COMEX: CFO

Business Unit: Hub EMEA

Department: SAP Competency Center

Location / HUB: Paris / EMEA

Reports to:

N+1: Deputy Head of SAP CC

N+2: Head of SAP CC

Double reporting line (if applicable): N/A

People management responsibility: Yes

Job Summary

Under the lead of the Deputy Head of the SAP Competency Center, the SAP CC Senior Manager is responsible of the following:

• Support of the One GL platform maintenance and evolution and Finance projects lead with the Core SAP GL solutions
• Effective contrition to management of the SAP Competency Center SMEs (internal and external)
• Ensure & monitor Business as Usual high-level support for 1GL maintenance, evolutions & user support with high quality service
• Project estimation and management of Finance projects and applications integration
  
  
  

The SAP Competency Center

Our customer is an independent company in the bank-finance-insurance sector, working on a global scale through its 35 locations on five continents and its 4 Hubs located in Paris-London, Zurich-Cologne, New York, and Singapore.

Financial department is organized between the 4 hubs and 3 divisions.

The Group Finance SAP Competency Center team is located in Paris (8 internals), Zurich (2 internals) and New York (1 internal) and also manages around 60 external consultants (onsite and/or nearshore).

The Group Finance SAP Competency Center mandate is mainly to:

• Maintain the “1GL” applications (enhancement and maintenance): SAP S/4 + addons, EPM, Analytics incl. reporting solutions and interfaces
• Monitor and execute SAP Basis activities (excl. OS and Infra management)
• Manage projects for evolutions and reengineering initiatives
• Provide management, analytical and operational capabilities within a unified and best-practices oriented Finance Platform
• Secure Finance platform integrity and operability
• Ensure process maintenance & evolution through all chain of activities
• Support projects and innovation
• Support Finance community at large
• Implement robust, proven, and certified technologies only
• Monitor and increase operational excellence, efficiency & response time
• Maximize agility and flexibility, time to market, scalability, and user empowerment
• Increase automated controls and monitoring of the platform
  
  
  

Key Duties And Responsibilities

The position reports to the Deputy Head of SAP CC.

The primary responsibilities are:

• Providing support, guidance and expertise for the SAP Competency Center Accounting Solutions projects at large. Accounting solutions include SAP S/4 (FI-GL, AA, AP&AR, CFM, TRM, MM, CO) as well as Ariba, Readsoft and Concur.
• Ensuring the maintenance in operational conditions of the Core 1GL solution by:
• Coordinating BAU activities with evolutions and projects delivery
• Assisting teams when needed and provide expertise
• Ensuring a 360° vision of ongoing activities on Core SAP Accounting Solutions scope to anticipate and monitor potential conflicts – propose action plans if needed
• Managing Finance process definition and system customization
• Ensuring the documentation maintenance as projects and evolutions are delivered
• Project estimation and management of initiatives from simple to very complex
• Advertise excellence through improving the operational excellence of the department
• Mitigate risk with experts’ availability (grow and shrink management)
  
  

The position will also require to:

• Communicate, educate, and help market SAP 1GL to the business and IT leads within the organization
• Assist in arbitrating, escalating, and resolving any project or Business As Usual related issues
• Be customer oriented with a strong reliability on deadlines
  
  
  

Member of the following committees: e.g. Audit committee, Investment committee…

N/A

Required Experience & Competencies

Experience:

• Strong experience in SAP project implementation & solution maintenance – preferably within consulting companies or banking/insurance industry of 15+ years
• Ability to understand both business and technology drivers and challenges
• Proven project management skills for both tools and methodologies
• Strong knowledge of Finance and Accounting principles to support the internal Finance community at large
• Experience of working in a global environment / global SAP Competency Center
• Ability to drive highly skilled experts and provide a clear roadmap
• Technologies oriented: SAP ERP modern platforms (i.e S/4HANA) and global SAP ecosystem roadmaps
• Ability to communicate & write in French and English
  
  
  

Personal competencies:

• Management skills / Project management
• Well organized, reliable with deadlines, efficient, analytical
  
  
  

Soft skills:

• Good communication / presentation skills with top management
  
  
  

Digital competencies:

• MS Office Suite
• SAP Solutions portfolio and roadmap knowledge
  
  
  

Managerial competenties (if applicable):

• Multicultural management experience is a strong plus
• Act as a leader and a model, applying the same level of expectations to your deliverables than what you expect from your team
  
  
  

Required Education

• Master degree in business or finance
  
  
  

Required Languages

Level

Levels

Oral

Written

• No proficiency in this language required.
• Has enough vocabulary for simple conversations. Understands simple text and notes. Participation in a meeting is not yet possible.
• Can attend but not participate in team meetings and engage in simple, short telephone conversations. Can write short memos and simple messages.
• Can take part in discussions on familiar subjects in meetings. Can write memos, simple letters and reports.
• Can actively participate in meetings and group conversations. Can lead negotiations. Writes complex business letters and reports.
• Can lead discussions and negotiations at the highest level. Writes complex reports. Rarely makes grammatical mistakes.
  
  
  

French

5

5

English

5

5

German

0

0

Italian

0

0

Spanish

0

0

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