Finance IT, Information Technology, Manager (2024)

Finance IT, Information Technology, Manager (2024)

ABOUT ONEX:

Onex is an investor and asset manager that invests capital on behalf of Onex shareholders and clients across the globe. Formed in 1984, we have a long track record of creating value for our clients and shareholders. Onex became a public company in 1987 and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ONEX.

Onex’ two primary businesses are Private Equity and Credit. In Private Equity, we raise funds from third-party investors and invest them, along with Onex’ own investing capital, through the funds of our private equity platforms: Onex Partners and ONCAP. Similarly, in Credit, we raise and invest capital across several private credit, liquid credit and public equity strategies. Our investors include a broad range of global clients, including public and private pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.

Onex has $48.7 billion in assets under management (“AUM”), of which $32.9 billion is fee-generating and $8.5 billion is Onex’ own investing capital. We generate value for our shareholders through two segments: Investing and Asset Management. Our Investing segment includes gains on our invested capital. Our Asset Management segment generates revenues from the recurring fees clients pay us to manage their capital and includes carried interest from our private equity and private credit funds.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a highly driven and detail-oriented individual to join our Information Technology group as a Manager to the Finance Technology team based in Toronto. Reporting to the Director, Corporate IT, this role will provide support for our Finance applications and Corporate Finance team. The successful candidate will be an experienced manager with 5+ years management experience in supporting technology for finance applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and support corporate finance systems, ensuring seamless operations and high-quality delivery of IT solutions.
• Oversee IT change management process, including system updates, maintenance and software deployment, while ensuring adherence to audit and compliance requirements.
• Manage and track progress on execution of team tasks and deliverables to ensure timely delivery of end solutions
• Collaborate with Corporate Finance and Project managers across multiple IT/Business units and teams, projects and programs, coordinating end-to-end business solution delivery stages and milestones, aligning project scopes, costs and timelines.
• Collaborating with system architects, business analysts and solution developers to estimate impact to the system architecture, and define prerequisite team activities and tasks for design, development, system changes, testing and deployment, required to support the full implementation of the end state business/IT solutions.
• Ensuring appropriate controls testing occurs to support audit requirements and integrity of the financial systems
• Resource and capacity planning, assigning and managing team priorities
• Ensuring Quality Assurance guidelines of the solution are being followed and QA standards and sign-off criteria are met at the release time.
• Working with the business stakeholders and product owners to demonstrate and review changes to the systems to ensure all relevant business needs and functions are addressed as expected.
• Establishing Production implementation and rollout plans and managing deployment tasks and activities on the planned release dates.
• Recommending and implementing best practices, methodology and tools for the continuous improvement of the software development and solution delivery process, and project status reporting.
• Third party liaison and vendor governance related to vendor performance, system security, incident management and response times, business continuity and service levels.
• Management, tracking and oversight of production support incidents related to Finance applications
• Provide people management, technical expertise and direction to team of system administrators

Candidate Profile:

• Experienced manager of Finance applications, supporting both production and project implementation
• Proven leadership skills with experience in managing and developing a high performing team
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior management
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, negotiate and align IT strategy to business goals
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, overcome confusion and simplify complex situations
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to quickly assimilate and apply new concepts, business models, and technologies to design
• Demonstrated ability to stay current with emerging financial and IT technologies and provide innovative solutions that align with business goals
• Strong knowledge in security and privacy governance is required
• Experience working with core finance applications including Dynamics 365 Business Central, OneStream and Coupa
• Familiarity with relevant technologies including but not limited to:
• SQL, VB.net, .Net Framework