Senior BT Business Partner

About the role

The Senior BT Business Partner will facilitate the relationship between the business areas and the business technology function by providing high value consultative services to guide the understanding, simplification and automation to address business challenges and opportunities. The role will facilitate, lead, and drive the analysis and planning of initiatives to achieve company objectives through the effective use of technology. They communicate priorities, decisions and relevant information regarding business technology services, requests, projects and initiatives. This position may directly lead BT Business Partners.

Responsibilities

• Builds a trusted relationship with Finance at all levels throughout the company.
• Facilitates and leads sessions to understand, simplify, improve and automate business processes to focus on value realization aligned with departmental and company strategy.
• Communicates, understands and anticipates areas of need, opportunities and impacts to other business areas.
• Facilitates input from business and technology perspectives to jointly create recommendations in support of the business tactics, initiatives and strategies.
• Coordinates or leads the Project Portfolio management process to ensure resources are allocated appropriately and projects are completed timely.
• Provides advisory role on priority of initiatives and projects.
• Serves as escalation point when necessary.
• Represents business unit needs and priorities as well as departmental priorities, services, processes, procedures and roles.
• Facilitates cross-functional discussions to identify common needs and utilization of common solutions.
• Represents business technology department processes, roles, procedures to business groups.
• May directly lead BT Business Partners.
• Leads the analysis and feasibility of improvement opportunities.
• Develops and facilitates the definition of project approach, scope, plan, technology, risks, cost vs. benefits, and resources.
• Transitions ideas and plans to project charters to a project team.
• Follows through on monitoring and advising with project sponsor to ensure value and scope of project is delivered through the project manager and other stakeholders.
• Possess deep understanding of Finance and Accounting function and department priorities.
• Assists in the business process redesign and documentation for new technology.
• Investigates, resolves and escalates business problems related to technology utilization.
• Generates communication, process and educational plans as needed relevant to ideas and projects.
• Coaches and transfers subject matter knowledge to business and technology staff.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and satisfaction with projects and services.
• Supports reporting and recap of projects on regular basis.
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in information technology, finance, accounting or relevant field of study, preferred
• Experience: Equivalent experience and training or a minimum of 10 years of experience in IT leadership, business analysis, and/or project management with large projects in dynamic organizations.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of processes such as AP/AR, FP&A, Financial Closeouts, Compliance, and Risk in order to implement, resource, and help make decisions on technology solutions.
• Fostering collaboration within Finance and across departmental and company boundaries.
• Building and analyzing strategic roadmaps and understand impacts across the departments.
• Conduct Business Process Mapping related to Finance/Accounting value chain (e.g. ATR/RTR, OTC, PTP, etc.).
• Balancing effective situational leadership for planning, prioritizing and organizing work.
• Balancing multiple demands and projects simultaneously.
• Analyze business processes, technology solutions and vendor proposals to provide a recommendation to business on ideal approached.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Proficiency in use of a PC, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, and other productivity and communication applications.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Knowledge of finance and accounting principles.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate business processes and technology solutions.
• Experience with business process mapping and redesign.
• Experience with project portfolio management.

Benefits

FTI offers a competitive, merit-based compensation, career path development, and a flexible and robust benefits package including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Retirement plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Employee assistance program
• Professional development and continuing education
• Wellness programs
• Flexible work arrangements
• PTO

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Typical work hours are between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday – Friday. However, work may be performed at any time on any day of the week to meet business needs.

Company Information

Career Development and Continued Education Programs: FTI provides career development and continued education programs to position employees for success.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Faith Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – veterans/disabled.