Finance Business Process Manager

Responsibilities:

• Financial process functional and systems design - Facilitate the development of approaches and solutions required to implement business process transformations and improvements. 
• Provide input on latest technological and business development trends and lead benchmarking activities. 
• Engage in multiple business process development or improvement projects as a team lead or individual contributor.
• Manage the documentation of the “to-be” processes, defining performance metrics and identifying and exploiting process opportunities.  This includes process analysis, functional and logical system design and implementation. 
• Responsible for mapping the business processes to SAP and management of user acceptance testing.
• Project Management – Supports project proposal development, including discovery, statement of work creation, (including project requirements, risk, time and cost of project) and identification of the technical approach and key deliverables of a given project. 
• Responsible for managing specific components of a project/program, including conducting blueprint sessions, setting milestones, reviewing progress, reporting status, supporting resource allocations and resolving conflicts. 
• Ensure project teams are managing the system development and deployment processes according to Hershey standards. Supports management of communications, change management, and training.
• Business Partner relationship management - Develop relationships with Finance business leaders. Understand their concerns, requirements and priorities to improve alignment and accelerate execution of business strategies.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements:

• BS Degree in Finance/Accounting, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering
• Masters Degree in Business Administration or related experience is preferred.
• Seven to ten years of Finance/Accounting and systems experience including process design and development of large-scale ERP systems across multiple hardware and software platforms; significant experience and knowledge in SAP or ERP integrated environment.
• Consulting experience with major consulting firm, where consultative skills have been demonstrated through process definition and delivery of results is a strong plus.
• Three to five years of experience in project management and execution involving major development projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with internal business partners
• Successfully developed and implemented process changes and applications in new computing architecture environments using new and emerging technologies.
• Established track record of working with technical staff through various life-cycle phases
• Demonstrated leadership and collaboration on high performance work teams/groups
• Managed financial resources to meet goals and multiple projects
• Demonstrated experience in project management.
• Developed efficient and effective global solutions to diverse and complex business problems.

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