Senior Manager, IT Business Partner – Finance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with partners and team members across Finance, TDS, and external vendors.

• Drive the delivery of work results and products that support business objectives.

• Work in partnership with the business to grasp and align with strategic priorities.

• Envision, identify, and define opportunities for technology and/or process redesign.

• Act as a liaison between business and technology teams to ensure successful solution delivery.

• Implement and manage projects, including progress reporting, organizational change impact analysis, value realization plans, and risk mitigation.

• Facilitate the deployment and adoption of innovative technology capabilities, services, and solutions.

• Ensure that solutions fulfill the changing needs of both internal and external customers.

• Advocate for and utilize technological innovations to enhance value, lower costs, and deliver next-generation capabilities.

• Emphasize agility and iterative value delivery through comprehensive solution thinking.

• Coordinate with TDS teams to ensure solutions align with BD enterprise roadmaps.

• Represent the business within TDS and advocate for TDS interests within the business.

• Measure and communicate realized value using defined metrics and supporting analysis.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related fields is strongly preferred.

• A Master’s degree is highly desirable.

• Over 10 years of professional experience working in a technology function.

• Strong understanding of finance transformation principles, best practices, and industry trends.

• Experience in Finance process and technology capabilities, including financial reporting, financial insights and analytics, driver-based financial planning, and consolidations (GAAP).

• In-depth understanding of the finance technology landscape and system capabilities.

• Proficiency in using finance transactional and reporting systems.

• Knowledge of SAP and data flow to Business Warehouse and other downstream reporting; familiarity with SAP S4/ECC, BPC, Power BI, and Databricks is strongly preferred.

• Expertise in software development, testing, and release cycle protocols.

• Skilled in solutioning, blueprinting/design sessions, business requirements documentation, test scenarios, cutover, hyper-care, project planning, and status reporting.

• Exceptional ability to communicate business and technical opportunities or challenges in a clear manner.

• Strong capability to inspire change using positive and collaborative methods.

• Experience leading teams and working within a highly matrixed global organization.

• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and align with team members.

• Experience in challenging the status quo and introducing innovative ideas and solutions.

• Strong humility, listening, and influencing skills.

• Demonstrated leadership by example, including inspiring, mentoring, coaching, and encouraging others.

• Analytical, evaluative, intellectually curious, with a continuous improvement mindset and strong problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills.

• Experience in implementing process excellence and lean principles.

• Experience leading Kaizen workshops is a plus.

• Familiarity with product management and Agile methodology, along with associated tools, is beneficial.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings, and flexible spending accounts.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Wellness resources.

• Mental health support.

• Disease management programs.

• 401(k).

• Deferred compensation programs.

• Financial counseling.

• DailyPay.

• Educational savings resources.

• Paid time off.

• Company holidays.

• Educational assistance.

• Parental leave.

• Adoption assistance.

• Backup care.

• Caregiving support.

• Employee assistance programs.

• Commuter benefits.

• Pet insurance.

• Legal services.

• Associate discount programs.

• Bereavement, military, personal, family, and medical leave.

• Jury duty leave.

• Reward and recognition opportunities.

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs.