IT Senior Manager - Finance

What you will do

Come join the IT Department of the Year as recognized by the American Business Association! Led by Milwaukee Business Journal's CIO of the year, our IT services continue to play a key role in helping Clarios' growth as a world leader in advanced energy storage solutions. By joining our team, you will help operate the IT landscape, address risk and compliance, and enable new business capabilities. We do this by focusing on People, Delivery, Quality, Cost, and Commercial. We want you to be a part of our journey! Come join us as an IT Manager- Finance. This IT role partners with business leadership to support and enable the Business Strategy and Goals.

How you will do it

This IT role partners with US Finance organizations and respective Leadership on key initiatives in support of the definition of the overall Finance Strategy.

• Shape demand for new IT capabilities to prioritize technology investments; Deliver ~$2-5M/year worth of new capabilities via project delivery and management; gather business requirements and work with business to achieve value realization. Lead successful change management efforts.
• Partner to define strategy and roadmaps and to deploy business solutions that drive business KPIs. Lead/influence cross-functional teams experienced in critical business processes and enabling technologies.
• Business community relationship building, influencing, prioritizing, and solution scoping to improve business processes, data quality and current solution usage/leverage. Actively engages business to realize solution benefits/results.
• Work closely with Finance managers/directors and are the bridge between the technology and reporting teams.
• Build business requirements, manage the sequence, and deliver business intent and execution following predetermined product strategy for offers.
• Actively partner with business stakeholders, IT leaders and project sponsors to manage program/project scope, risks and issues to gain consensus on go forward approach/plans.
• Lead and develop internal Clarios IT talent; 1-4 members
• Manage customer relationships and expectations by developing a communication process to keep others up-to-date on project results. Stay current with customer needs and strategies. Identify ways to increase adoption and customer satisfaction.
• Identifying and initiating projects; managing resources; driving the resolution of issues; and holding self and team accountable for results
• Critical thinker and analytical abilities, exceptional communication skills, and strong leadership and collaborative skills, as well as project management skills
• Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
• Identify, create and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level;
• Developing process improvements or re-engineering and recommending elimination. Develop and execute test plans
• Drive coordination within IT functional towers such as PMO, Information Management (Reporting), security, data migration and our AMS team for post Go-Live support transitions.
• Manage implementation partner vendor relationships.

What we look for

• Candidate must understand HR and Finance related processes, SAP or QAD ERP knowledge areas is desired.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer science or related discipline required (graduate level degree preferred).
• 10 + years IT and/or project management experience with at least four full life-cycle ERP projects and two global projects.
• Demonstrated mastery as a project manager, delivering successful IT project and/or operational excellence (Six Sigma) initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including ability to work in collaborative team environments and establish and maintain on-going business relationships.
• Proven experience in negotiating difficult matters, influencing others to achieve results, and facilitating facilitates cross functional project teams.
• Attracts, Develops and Engages Employees & Encourages Excellence
• Collaborates Across Boundaries & Impacts across Cultures
• Ability to travel up to 20%, as needed by the business

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Who we are:

Clarios is the creator behind the world's most recognizable car battery brands. We are the car battery found in most new vehicles including leading brands such as Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan. Our 16,000 employees develop, manufacture, and distribute batteries for virtually every type of vehicle. We recover, recycle, and reuse up to 99% of our battery materials, leading sustainability practices in our industry. Clarios, formerly Johnson Controls Battery Group, is currently a Brookfield portfolio company. Learn more about us at www.clarios.com.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please apply. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is key to challenging the status quo. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process by emailing [email protected]. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity in our teams in terms of work experience, area of expertise, gender, ethnicity, and all other characteristics protected by laws in the countries where we operate. For more information on our commitment to sustainability, diversity, and equal opportunity, please read our latest report. We want you to know your rights because EEO is the law.

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