Twitter's Finance Systems team is searching for an experienced, motivated, proactive Senior Finance Systems Manager to join the team! The candidate will lead, manage, and drive critical priorities for Twitter's Finance Org by leading Finance system projects and enhancements of all sizes for Oracle EBS and EPM. You will play a significant role in the team's strategy, objectives, and execution. You will work with a diverse team to manage, review, and vet projects and ensure the solution provided by IT meets the business requirements throughout the implementation process. When leading on multiple projects in a fast paced environment, you are able to clearly articulate and communicate the issues, impacts and outcome in functional / business language and can facilitate and drive decisions with cross functional leaders. In order to have a solid understanding of the project, you can dive into the details of complex analyses without losing sight of the overall objective. An ability to think critically, plan and execute effectively while collaborating with cross functional leaders will be key to success in this role.

The ideal candidate has strong business and functional system acumen with a deep understanding of Finance systems, project management lifecycle, and finance system implementation. This role will establish positive, professional relationships with our major business and IT stakeholders, and act as a trusted functional partner and a respectful challenger. The individual must be a strategic thinker while having the proven track record of building influential alliances across the organization to ensure consistency of intake, vetting, and functional design review process across Finance. Lastly, this position requires excellent people management, organization and leadership skills, proven project management success, business and system analysis, critical thinking, strong functional understanding of enterprise systems, especially Oracle EBS and EPM, and strong communication skills. The candidate must also be able to influence change, adapt to dynamic and ambiguous environments, and be self-directed.

• Lead the entire system implementation and enhancement lifecycle from ensuring clearly defined project scope and requirement aligning to objectives, provide oversight and input of detailed project plans, review supporting data and as is process and workflows, ensure IT design and solution within scope aligning to business requirement and agreed design, presenting business requirements to IT, identify and communicate upstream and downstream system / process impacts, gaps, risk, and dependencies.

• Lead, manage, and mentor a small team of Finance Systems managers to drive Finance system projects / system enhancements with solid understanding of highly complex business issues that have significant impact to the Finance function and across Twitter.

• Partner with IT to provide functional oversight of Finance enterprise systems (Oracle EBS R12.2.9 and EPM Cloud) and EPM application functional maintenance/enhancement, self-serve reporting development, and security and access review owned by the Finance Systems team.

• Act as a main point of contact for IT and cross functional teams outside of Finance.

• Engage and participate in System / product selection evaluation. Review and vet proposals, RFP responses, or other documents describing organizational products and services and fit gap analysis in response to requests from business.

• Lead working sessions, reviews, and other discussions involving relevant business and IT stakeholders to ensure high-quality deliverables.

• Partner closely with the PM team to ensure alignment on project progress and communication to business.

• Review and vet the business requirements and user stories. Drive, align, and present requirement vetting and system solution/design review meetings with IT and business and PMs.

• Lead, drive, and manage system related change management activities, including but not limited to design system training strategy, material and system functionality training with the PM team and business. Assess necessary system readiness activities and collaborate with Program managers to integrate them into the detailed project plans.

• Manage and align project and enhancement prioritization with IT based on business prioritization.

• Define UAT scope and strategy with IT and align with PM team and business and drive and lead E2E UAT with the support from PM, including follow up with IT on issues, reconfiguration, and retesting. Provide guidance on writing test scripts and entry and exit criteria.

• Monitor system issues / bugs with IT and business and report out, and provide tier 0 support for EPM.

• Provide status updates during IT phases for project/enhancements. Keep the PM team informed. Co-lead weekly standup meetings with IT and midpoint project check ins.

• 8-12 years of relevant Finance functional system experience leading, driving, and managing implementation projects and enhancements for Oracle EBS and EPM.

• Exceptional verbal & written communication skills (includes the capability to listen to the needs of others, research and comprehend complex matters, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner and present findings as well as recommendations, orally and written).

• Experience with global Finance operations.

• Solid experience with all aspects of system implementation including, but not limited to, requirement review, solution/design review, system training, cutover and go live activities.

• Experience in building, leading, motivating and developing a high performance Finance Systems team.

• Strong ability to develop clear and concise functional system documentation and slide decks to facilitate discussions / decisions with stakeholders at all levels.

• Strategic thinking and understanding of the intention and purpose of decisions to be made.

• Strong driver and able to work in a fast paced and ambiguous environment.

• People management and mentoring experience preferred.

• Strong functional knowledge of Finance enterprise systems, especially Oracle EBS (GL/FA/AP/PO/INV/CM/IMS), Cloudio, Supplier Connect, Sabrix, and Oracle EPM (Financial close and consolidation, Profitability and cost management, Account reconciliation cloud service, Planning, Narrative Reporting, Enterprise Data Management)

Education

• BS in business, finance, systems, computer science or other related field

• PMP Certification desirable

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