Principal Application Specialist, Finance Applications (Oracle EBS)

This position provides an opportunity to help drive next generation financial systems operations across the European region while also engaging within a global IT Finance team. It will require an individual who is focused on building strong partnerships and delivering the best possible outcomes to their stakeholders. They must be process oriented, with the ability to assess both technical and functional considerations and apply that accordingly. The ideal candidate should possess an accomplished track record combined with the tenacity, self-confidence and proven ability to continually grow and contribute to a global business. She/he must feel comfortable working in, as well as embracing, an environment that is both changing and challenging. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated, team player who will bring instant credibility with demonstrated ability to communicate across all levels of the organization. She/he must be technically astute with the ability to troubleshoot complex applications with multiple integrations. She/he must be a “quick read” in regard to new concepts and technologies.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Business Partnering
• Business partner, representing IT Finance, and contribute to ensuring financial systems continuity.
• Support all European based business processes associated with IT Finance. Evaluate, define, refine and document accordingly.
• Working with Finance Shared Services team to support issue identification and resolution.
• Assist with the management of demand and business expectations of IT Finance.
• Participate in estimation and sizing of potential efforts as well as the business prioritization processes.

2. Support
• Partner with teams responsible for application support services to all Financial end users and engage in Level-3 tier support.
• Support problem resolution related to application issue escalation across the global user base; includes working with a globally diverse cross functional team
• Assist in the process to educate and train local finance user community on IT Finance applications.
• Develop, analyze, and report operational metrics

3. Delivery
• Ensure processes are continuously followed and refined to maintain stability - execute all activities following organizational controls and processes (i.e. software development life-cycle (SDLC), change management, etc)
• Collaborate across the global IT Finance team on all process, support, delivery, etc.

At Biogen we focus not only on results but also on how we achieve our success. As part of our Culture of Excellence we stress the value of collaboration as we strive to Care Deeply, Work Fearlessly, and Change Lives.
The successful candidate will demons

Europe represents a major portion of the Biogen organization and drives a significant amount of Finance Shared Services efforts leading to exciting opportunities within the organization. This role will support the IT Finance organization in delivering the highest quality of service to its user base with a focus on Europe and Finance Shared Services.