Finance Business Stream lead / Project lead

FINANCE BUSINESS STREAM LEAD / PROJECT LEAD
Our client, a world-class company in semiconductor development and in-house production is looking for some to thier team:

The Finance Business Stream lead / Project lead is the ‘key person’ between our client Finance Business members and IT Finance solution experts. He/she will act as a workstream lead / project lead to manage a team of approx. 8-10 Finance business professionals and 2 finance IT solution experts. He/she has to take the leaderships role and a persuasive style to get a complex solution realized with the existing time frame.

TASKS

• Organize the Finance Business workstream, create workstream planning, maintains actions lists, decisions register, participates in alignment sessions with the other workstreams in the project. Monitor progress and intervene when applicable to secure the timely delivery of the result.

• Adapt and get understanding from the AAAS process concepts specifically from finance point of view and the integration with supply chain management.

• Organize and execute all required activities to deliver answers to project questions/issues to get clarifications so IT and business can continue with planned activities

• Create, challenge and validate provided solutions for the project together with business and IT

• Realization of UAT test scripts, organize a proper user acceptance testing, cut-over activities and hand-over to operations

• Reports to Project Manager AAAS and Business IT Information Manager Finance

Relationships with

• Business representatives: to identify requirements and to discuss pros and cons of various solutions and to organize user acceptance.

• Architect: to align solution designs with enterprise and solution architecture principles.

• Project Manager: to define the scope, timing and resource requirements of activities.

• IT: realization of the processes within the system and understand the way of working to explain to business participants.

• Operations: to hand-over new or changed solutions and to provide support to the business in operation.

• Other workstream leads: to identify ways to deliver a working and accepted integral solution

PROFILE

• Bachelor’s / Master degree in IT, Business Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Finance, or related field, or equivalent industry experience required

• 10+ years of relevant Finance IT experience in applications management

• Extensive knowledge on the specific way business processes are designed and executed in the Semiconductor Industry in the Finance, Controlling and Consolidation area.

• Thorough understanding of SAP application governance, SAP developments and integration with other software

• Thorough understanding of Finance, Controlling and Consolidation processes and systems, esp. SAP FI-CO

• Extensive knowledge and/or implementation experience with complex product costing solutions (COPC) is a plus

• Knowledge of other SAP modules (e.g. FICO, MM, SD) and the flexibility of supporting other team members in those areas is a plus

• Experience with preparing and executing User Acceptance testing, proactive approach and willing to participate to get the work done

• Ability to collaborate and partner with business and IT in defining, preparing and executing projects and changes by participating in the work to be done

• Excellent communication skills, able to liaise with business partners

• Team player

• Strong decision making skills, combined with sufficient sensitivity for the situation

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

• Good prioritization skills and flexible to adapt plans

• An ability to work to tight deadlines and within constraints , hands-on mentality

• Language skills: fluent English and Dutch, German is a plus

• No 8 to 5 mentality, drive together with the team towards the planned project result