Senior IT Manager, Financial Applications (Oracle)

Senior IT Manager, Financial Applications (Oracle)

Location: Birmingham, AL
Type: Direct Hire
ID: FL761
Posted: Jan 15, 2025

COMPANY

Build your career at the nation's largest producer in their industry. Joining this team means more than just stepping into a dynamic role-it's an opportunity to impact millions of lives across the country every day. This 65+ year-old organization brings in over $7B in annual sales.

LEADERSHIP & CULTURE

• When you join this leader, you join a dynamic culture in which career development is encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is valued.
• People share a competitive drive for excellence in an environment of trust, teamwork, open-mindedness, and communication. Every member of the team lives through the ideal of doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time.
• There is a strong sense of community.

BENEFITS & APPRECIATION

• Competitive salary, bonus, long-term incentive, comprehensive medical insurance plan for employees and dependents, and an award-winning 401(k) plan.
• The company invests in their people, providing essential training, guidance, and a supportive environment to develop, advance, and excel.

IMPACT

The Senior IT Manager, Finance and Accounting is responsible for the Finance and Accounting systems and services using a variety of applications (SAAS and On Premise) including governance and compliance. You will provide strategic leadership to programs/projects related to the Finance and Accounting digital transformation from Oracle EBS to Fusion financials, while partnering with business leadership.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

• This position is responsible for appropriate staffing, people management, performance management, and overall scheduling and capacity planning for a team of four people.
• Lead IT Finance and Accounting business applications team to provide strategy, implementation, maintenance, support, and continuous improvement.
• Coach, mentor, and manage direct reports to implement, maintain, and support all related software.
• Own all system configurations, integrations, workflows, reporting, and analytics in the area of Finance and Accounting.
• Participate/Provide strategic leadership in cross-functional programs/projects.
• Analyze, document, and communicate changes, design and develop solutions considering the overall impact to current business processes, integrations, and reports with cross-business users.
• Provide service level management including SLAs, incident and enhancement ticket management as well as delivery of smaller projects as key job duties.
• Partner with the development, integration, and testing teams to produce quality solutions and timely results.
• Responsible for quarterly patch evaluation, analyzing new or changed functionality, developing test plans, unit testing, and coordinating with business users in testing activities to ensure business continuity and continuous improvement.
• Participate in M&A activities and understand the overall impact to current business processes, integrations, and reports.
• Work with cross-functional business groups to lead/execute the integration plan.

IDEAL PROFILE

• 10+ years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.
• 4+ years of experience in a people leadership/management role within a corporate IT department, responsible for the IT Finance and Accounting business applications team.
• Expertise in the implementation and support of ERP applications, especially Oracle EBS, including leading a digital transformation from Oracle EBS to the Cloud (Fusion Financials / Oracle Cloud) as an IT Manager, supporting the finance and accounting areas.
• Experience in utilizing and managing SaaS applications in the Finance area.
• Proven ability to serve as an advisor to the business. Comfortable challenging requests. Prior consulting experience is a plus.
• Self-motivated, directed, and change-oriented.
• Ability to communicate concepts clearly and concisely to management and to cross-functional departments or teams verbally and in writing.
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business, or Information Technology from an accredited university required.
• Local to the Birmingham area or willing to relocate upon hire (from within the USA).