Global Finance Transformations Director - IDEMIA
Reston, VA 20190
About the Job
IDEMIA is the global leader in identity and security. Our mission is to create a safe and simple future where identity verification is indisputable, and only you can assert your identity. We are a distributed company leveraging the latest technologies to deliver world-class products in the private and public sectors of finance, telecom, identity, security, retail, sports entertainment, commercial, government, and IoT. We use a variety of technologies and approaches to deliver quality product and services to government agencies and technology companies. IDEMIA is a made up of a group of 14,000 diverse people from different nationalities, speaking over 20 different languages. Together, our solutions impact the everyday lives of citizens and nations. In this ever-changing world, protecting your identity is paramount. Join the team that is ensuring one person - one identity.
Responsibilities:Key Objectives
- Play a critical role in transformational efforts by leading prominent corporate strategic initiatives and ensuring programmatic governance.
- Manage initiatives end-to-end through requirements, design, build, testing, and implementation.
- Lead a matrixed project team made up of diverse stakeholders, ensuring a high level of engagement and communication and report directly to the Vice President of the Accounting.
- Communicate and partner with stakeholders across the organization to deliver projects on time and on budget.
- Drive the business and processes by delivering working solutions to executive leadership.
- Provide oversight for consultants, with a focus on optimizing finances, scheduling, resource allocation, and other key operational factors.
- Offer programmatic expertise and ensure alignment with the broader transformation approach, fostering a cohesive and integrated transformational strategy.
- Spearhead efforts to connect the dots between various initiatives and areas to drive enhanced business outcomes.
- Facilitate and lead stakeholder meetings, e.g., steering committees, workshops, kickoff meetings.
- Lead targeted efforts to promote awareness and engagement among key stakeholders, including operations, sponsors, SteerCo, project leads, and others, to ensure optimal buy-in and support for transformational initiatives.
Main Projects
ERP Implementations
- Implementing ERP Roadmap in parallel across the globe – managing multiple projects at the same time – developing a roadmap/plan that is repeatable in each jurisdiction
- Ensuring Fit/Gap items are solutioned
- Building the system with the interfaces needed to facilitate the finance operating model
- Solutioning issues – requires innovative thinking – but also getting the open decisions resolved timely and documenting them
- Maintaining and holding people accountable for RAID items
Center of Excellence
- Manage and deliver the project plan developed for scaling our Center of Excellence
- Help expand services being offered out of this CoE
- Simplify processes and drive consistency and efficiency across CoE services
- Drive expansion into all global regions for IPS
Finance Process Improvements
- Help drive and implement process improvements
- Develop roadmap of improvement areas – agreeing on the priorities with senior leaders and keeping teams aware of progress and involvement
- Reporting and tracking progress of items identified on roadmap
Enhancing and Alignment of Business FP&A Tools
- Manage reporting workstream project to help drive enhanced reporting for business leaders
- Achieve consistency in our reporting offering from finance
- Ensure reporting impacts from ERPs and process improvements are facilitating down to the reporting workstream
Job Requirements
Academic and Work Experience
- Degree in Accountancy / Finance / Business
- At least 10 years of relevant working experience preferably in a similar capacity for a global company
- Strong understanding of the best-in-class finance practices and processes
- Technical accounting knowledge of Finance, Accounting, and IT
- Leading projects from developing the business case to implementation
- Participation in stakeholder meetings, e.g., steering committees
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Analytical and detail-oriented; able to make good business sense from financial data
- Excellent decision making and problem solving ability
- Self motivated individual who is able to work well independently as well as under pressure with accuracy and commitment
- Strong project management skills & organizational skills are must with a sense of urgency to all tasks set.
- Strict attention to detail, accurate, and reliable
- Can do attitude and flexible to change
- Ability to work autonomously, be results orientated, and respect deadlines
- Enthusiasm and team player attitude
- Appreciation of remote shared services environment
- Strong Microsoft Office skills