Head of Applications

Required Technical Expertise:

• Strong experience with Applications, namely: SAP, Concur, OneStream
• Background in a Finance and IT environment
• Knowledge of peripheral applications intrinsic to the financial applications eg, payroll, revenue, engineering, payments

Job Description:

• Lead and manage the Finance Applications team.
• Provide finance application support and development to the business units on a value adding basis.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to the senior business stakeholders.
• Manage suppliers to support the delivery of Finance applications.
• Team management
• Managing a first line response support desk in line with SLAs
• Working on projects and programmes as SME.
• Work with suppliers and internal teams to manage system changes in a robust and compliant manner.
• Managing the Finance applications through a product life cycle, ensuring compliance with security and audit requirements.
• Supporting improved business practices and processes through an effective governance framework.
• Support senior stakeholders in developing strategy and improvement plans for their business areas.
• Implement a governance framework to review issues, agree and implement best practice solutions.
• Work with other teams in IT to advise on changes and deliver improvements.
• Manage supplier delivery to SLAs and contracts, build relationships and review service on a regular basis.