Finance Product Officer - (EPM)

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES LINKED TO OBJECTIVE AREAS

• Support across multiple environments with primary focus on EPM Cloud applications for Consolidation, Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting.

• Support and take ownership of enhancements and integrations with other applications, by collaborating with cross-functional teams, including IT and other stakeholders to ensure the implementation and project management of initiatives across the Finance application landscape.

• Ensure all financial applications support is provided in line with respective Service Level Agreement (SLAs) helping to keep the lights with support from IT.

• It is expected that the person in this role suggests root cause fixes towards permanent resolution for identified recurring issues.

• Provide consultancy & business support related to financial applications, assisting the end-user community to utilize systems effectively and helping enable the evolving business processes via solutions provided through improved system functionality on a continuous basis.

• Explore & suggest new features in financial applications to continuously improve the products under management. This applies to internal and external (vendor-based) applications.

• Maintain regression test packs, conduct first level of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new features, enhancements & bug-fixes for financial applications.

• Find innovative ways to continuously improve the testing cycle for FA&MM, optimizing time and resources for the department.

• Help write Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs), user guides and setup / configuration documents for systems (core configuration) & functional masters for financial applications.

• Action user access management & functional masters update requests while being compliant with defined policies, standard operating procedures (SoPs) and SLAs to help protect group assets.

• Support periodical review of users and operational masters to ensure maintenance of healthy master data compliant to policies and processes.

• Configure applications in line with the approved setup & configuration documents to maintain the respective financial application in good health to ensure accurate financial information processing.·

• Understand the existing business processes being supported and support the change enablers in training & adoption.·

• Manage own performance & continuous learning plan.

• Help improve performance of the unit, help other members in the team with their development to support succession planning.

Qualifications:

Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) In Technology, Finance or Accounting related would be preferred.

Experience:

2 + yrs in large multi-national companies in a solution support capacity, in financial management and systems implementation, focused on Cloud based applications / product management.

Functional (Finance and/or Accounting) knowledge is highly desired.

Knowledge / skills:

• Global Finance EPM Cloud implementation.

• Functional product knowledge of Financial Applications highly desired which include but not limited to

• ERP Finance (knowledge of AP/AR/GL/FA/Cash Management)

• Enterprise Performance Management (Forecasting, Consolidation, Budgeting & Planning)

• Airline Revenue Accounting, Direct Operating Costs

• Payment Gateway

• Treasury

• Reporting / Analytics

• Master data management·

• Relationship Management and presentation of ideas and business benefits·

• Ability to understand the wider impact of financial applications, understand how it fit in the overall technology landscape and how it enables the finance function.·

• Basic Accounting & Taxation knowledge·

• Advanced Operational Finance Knowledge·

• Ability to understand finance processes from a financial application perspective.

• Experience in handling master management functions, preferably in an airline or aviation group.

• Advanced product management and project management skills.