Sr. Manager-IS Financial Systems

Westlake Management Services Inc. in Houston, TX seeks Sr. Manager – IS Financial Systems. Worksite: 5444 Westheimer Road, Suite 700, Houston, TX 77056. Must put job code (R32302) on resume and on cover letter.

• Facilitate prioritization and allocation of capital and expense budgets for IS Financial System Projects and Application Support.

• Liaise with Accounting & Finance stakeholders (C level executives, Controllership team, Segment Controllers, etc.);
  Business Units; and IS leadership team to develop a 3 to 5 year, rolling, strategic roadmap for Westlake Financial business processes and associated applications.

• Facilitate delivery of IS Financial System Projects that meet business requirements, at the highest Economic Value Added (EVA) return, on time and within budget.

• Oversee the IS Major Financial System Project Portfolio process by monitoring and reporting on active IS projects as well as strategic planning with management on the overall project roadmap.

• Provide oversight of IS project estimating, budgeting, planning and scheduling.

• Provide project status updates that include execution against plan and deviation analysis, and maintain a project repository that contains all standardized project progress reports and issues tracking.

• Manage and/or provide guidance to employees of the IS SAP/BPC Application Team.

• Create or support the creation of required reports in response to business user and IT management's needs.

• Establish and maintain communications with business sponsors and business owners to ensure user satisfaction is maintained.

• Manage and resolve support requests in compliance with annual Application Support goals and service levels for SAP & BPC.

• Oversee operations and maintenance of SAP and BPC functions including relevant configuration and work closely with the IS Technical team, who is responsible for ABAP Development and other non-SAP application development, to ensure secure and reliable operations as well as Application Architecture consistency and integrity.

• Oversee operations and maintenance of third-party applications interfaced with the SAP system and primarily used by the Accounting & Finance Organization such as Black Line, Lease Accelerator, Get Paid, Integrity, Vertex, Concur, etc.

• Develop and maintain a resource plan to ensure that projects are properly staffed and that financial systems are adequately supported.

• Demonstrate change management capabilities to ensure effective adoption of new and existing financial system solutions across Westlake companies.

• Monitor operation of critical SAP and BPC Processes and Services.

• Review, approve and test software updates.

• Provide Project Management for related service requests for new systems, functionality, upgrades, etc.

• Conduct research and make recommendations on Business Application products, services, and standards in support of new business requirements.

• Monitor new financial technology trends and work with business users to introduce the appropriate solutions.

• Regarding security: enforce established SAP, BPC and other Application Security access controls; review Security Profile changes to ensure private and sensitive data is protected; and coordinate or perform application and security audits.

• Understand and follow Standard System Life Cycle Methods, Quality Assurance Testing and Sarbanes Oxley Program Change Controls.

• Coordinate and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to the SAP and BPC Application environments.

• Ensure training materials and user skills are current and coordinate necessary user training.

• Any and all other assignments as required.

• Minimum Education al Requirement:
  Bachelor's degree in Accounting.

• Minimum Experience Requirement:
  Exp. as Mgr SAP FICO Consultant;
  Mgr SAP BPC Consultant or other title/occupation in which 5 yrs of SAP FICO exp. in ECC 6.0 EHP 8 or >; 5 yrs of SAP BPC exp. in Net Weaver
  10.01 or > was gained.

• Alternate Requirements:
  Exp. as Mgr SAP FICO Consultant;
  Mgr SAP BPC Consultant or other title/occupation in which 7 yrs of SAP FICO exp. in ECC 6.0 EHP 8 or >; 7 yrs of SAP BPC exp. in Net Weaver
  10.01 or > was gained.

• Travel Requirement:
  Up to 25% Domestic and International.

• Partial telecommuting - 2 days per week.

Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.