Manager, IT - Finance

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company. We’re focused on exciting opportunities within the home, security and commercial building markets. Our driving purpose is to elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

At Fortune Brands, we’re building something big. We’re advancing exciting innovations in all of our products and processes. We’re delivering trust, dependability, sustainability, and style. To make it all happen, we’ve transformed our workplace into an environment where smart, ambitious people have the support to reach their fullest potential.

When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

Explore life at Fortune Brands here.

Job Location:

This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule based out of Deerfield, IL. Effective mid-2025, Fortune Brands will transition to a new world-class campus in Deerfield, bringing together associates from across our U.S. offices, brands, and functions. The campus will offer vibrant work spaces for collaboration, along with amenities for dining, onsite daycare, fitness and recreation.

• Act as a key liaison between Information Technology (IT) and cross-functional business leaders, primarily Finance, for assigned units and vendors, ensuring alignment on strategic initiatives.
• Oversee the functional and technical design of financial systems, including configuration, application development, and support for global SAP deployments and continuous improvements.
• Design comprehensive test plans to assess infrastructure, security, technical developments, and functional configurations, providing actionable recommendations for enhancements.
• Lead design sessions to prototype new systems aimed at improving business processes, operations, and information flow across the ERP platform.
• Conduct feasibility studies for new systems, evaluating and selecting third‑party software and vendors, while participating in "buy vs. build" decision‑making processes.
• Contribute to the design of complex system and process architecture, including integration requirements and specification documentation.
• Proactively develop and conduct training on SAP functionalities and finance business processes to enhance user proficiency.
• Foster effective communication between business users and application developers to address key issues, resolve perception gaps, and clarify questions.
• Adhere to established change management and service management policies and procedures to ensure compliance and consistency.
• Manage both small and large project schedules, tracking progress and providing timely updates on issues impacting project timelines, while coordinating actions and resolving conflicts.
• Lead small‑scale projects independently, managing stakeholders, budgets, project planning, and execution to achieve on‑time delivery and meet budget KPIs.
• Drive the execution of major strategic initiatives by ensuring financial system and process readiness through effective design, development, testing, and change management.
• Manage and develop a team of functional and technical resources, as well as external staff augmentation, to achieve operational KPIs and goals.
• Measure and track operational metrics, reporting performance and risk assessments to senior management regularly.
• Gain a deep understanding of internal customers' business processes, key drivers of success, and both short‑ and long‑term business and technology directions.
• Prioritize business demands for team capacity across strategic initiatives, operational support, and continuous improvements; develop estimates for upcoming projects and enhancements.
• Identify and propose business solutions, negotiating deliverables and requirements across various business…