[Featured Job] Finance Subject Matter Expert at Enterprise Solution function of a leading FMCG, Bangalore
CA (rankholder/first attempt) 8+ years of post qualification experience with hands on experience in SAP
Job Position: Innovation Subject Matter Expert
Function: Enterprise Solution
Reports to: Functional/Landscape/ Application maintenance
Director
Scope: Global
Location: India
Travel Time: 10%
About “Enterprise
Solutions”
Enterprise Solutions is responsible for IT Innovation, IT
Solutions Implementation, IT Run & Support for all the Enterprise
Applications in core business functions like Supply Chain, Finance, Sales. The
Solutions would largely comprise of Enterprise Applications from SAP, Oracle
& In-house developed solutions. The Teams within Enterprise Solutions are
structured around
–
IT Innovation : Design & Program ownership
of IT Solutions, driven by SMEs
–
IT Landscapes : The Total Ownership of the IT
Instances, both Global & Regional
–
Application Mgmt : Owning the Run & Maintain
for all applications, including User Support
–
Enabling Functions : Functions like Project
Delivery, System Resilience, Supplier Management, etc
Role Details
Subject Matter Expert (SME) provides a focus on the delivery
into their functional or cross-functional area, which includes owning the
application landscape roadmap, design to delivery of solutions, supporting the
run of the application, maintainability and lower Total Cost Of Ownership for
the business.
Accountabilities and responsibilities:
Following are the verticals that a SME would be responsible
for:
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Driving Innovations – Identify new technologies,
innovations which will provide business value. Designing to Deployment of
Solutions to meet business need
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Vendor management – Managing and building
relationships with vendors
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Total Cost Of Ownership – Drive reduction of TCO
for the application or landscape
-
Sustenance & Resilience – Ensure Sustenance
and Resilience of capabilities delivered
-
Build Talent and Teams – Invest in building
talent
Driving Innovations
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Responsible for both smooth project delivery and
Business As Usual post capability is live
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Manage global programs from design to delivery
in a converged manner
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Drive governance to ensure converged design
while considering country specific requirements and best practices across
landscapes
- Lead
delivery of all agreed IT-related projects, from Feasibility phase to
completion
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In the Ideas phase, provide support to Business
Engagement in driving clarity of business requirements, high level design, cost
and time estimates
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Challenging the business requirements to get to
the required level of detail and clarity
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Identify the right design, solution for the
business requirements, own the functional specifications and work packages for
delivering the solution
-
Work in close partnership with the vendors to
ensure on-time and on-budget execution of application changes for all key
projects and programmes
-
Work with global teams like Business Partners’s,
Other SME’s, Geography IT, Landscape teams to adopt global processes,
processes, technologies
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Align with other functional areas to mitigate
any cross functional impact
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Work with key vendors like SAP, Oracle etc for
evaluation of tools, external benchmarking of capabilities and validation of
solutions
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Develop strong relationships with key
stakeholders in Unilever IT
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Identify innovations, future growth
opportunities for exploration
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Ensure sustainable solutions with minimal
business disruption and lower TCO
Vendor Management
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Participate in functional and technical design
reviews (QA process) with strategic IT suppliers and/or other 3rd parties
when/where appropriate
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Hold vendors accountable for quality and
timeliness of deliveries through governance mechanisms
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Ensure adequate knowledge sharing and retention
through documentation and adherence to project delivery methodology
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Build strategic relationships with the vendors
Drive Total Cost Of Ownership
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Drive simplification to support the lowest
possible TCO for each component in the systems landscape.
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Deliver above responsibilities within an agreed
financial charging structure and budget
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Adopt methodologies of convergence, build once
so that the cost of delivery is reduced
Sustenance & Resilience
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Develop and maintain the roadmap for IT systems
architecture change/refresh in line with destination architecture and aligned
with business priorities for change projects and programmes
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Work with landscape management teams to ensure
system hygiene, performance, keep environment current (KEC) objectives are
delivered
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Work with the release management teams to ensure
gate process and release process is adhered to
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To work with the application maintenance teams
not only for transition of new projects, but also support of existing processes
to ensure user satisfaction and call
reduction
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Plan for infrastructure needs, service
introduction and service transition and work with the teams for delivering it
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Ensure minimal business disruption. In case of a
disruption, resolve the issue and the root cause with less downtime
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Ensure a stable and resilient system – this
should be ensured in project delivery & run
Process and Technology knowledge required:
One or more of the
following Business Processes:
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Order to Cash – Customer Service, Billing,
Pricing
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Financials – Procure to Pay, Record to Report,
General Ledger, Costing, COPA
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Planning – Supply and Demand Planning
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Manufacturing – Production, Quality, Maintenance
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Warehousing and Logistics
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Procurement – MRP, Sourcing
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Mobility
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CRM – Associated business processes like
customer interactions, customer management
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PLM - PLM - product lifecycle management
Main Associated
Technologies / Applications (one or more of these applications):
- One or
more of Enterprise Applications like SAP, Oracle, etc
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