Global Finance Transformations Director - IDEMIA

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.

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