Financial Systems Technical Lead

Virginia  ‐ Onsite
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Description of Position

Soft skills: interface with the business side, articulate clearly, lead meetings, talk with sponsors and SME's.

The candidate will lead the technical piece of this. S/He will do day to day managing of Lawson technical development resources and another Lead Hyperion candidate.

Job Summary:
Responsible for supporting and developing the systems which include General Ledger (G/L), Accounts Payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Cash Management (CM), Fixed Assets (FA), Hyperion Planning/Financial Reporting and third party Treasury systems. Requires a strong hands-on person who can both help drive technical development projects and maintain world class systems operations.

Lawson Financial Suite and Hyperion analytical products comprise the current environment. Other ERP Financial Suites (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, and GRC), Hyperion and other applications necessary to support above systemsare under evaluation. The Technical Manager should have multiple full life cycle implementation hands on experience in implementing and supporting Lawson and otherTier 1 ERPapplications; as an example Oracle G/L, A/P, A/R, CM, FA, and Hyperion Analytic products.

This individual will manage the development, implementation, and maintenance of the applications in this area, including the systems analysis, programming and maintenance activities. Works closely with senior IT and user management teams to ensure that the requirements for business systems projects and change requests are well understood, documented, developed, tested and maintained.

Job Responsibilities:
- Works closely with business customers to implement systems projects including the development of plans, management of resources and deliverables in the Finance applications portfolio.
- Provides functional and technical input for business analysts and programming resources in the portfolio including setting priorities, coaching, reviewing work products and the reporting of team activities.
- Provides strong technical leadership managing hands on development in Lawson, Hyperion and other future technologies within the landscape.
- Must possess strong communication skills, both verbal and written, as well as exceptional analytical and time management capabilities.
- Assures proper documentation is maintained and that the required controls are implemented.
- Oversight of consultants and contractors assigned to projects or maintenance activities. Review of deliverables, adherence to SDLC and policies by third party resources.
- Provides day to day technical management of all Finance modules ensuring stable systems availability, performance, compliance and security.

Required Skills
Job Requirements:
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Bachelors' degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting/Finance, or other related fields required with 10+ years of IT related experience
- Experience managing large complex financial systems is required (preferably Lawson and Oracle)
- Experience leading multiple implementations or upgrades of large third party systems including ERP
- Experience in implementing and managing Oracle Hyperion Analytical environment, preferred
- Experience leading full systems development life cycle projects required
- Experience in the Software Release Lifecycle, (Change Management, Configuration Management, and Release Management)
- Solid understanding (hands on) of Accounting (AP, AR, CM, FA, GL; General Controls and SOX concepts)
- Diplomacy skills (relationship management) and the ability to be highly effective under pressure
- Strong communications skills required

Non-Technical Skills

Start date
immediately
From
The Merge Computer Group, Inc
Published at
27.03.2013
Project ID:
512004
Contract type
Freelance
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