Job Description

The IT Business Partner&PMO Finance Shared Service Centers position will work with seasoned IT
partners to company global functions in Source to Pay Platforms, to ensure technical milestones are
followed with documentations, solution designs, financial/budget/resource breakdown, and signed-off
alignments with CoC teams and responsible application owners for resourcing readiness and project
timelines of system implementation, go-live, hypercare, and post-production support.

S/he/they will serve as the main Core IT contact to Shared Service Centers leaders and manage
stakeholder expectations. S/he/they will provide technical expertise that can bridge between business
processes and IT applications by translating business needs into functional and technical requirements;
lay out executable projects that enable processes and functions operating more efficiently. S/he/they will
also leverage Core IT CoC teams (ie. ERP, Middleware, etc) to develop both short-term and target-state
solutions for business improvements related to SSC. S/he/they will also partner with Process Excellence
team for SSC process streamlining and optimization, and the most importantly, lay out a maturity
model/roadmap that SSC improvement programs can be enabled with digital/IT tools.

S/he/they will also oversee and manage vendors who provide service to SSC, including platform
utilization, stability, resourcing, support, etc.

The IT Business Partner&PMO Finance Shared Service Centers position will report directly to Senior
Manager Finance & SSC Platforms and Lean Portfolio Management, based in Germany.

Serve as the business partner and trusted advisor to global functional teams: Shared Services
Centers and other relevant teams while providing technical thought leadership.

Collaborate with the Transformation Office on the IT intake process and prioritization of
projects.

Monitor the end-to-end management of the entire project lifecycle (initiation, budgeting,
planning & designing, implementation and closing) of a selected project portfolio, with cross
technical teams such as engineering, product, enterprise architecture, security, development,
QA, support, etc

Perform analysis of schedules and collaborate with stakeholder groups to ensure that
appropriate resources are allocated to projects to ensure successful and timely completion

Manage project and business risks incl. transparent management reporting and budgeting

Recruit consultants, production support and maintenance, etc; leverage & set up a cost-efficient and sustainable resourcing model that meets quality, flexibility and service-level.

Responsible for managing financial activities and contractual negotiations and on-going maintenance.

Requirements:

(The abilities that the individual needs to perform this role effectively)

• Bachelor's degree or Masters degree in Finance/Accounting, Information Technology,
  Operations, or other-related industry experience. 10 + years of professional experience, with
  minimum 5 years in a Six Sigma or Lean Portfolio management, minimum 3 years in supporting
  finance-function, especially Shared-Services or BPO, and minimum 2 years in managing program
  management office
• Strategic thinker who is business-centric and customer-focused; Demonstrate the ability to
  translate businesses requirements into technology solution
• Clear thinker who can piece together system and data flows (downstream, midstream, and
  upstream) and to identify business/user impacts, data flow, and process flow. Also, to mitigate
  risks
• Ability to work with senior level management, business units and corporate staff executives to
  develop a technology strategy that is integrated with IT and across all business units
• Experience in process analysis and development of technical concepts, configuration and
  implementation in the area of SAP ERP, Finance & Controlling
• Strong understanding of each business unit to include their business drivers for success, process
  and approaches to business models.
• Proven success in business partnerships that enable transparency and accountability across the
  organization
• Ability to build and leverage vendor/services provider relationships to improve support
• Prioritize and manage multiple programs simultaneously, strong project management and organizational skills
• Deploy and apply LEAN methodology, to improve global function systems and employee daily operations

• Six Sigma Certification preferred

• PMP Certification a plus

• Industrial or Chemical Industry experience a plus