The role will actively participate & support various global process improvements. It will support the end-to-end process for the successful implementation and embedding of a new Financial Planning application.
Responsibilities
- Understanding the project scope, schedule, deliverables; and working closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations
- Partnering across organisational functions (Finance, Production, R&D, Procurement, HR, etc) to define existing business processes
- Elicit functional and technical application & process requirements through dialogue with business partners and key stakeholders
- Create and engage with a shortlist of suitable suppliers to create proposals including agreeing NDA's
- Work with stakeholders to create selection criteria, procure RFP's, review proposals and onboard suppliers
- Create project charters, resource estimates, project plans and work breakdowns etc
- Ensure suitable Project Governance is in place and manage all facets of Project Management through to completion
- Supports applications and solutions delivery by participating in design reviews and walk-throughs to communicate requirements and validate proposed solutions
- Performs impact analysis and supports application testing, implementation, and training activities throughout the process.
- Reporting, analysing, and resolving issues related to the implementation, stakeholders, and project operations that may impact service quality; ensuring that stakeholders' questions and problems are resolved properly and quickly
- Document existing processes and drive consistency across entities through policy implementation
Skillset & Experience
- Degree in Accounting, Finance or qualified by experience
- Experience with the full life cycle end to end implementation of ERP/financial systems preferably M365 & Dassault (PLM) especially on Production modules
- Experience in leveraging technology to improve business and finance processes
- Demonstrable experience and formal Project Management Qualifications, Ability to manage multiple work streams, conflicting priorities, differing reporting lines, multi-site projects as well as scope change and risk
- Excellent stakeholder, people management, coaching and leadership skills
- Experience working in an Agile environment is desirable
- Ability to grasp issues of a business nature and assess the technical and process impact relating to the project
- Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
- Solid demonstrable ERP experience delivering successful projects
- A project management or ERP implementation qualification (Prince2, Agile PM, PMP)
- Understanding of core FP&A & business processes
- Having previously worked in a finance environment is desirable