IS Finance & Controlling Solution Expert

IS Finance & Controlling Solution Expert

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As a global leader in animal health, Ceva Animal Health believes our success is linked to our passionate people researching, developing, producing and supplying innovative health solutions for all animals, which contributes to the future of our diverse planet.

We are committed to ensuring the highest possible level of care and well-being for farm animals (poultry, pigs, ruminants), companion animals (dogs and cats) and wildlife.

Indeed, our “Together, Beyond Animal Health” vision emphasizes that the health and wellbeing of people, animals and our planet are totally interlinked. More than ever, Ceva is committed to a "One Health" approach.

As part of our “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” policy, Ceva Animal Health is committed to the employment of people with disabilities and will make reasonable accommodations throughout the interview process to ensure an inclusive and accessible experience for all applicants. To request an accommodation, please contact a member of the Ceva Talent Acquisition team.

Your missions: Responsibilities:

The IS Finance & Controlling Solution Expert is responsible for the delivery and performance of the Financial Solutions related products reporting to the Support Functions Service Delivery Leader. His / her goal is to build scalable solutions that meet business needs, accelerate digital transformation, create / maintain a competitive advantage within CEVA’s market segments while ensuring regulatory compliance. To reach these goals, he / she needs to own overall activities and application life cycle including setup, evolution, backlog, support, maintenance, upgrades, decommissioning to meet the expectations of its customers in the most cost-efficient manner.

The main areas of responsibility of the IS Finance & Controlling Solution Expert are as follows:

• Solution Design, Implementation and Deployment
• Solution Support and Change Management
• Technology Watch and Solution Architecture

Solution Design, Implementation and Deployment:

In accordance with the Finance & Controlling Products Vision and Roadmap,

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to understand business processes, requirements, and objectives.
• Designs solutions that align with the finance & controlling processes and goals of the organization.
• Customizes and configures the different software to meet specific finance & controlling needs.
• Works closely with other application and integration product teams to implement efficient integration flow of data and E2E processes.
• Conducts system testing, user acceptance testing, and resolves any issues that arise during implementation.
• Ensures proper solution user adoption.
• Drives overall project management activities (including documentation) to ensure successful delivery (Quality, Cost, Planning).

Solution Support and Change Management:

• Ensures product availability meets SLAs and performance requirements agreed with the business teams.
• Works with internal teams and vendors to solve technical incidents and implement planned change requests (incident and change management).
• Reviews incidents to perform retro analysis and guarantee non re-occurrence (problem management).
• Manages change associated with the implementation of new solutions or updates to existing systems.
• Communicates changes and updates to relevant stakeholders and ensures smooth transitions.
• Implements software evolution roadmap to comply with the product life cycle (Build, RUN, decommission).

Technology Watch and Solution Architecture:

• Contributes to appropriate software vendors or solutions evaluation and selection that align with the organization's needs.
• Defines and owns overall ecosystem technical architecture.

Your profile: Core Competencies:

• Structures solutions in a complex ecosystem – questions the way things are done.
• Customer oriented – listens to customer needs and provides recommendations.
• Collaborates with empathy – proactively acts in a collaborative way.
• Drives ambition and accountability – holds self and others accountable for high performance.
• Influences others – consciously tries to persuade.

Technical & Functional Competencies:

• Application knowledge – capacity to define systems development life cycle best practices to create robust applications in JDE and other financial systems.
• Domain / Product Expertise – mastery of Finance & controlling domains, challenge proposed improvements and act as the referent in the domain / product.
• Project Management – know-how of project coordination methodology.
• In-depth understanding of the Financial & controlling process.
• Multi-cultural, collaborative, team-oriented working style with ability to build strong, trusting relationships.
• Good communication skills and ability to communicate complex / technical language in simple words.
• Ability to interact with peers in all geographies.

Profile:

• 3-5 years’ experience in customizing finance & controlling applications in a company or with a consulting firm or software provider.
• Candidates should be fluent in English.
• High energy team player with a bias for action.
• 3-5 years of experience with systems delivery, with emphasis on packaged software product implementation.
• Experience in implementing ERP (JD Edwards, SAP or similar...) is highly valuable.
• Experience in implementing Budget & planning process (Anaplan, Board, Tidemark...) is highly valuable.
• Analytical skills to build proper KPI and dashboard with business data.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Based in France.