Delivery Lead

What will your essential responsibilities include

• Leading an impactful application delivery team supporting AXA XL's corporate Finance business functions including Accounting, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, and Solvency II reporting functions.
• Working closely with key business stakeholders to manage critical finance processes including monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles to meet local, regulatory, and AXA group deadlines.
• Managing end-to-end data processing from Insurance systems through to General Ledger and Financial Reporting Systems; working collaboratively with cross-functional teams ensuring financial data integrity throughout the architecture.
• Delivering high-impact bespoke and packaged solutions leveraging hands-on design, development, and technical architecture experience. Leading global teams including internal staff and external vendor resources and successfully delivering complex business solutions.
• Establishing the scope of services, service levels, and key processes required to deliver application services within the application portfolio.
• Producing and maintaining the roadmap of change associated with the application group.
• Aligning team to high-level organization goals and objectives.
• Managing and reporting on budget and resource allocation and utilization.
• Monitoring supplier performance reports and addressing concerns.
• Reviewing and approving contracts for a predetermined level of authority.
• Assisting procurement to manage vendor relations and maintain vendor accountability.
• Overseeing Continuous Service Improvement initiatives to ensure continuously improving processes and capabilities.
• Interfacing with internal and external auditors.
• Supporting resolution of escalated risks and issues as a part of service delivery.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers.
• Producing high-level estimates as needed.
• Participating as a member of a Major Incident Team, as applicable.
• Managing threats to application assets.
• Protecting and maintaining AXA XL's Intellectual Property.
• Ensuring all processes are documented and maintained.
• Developing change management strategies and approaches and assisting business partners with readiness and change implementation.
• Providing audit support for both internal and external assessments; articulating policies and standards as appropriate and providing all required evidence on a timely basis. Owning the completion of any action plans.
• Ensuring the Solution Delivery Center adheres to Information Security policies and standards for secure coding and managing risk acceptances.
• In collaboration with Procurement, managing RFI/RFPs, contract negotiations, and delivery of contract terms. Also managing clean termination of contracts with vendors who consistently underperform.

We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Experience leading global application development teams supporting financial systems for the insurance industry.
• Experience managing Oracle EBS General Ledger and OBIA Reporting environment is desired.
• Experience managing complex financial data and reporting systems in a high-volume environment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills delivering high-impact bespoke and packaged solutions for the insurance industry.
• Demonstrated hands-on design, development, and technical architecture experience leading global teams including internal staff and external vendor resources and successfully delivering complex business solutions.
• Expert-level experience in planning and executing complex, large-scale initiatives or operational areas.
• Experience with budget, supply, and resource management for in-scope applications and services.
• Ability to hold suppliers accountable for performance against Service Levels.
• Ensure appropriate Statements of Work (SoWs) / Service Level Agreements (SLAs) exist for all development vendor engagements.