Sr. Manager-IS Financial Systems

Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate prioritization and allocation of capital and expense budgets for IS Financial System Projects and Application Support.
• Liaise with Accounting & Finance stakeholders (C level executives, Controllership team, Segment Controllers, etc.); Business Units; and IS leadership team to develop a 3 to 5 year, rolling, strategic roadmap for Westlake Financial business processes and associated applications.
• Facilitate delivery of IS Financial System Projects that meet business requirements, at the highest Economic Value Added (EVA) return, on time and within budget.
• Oversee the IS Major Financial System Project Portfolio process by monitoring and reporting on active IS projects as well as strategic planning with management on the overall project roadmap.
• Provide oversight of IS project estimating, budgeting, planning and scheduling.
• Provide project status updates that include execution against plan and deviation analysis, and maintain a project repository that contains all standardized project progress reports and issues tracking.
• Manage and/or provide guidance to employees of the IS SAP/BPC Application Team.
• Create or support the creation of required reports in response to business user and IT management’s needs.
• Establish and maintain communications with business sponsors and business owners to ensure user satisfaction is maintained.
• Manage and resolve support requests in compliance with annual Application Support goals and service levels for SAP & BPC.
• Oversee operations and maintenance of SAP and BPC functions including relevant configuration and work closely with the IS Technical team, who is responsible for ABAP Development and other non-SAP application development, to ensure secure and reliable operations as well as Application Architecture consistency and integrity.
• Oversee operations and maintenance of third-party applications interfaced with the SAP system and primarily used by the Accounting & Finance Organization such as BlackLine, Lease Accelerator, GetPaid, Integrity, Vertex, Concur, etc.
• Develop and maintain a resource plan to ensure that projects are properly staffed and that financial systems are adequately supported.
• Demonstrate change management capabilities to ensure effective adoption of new and existing financial system solutions across Westlake companies.
• Maintain monitoring of operation of critical SAP and BPC Processes and Services.
• Review, approve and test software updates.
• Provide Project Management for related service requests for new systems, functionality, upgrades, etc.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on Business Application products, services, and standards in support of new business requirements.
• Monitor new financial technology trends and work with business users to introduce the appropriate solutions.
• Regarding security: enforce established SAP, BPC and other Application Security access controls; review Security Profile changes to ensure private and sensitive data is protected; and coordinate or perform application and security audits.
• Understand and follow Standard System Life Cycle Methods, Quality Assurance Testing and Sarbanes Oxley Program Change Controls.
• Coordinate and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to the SAP and BPC Application environments.
• Ensure training materials and user skills are current and coordinate necessary user training.
• Any and all other assignments as required.

Education, Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum Educational Requirement: Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• Minimum Experience Requirement: Exp. as Mgr SAP FICO Consultant; Mgr SAP BPC Consultant or other title/occupation in which 5 yrs of SAP FICO exp. in ECC 6.0 EHP 8 or >; 5 yrs of SAP BPC exp. in NetWeaver 10.01 or > was gained.
• Alternate Requirements: Exp. as Mgr SAP FICO Consultant; Mgr SAP BPC Consultant or other title/occupation in which 7 yrs of SAP FICO exp. in ECC 6.0 EHP 8 or >; 7 yrs of SAP BPC exp. in NetWeaver 10.01 or > was gained.
• Travel Requirement: Up to 25% Domestic and International.
• Partial telecommuting – 2 days per week.