Director, Finance

Location:
- Singapore- Discipline:
- Client type:
- Contact:
- Sloane Covey- Reference:
- 934- Posted:
- about 12 hours agoWe are currently working with a global Data Centre Developer with strong expansion growth strategy regionally to bring in a talented Finance Director who is dependable and possesses a systematic mindset to support in the implementation of systems and to work closely with the Finance team. If you are successful in this role, you will have the opportunity to work with an exciting, energetic team with a strong, open culture with a strong desire to grow aggressively, regionally.

**Responsibilities**:

- Support the implementation of a single instance SAP S/4 Hana including related systems for the Group including new markets and other related transformation change efforts including efficiency and effectiveness initiatives
- Performed at least one successful, large-scale implementation of SAP HANA project in a lead capacity
- Good knowledge in SAP functional areas like FICO, MM, SD, PS and technical areas such as ABAP and BASIS

Proven ability to interact with various business users, senior management, IT teams and external vendors effectively
- Experience in project plans, milestones, measures, budget, resource and time management
- Excellent leaderships skills and emotional intelligence to influence key decisions, mediate conflicts and build, guide and drive various teams in the transformation journey from project conceptualisation through to operations
- Work with service providers to meet project deadlines, identify project obstacles, proactively mitigate risks, and escalate and resolve issues effectively
- Prepare/manage work plans, schedules, project estimates/budget, resource plans, vendor services/contracts and status reports on a regular basis
- Manage the scope change process with identification of risks and issues, and facilitate resolution, mitigation and prioritization
- Conduct regular project meetings and provide regular status monitoring on all project activities
- Manage stakeholders expectations, providing regular project status update
- Identify project risks and work closely with team members to mitigate the risks and resolve project issues
- Conduct regular quality assessment, monitor project performance and actively take preventive/corrective actions
- Proper hand-over to Support team in accordance to procedures in place
- Lead the team in user acceptance testing and end user training for SAP S/4 Hana implementation
- Review training documentation and coordinate Train the Trainer sessions to key users and BPOs
- Review policies and procedures to identify and implement process improvements, work with different stakeholders to support the organisation on initiatives in organisational excellence journey
- Project oversight of accounting operational review and support to departments and invest companies, ensure close monitoring and controls are in place and timely recognition of transactions per accounting standards and internal accounting policies
- Ensure that adequate systems and processes are in place for operations and provide advice on financial guidelines, policies and procedures
- Participate in finance transformation initiatives and play leadership role to manage process and teams
- Support the end-to-end integration with other functional modules, CRM and operational systems

**Job Requirements**:

- Post-Graduate Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Finance, Business management, Computer Science
- CA Certification
- Proficient in SAP and excel
- A solid SAP consulting, Project Management background with good grip over methodologies
- Working experience with Enterprise Resource Planning systems such as single instance SAP S4 Hana and related systems such as Concur, SuccessFactors, Salesforce for CRM
- Strong analytical skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrate collaboration and teamwork, is innovative and constantly seeks improvement
- Excellent problem-solving skills, able to think out of the box, work under pressure and tight project timelines