
• Build relationships with vendors to ensure effective utilization of partner capabilities and resources.

Customers:

• Ensures business solutions are designed, prototyped and tested to support customer needs by using consistent methods and standards, project management discipline and supporting toolsets.
• Provides leadership towards fulfilling on-time delivery commitments to customers.
• Develops relationships and collaborates with business partners to create value for Sylvamo customers.

Operational Excellence:

• Provides leadership and mentoring for continuous quality improvement.
• Maintains the integration and secures integrity of Finance Operating Model design and enabled benefits.
• Assumes a major role in the implementation of large, complex designs.
• Seeks out value added opportunities to improve IT Solutions and Services capabilities.

Knowledge and Experience:Functional Skills:

• 10 years IT experience.
• Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of the Finance Operating Model design and enabling technology.
• Project Management skills.
• Skilled in process management; can translate output of process assessments into clearly defined gap and proposed resolution.
• Strong negotiating and conflict management skills.
• Excellent vendor management skills.
• Broad and deep business process knowledge of the supply chain Operating Model; able to lead and contribute to design and build process and functional deliverables.

Technical Skills:

• BS or related required, Masters preferred (major in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration preferred).
• 10 Years SAP Financial modules
• Strong background in Finance process areas and Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Account, and Capital Assets.
• Depth, breadth, and technical experience in configuration and prototyping of multiple modules and applications of SAP and able to lead and participate in technical design and build discussions.
• Strong background in managing through complex methodologies.

Career Architect Leadership Competencies:Critical:

• Action Oriented
• Conflict Management
• Customer Focus
• Drive for Results
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Decision Quality
• Directing Others
• Integrity & Trust
• Organizing
• Perseverance
• Priority Setting
• Problem Solving
• Process Management
• Self Development
• Time Management
• Timely Decision Making
• Written Communications

Desirable:

• Managing through Systems
• Organizational Agility
• Presentation Skills
• Standing Alone

Sylvamo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.