
IT Business Lead
- Dalian, Liaoning
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Follow global digital transformation plan to do further assessment on the implementation in regional and lead IT project success in regional (like ERP/E-invoice etc.)
- Gather intelligence from finance representatives about their departmental needs
- Identify opportunities for process advancement leveraging technology
- Participate in ideation activities to create high-level process and technology roadmaps.
- Support creation of IT investment proposals and/or Agile Release Trains.
- Map business objectives and capability needs to specific business functions and processes.
- Analyze and document business processes related to finance and accounting in service and product sales industry.
- Identify areas for improvement and recommend streamlined process and system solutions to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into SOR and functional specifications.
- Coordinate system testing and support user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure the quality of SAP Finance solutions.
- Provide end-user training and support to ensure successful adoption of SAP Finance solutions.
- Work closely with the business and IT to ensure correct understanding, modelling, and implementation of business requirements
- Partner with other IT teams to create and maintain application roadmap aligned to the business objectives
- Develop and retain positive relationships with other IT teams to delivery long-term solution
- Plan and lead change management activities including testing and user trainings
- Assume responsibility for project tasks and ensure they are completed in a timely fashion
- Evaluate and recommend new opportunities for enhancing software, hardware and IT processes with the finance team and the IT department on the latest technology and its implications on the processes
- Conduct usability and functional testing and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
- Participate in development of solution training material and execution of change management activities.
- Enable effective practices in data governance, business intelligence, and data analytics.
- Support risk management, regulatory compliance, Information Security, and audit remediation activities.
- Support business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, including creation of business impact analyses.
- Present the developed solution to the concerned audience and solicit feedback.
- Participate in migration, handover, end-user training and deployment activities.
- Prepare use cases, business requirements documents (BRD), system requirements specification (SRS) documents and other functional documents.
- Proven ability to quickly learn new applications, processes, and procedures
- University degree in the area of computer science/ business information systems or similar
- Minimum of 10 years of overall work experience
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in the financial processes
- Prior experience working in a financial shared service environment is a strong plus
- Experience working within and / or supporting ERP transaction finance areas strongly preferred
- Knowledge of major ERPs such as SAP, Oracle or Baan is a must to have
- Demonstrated prior experience with process mapping a plus
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
- Strong planning, organizational, and leadership skills
- Excellent command of both spoken and written English
- Experience in business analysis and/ or business processes automation
- Understanding of IT landscape, systems and Integration architecture in large organizations
- Ability to collaborate across multiple functions, departments and levels under global organization
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- High level of abstraction, fast understanding and conceptual thinking
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Ability to deliver quality output under tight deadlines