Sr. Manager IT - Finance

If working for an organization with a long history of technological innovation and high advancement potential in a supportive, collaborative, and positive work environment are top considerations for your next career move, then you need to look at the opportunities at Bourns.

Bourns was founded 75 years ago with the guiding principles of providing breakthrough technology solutions, high-quality products, responsive service, and exceptional value. Those principles still hold true today and have instilled a culture that is committed to excellence and ethical operations. As a leading provider of advanced components for power conversion, circuit protection, and motion control sensing solutions, Bourns employs more than 9,000 people in 21 countries and operates 17 manufacturing centers and 15 R&D facilities.

Our customers and partners rely on Bourns to meet strict design requirements and satisfy international standards in a broad range of industries and applications. We achieve this stature because Bourns employees excel in the development of new products and continuous improvement processes that keep the company a global leader in delivering outstanding service.

Working under limited supervision, leads and provides application support for the SAP S/4

HANA Finance, Controlling, and Group Reporting/Business & Management Consolidation processes globally for the Company. Oversees small to large scale projects which may span multiple functional areas within and external to the Information Technology function. Provides support for operational packages and/or applications that are in-house or purchased, developed, designed, or implemented. Completes evaluations of special or assigned new software studies. Consults with users to determine needs and define user software and/or hardware requirements.

Determines feasibility of software to fulfill user requirements and ensures that software is cost effective, business related and operationally compatible. Works under the general direction of the CIO.

• Acts as a liaison between departmental end-users and programming staff in the analysis, design, functional configuration, testing and maintenance of the SAP and non-SAP suite of products to support product development and implementation to ensure optimal system performance.
• Interfaces with business users (such as the CFO, Corporate and Worldwide Controllers, Accounting staff, etc.) to interpret and clarify complex functional configuration details and process change requirements involving all SAP and non-SAP Modules required to support manufacturing operations, with emphasis on SAP modules:
  Financial Accounting, Controlling, and Group Reporting/Business Consolidations.
• Oversees the performance of the Finance IT team members and consultants to ensure that the team is consistently delivering at the highest level of quality, on time and on budget.
• Performs complex unit and integration testing for assigned modules, within multiple functional areas, from development to production.
• Troubleshoots configuration, performs upgrades and functional changes to ensure optimum system performance.
• Develops and proposes new ideas and advancements of new software concepts in support of Bourns corporate goals and objectives.
• Interfaces with functional unit process owners and users to identify, define, and document operational needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements and levels of system access.
• Conducts, directs, and coordinates efforts relating to special or assigned new software studies and/or evaluations that fulfills requirements, are cost effective, business related, and operationally compatible, when necessary.
• Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates in-house or purchased, developed, designed, implemented and/or operational packages and/or applications for overall department, inter-department, organizational and company effectiveness in satisfying short-range and long-term goals.
• Tracks and documents changes to complex functional and business specifications and writes detailed procedures that can be easily understood by end-users.
• Trains users and supports training in the usage of the SAP modules, systems, and functionality, specifically in the areas of SAP Finance, Costing (Controlling) and Group Reporting/Consolidations.
• Maintains problems and project information in the Service Desk / Help Desk database.
• Maintains effective and cooperative working relationships with process owners, functional and technical team members and users
• Ensures all plans are clearly communicated with regular status reports and issue identification to business and IT management.
• Is responsible for communication of operational documentation and processes to the IT Operations and Help Desk Organizations.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business,…