Finance and Performance Mgt

Responsibilities

Lend specific subject matter knowledge to the design and integration phase of each project, helping to give specificity to the appropriate architecture, data model, and system design and interfacing requirements.

Advise clients on a variety of business process services that help identify, assess, manage and measure the organizations capabilities. Use business process, organizational and technology capabilities and knowledge across several of the following focus areas:

Finance Strategy (Vision, Mission , Guiding Principles)

Enterprise Data Management/Reference Data Management

Financial Accounting and Reporting Operations/Technology

Reinsurance Accounting and Reporting Operations/Technology

Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting Operations/Technology

Performance Management and Measurement (KPIs, business driver-based metrics)

General Ledger/ERP Systems Features/Functionality

Data Warehousing Features/Functionality

Statutory Reporting Systems Features/Functionality

Enterprise Technology Expense Reduction

Team with client technology professionals, and/or third-party strategic alliances to provide implementation of technology solutions .

Participate in engagement management, engagement execution and reporting, and client relationship building and management.

Qualifications

To qualify, candidates must have:

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, accounting, finance or a related field (MBA or MS degree preferred)
• A minimum of 2-5 years of relevant experience at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services company. We will consider candidates withless years of relevant experience if they possess an advanced degree.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and supervise a team of technology advisors through all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture design, conversion and testing
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology skills
• Ability and comfort level researching client inquiries and emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices, and new technologies
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50%-70%

The successful candidate should possess strong knowledge of and experience in supervising and executing all phases of the technology life cycle, based on proven project management and testing methodologies. It is essential that the successful candidate possess a deep knowledge of technical architecture design and have a good understanding of technology tools and components to reasonably argue for and against all components (middleware, database, reporting tools, etc.) in financial systems architecture.

Department Specifics:
The Tech Enablement F&PM team, which helps our clients enhance the operating effectiveness of the finance and operations functions by assisting them as they shift their emphasis from transaction-level control, processing and reporting to more value driven, decision support and analytics.

For Finance and Performance Management:

Individuals with experience in the following areas:
o Definition of business and technical requirements
o Design of business and technology architecture
o System selection and implementation support
o Data mapping and conversion
o Proof of concept
o Quality assurance and testing
o Business and IT process reengineering
o Program/project management and implementation planning (PMO)

Note Individuals should have strong technical experience (multiple project multiple years) in these disciplines or deep financial services technology and process familiarity

Project experiences :
o Finance transformation & accelerated close
o Sub-ledger/ledger redesign
o Management reporting enhancement
o Business intelligence/decision support
o Traded products/front/back office package implementation
o Data warehousing/enterprise data design & management
o Enterprise application integration
o Financial planning, budgeting and forecasting
o Business/Merger Integration
o Reconciliation redesign or improvement

Application/Package experience:
o Business Objects
o Cartesis
o Clarity
o Cognos
o Hyperion
o Oracle Financials
o Peoplesoft Financials
o SunGard financial packages
o Intellimatch
o Smart Steam
Note Individuals should have implementation or deep production support experience