Financial Systems Senior Manager; Oracle Cloud ERP

Financial Systems Senior Manager (Oracle Cloud ERP)

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The Financial Systems Senior Manager (FS Senior Manager) oversees and manages a team providing business support, reporting and analytic solutions for the effective use of financial systems and business process integrations that support the business functions of the organization. The role proactively implements and proposes financial system initiatives and solutions to business issues that improve organization system efficiency while adhering to overall system standards and strategy.

This position contributes to financial system strategies, engages cross‑functional area teams, helps maintain market competitiveness, and ensures accurate, reliable and efficient financial reporting, metrics, dashboards and analysis.

• Participates in the evaluation of software and hardware products for potential purchase and implementation based on analyzing business problems and assessing how technology can solve them.
• Determines the resources needed to plan and implement financial system solutions, collaborates with end users and provides software suggestions and recommendations to business owners and management.
• Manages projects effectively, including directing the day‑to‑day tasks and activities of cross‑functional teams, tracking and reporting project tasks, scope, priorities and deadlines, and deliverable schedules.
• Ensures documentation is developed to meet project deliverables and schedules.
• Manages, monitors and effectively communicates project budgets, including tracking of internal costs and third‑party vendor costs.
• Supervises, coaches and mentors Financial Systems Manager (FS Manager) or Analyst (FS Analyst), and participates in the resolution of third‑party support issues, budgets and updates to ensure the Firm's business processes are represented and not broken.
• Leads the gathering of functional requirements for approved projects, collaborates with business owners to define business requirements in business acumen and translates requirements into functional technical specifications.
• Accurately formulates and defines the objectives and scope of business systems, and assesses the risks of the development of financial system solutions.
• Makes recommendations and presentations to senior management to gain support of new projects and applications, preparing for and participating in presentations to business owners seeking new technology within financial system solutions.
• Provides leadership and project management for the functional set up of business applications, including system updates, upgrades and the implementation of new applications.
• Ensures effective communication from business acumen translation to technical/functional acumen to meet business requirements.
• Leads FS Manager or FS Analyst in the successful resolution of complex transactional issues, performing research, identifying root cause and using data integrity reports and other information provided by business owners.
• Leads and manages the deployment of existing finance systems to other firms, promoting one unified system.
• Actively coordinates, participates and manages problem resolution related to disaster recovery, reporting and dashboards.
• Communicates financial system vernacular into meaningful business acumen with business owners, management and executives.
• Collaborates with management across the organization to understand business owners' workstream system gaps, and identify and prioritize system gaps between the firm’s current state and industry best practices.
• Documents and shares financial system insights with cross‑functional financial system teams and management for building system related skills and knowledge.
• Manages, delivers and participates in implementing new finance systems, functionality or data analytics mechanisms into existing systems, integrating them with legacy systems where it drives end‑user efficiency while maintaining a cost‑competitive footprint.
• Coordinates, assembles and trains team members on processes to conform to general audit controls on system projects,…