IT Lead - Financial Technologies

IT Lead – Finance Applications  Â

We are seeking an accomplished and forward-thinking Finance Solution Architect to lead our organization’s financial technology initiatives. As a pivotal member of our team, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing financial systems. Your profound expertise in Blackline, Hyperion, Medius, Workiva and other finance related applications will be instrumental in shaping our financial landscape and driving efficiency. Additionally, you will be responsible for managing solution implementation vendors, and ensuring seamless execution of projects. Coordinates with stakeholders in Business, Business Partners, ERP Leads, Global Application Delivery Leads, Testing CoE, Project Managers, and System Integrator(s), to drive end-to-end delivery and completion. Provide leadership direction to Stryker team on best practices, reusability, release management and ensure smooth release of finance applications.

What you will do:

• ​​ Collaboration with Build leads/ key stakeholders and drive team to perform activities following Stryker’s Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) framework and processes.
• Work closely with System Integrator(s) to ensure alignment of key program activities and milestones for deployment and production releases.
• Oversee and ensure completion of all business and program cut-over activities.
• Aligns on Technical Designs, Prototypes/Mock-ups, Development, Testing and Delivery of solutions for Release Cycles and/or new projects within the commercial application stack.
• Creates, coordinates and influences the deployment communication plans, including “Go Liveâ€� readiness, change management, cutover, and stabilization.
• Manages and coordinates with external suppliers and deployment partners to ensure they meet their contracted deliverables, agreed upon timelines, and metrics.
• Working with PMO, Delivery Leads, Process Leads, and Change management, develop standards, tools and systems to effectively and efficiently manage the deployment of the commercial products across Stryker divisions, functions, and regions.
• Works closely with Service Delivery teams to ensure Build to Run smooth transition, integration and handover processes.
• Communication within IT teams is critical for both day-to-day events and building out new solutions.
• Ensures timely escalation and mitigation of issues and risks to ensure a smooth deployment process.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to other Delivery Leads, Solution Leads and Solution Analysts within the team or same project/program.
• Financial focus on delivering activities on budget, leveraging time on value-driven activities and ensuring external resources meet contractual deliverables.

What you will need:

• 7-10 Â years of experience in deploying or delivering finance solutions.
• Technical and solution Design and configuration expertise in any of the following areas – Procure to Pay, Invoice to Cash, or Record to Report.
• Experience in at least one of the following systems: Hyperion, SAP BPC, Blackline, Workiva, Concur, Coupa, Medius, Xelix
• Ensure seamless integration with other systems (such as SAP S/4HANA) and data sources.
• Collaborate with accounting teams / IT Business Partners to streamline processes, enhance controls, and automate workflows, provide transition for  technical support and lead performance tuning efforts and Partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure visibility for the current as well as future landscape to fit Strykers long term needs.
• Ability to consider upstream and downstream process impacts and implications.
• Experienced in enterprise solution methodologies, preferably in both traditional waterfall and agile approaches preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Excel Advanced, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Access DB, MS Project Suite (MPP/Visio/etc.).