ITBP – Finance

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the overall IT Business Partner for Finance in the EU Hub, covering key Finance domains such as:
  • Financial Accounting (GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets)
  • Controlling and Management Reporting
  • Budgeting, Forecasting, and Planning
  • Treasury, Tax, and Statutory Reporting
  • Internal controls and compliance
• Serve as the primary IT contact for Finance leadership on all IT-related topics.
• Partner with Finance Leadership.

Work Closely With Finance Leadership (CFO Organization)

• Understand Finance strategy, regulatory requirements, reporting needs, and operational pain points.
• Translate Finance business needs into a clear IT demand, capability roadmap, and investment plan.
• Ensure alignment between Finance strategy, IT strategy, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Own and continuously maintain the Finance IT roadmap, aligned with enterprise priorities and budget constraints.
• Provide Finance input into IT investment planning, budget prioritization, and value realization tracking.

End-to-End Requirements Management

• Own end-to-end requirement management for Finance-related IT initiatives.
• Shape, validate, and prioritize business requirements in close collaboration with Finance stakeholders.
• Ensure requirements are clearly defined with:
  • Business objectives and expected outcomes
  • Regulatory, compliance, and audit considerations
  • Scope, dependencies, risks, and assumptions
  • Clear success metrics and KPIs

Change Management & Business Adoption

• Lead business-side change management for Finance IT initiatives.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across:
  • Finance, IT, and other enabling functions
  • EU Hub and National Sales Companies (NSCs)
• Ensure Finance business readiness, including:
  • Process design and standardization
  • Data quality, governance, and controls
  • Capability building and end-user training
• Track system adoption, process compliance, and business value realization post go-live.

Project & Program Accountability

• Act as Business Owner and Accountable Sponsor for Finance IT projects and programs.
• Ensure initiatives are:
  • Clearly scoped with defined objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria
  • Prioritized and sequenced in line with the Finance IT roadmap
• Partner with Project and Program Managers to:
  • Define delivery approach, milestones, and critical path
  • Manage risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests
  • Prepare and support tollgates, steering committees, and portfolio reviews
• Ensure transparent communication of status, risks, impacts, and decisions to Finance and IT stakeholders.
• Support go-live readiness, post-implementation reviews, and ongoing value realization.

Cross-Functional & Vendor Collaboration

• Coordinate with Solution Architects and Product Teams (DDC and/or external suppliers) to:
  • Ensure Finance solution design meets business and regulatory requirements
  • Align Finance solution and product roadmaps with enterprise standards
• Collaborate with Project and Program Managers on planning, execution, milestones, and governance.

Architecture, Security & Compliance

• Ensure Finance IT solutions:
  • Meet business requirements and agreed success metrics
  • Comply with enterprise architecture standards
  • Adhere to security, internal control, audit, compliance, and data governance requirements
  • Support statutory, tax, and regulatory reporting obligations.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, preferably with additional coursework or a minor in Business Administration.

Experience

• Strong understanding of Finance processes and systems (e.g. ERP-SAP, Financial Reporting, Planning tools).
• Experience as an IT Business Partner, Finance Business Analyst, or IT Product Owner.
• Solid understanding of internal controls, audit, and compliance requirements.
• Experience working in multi-country or regional Finance organizations.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Business outcome- and value-driven mindset.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to coordinate across multicultural and cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to translate business needs into system solutions.
• Fluent in English; additional European languages or Mandarin Chinese a plus.