Manager, EPM Applications

Responsibilities

• Duties and Responsibilities Works closely with business users in evaluating solution/technologies to support their needs including working with external vendors with contract agreements.
• Assumes IT ownership of the applications that support Budgeting/Forecasting, Financial Consolidations, Property Valuations, and potentially other verticals.
• Leads the identification, evaluation, and responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to streamline and automate EPM and related business processes, improve forecasting and decision support, and enhance user productivity.
• Communicates clearly and effectively with business users and teams through all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Works closely with IT development, middleware, and infrastructure staff to ensure solutions meet business needs and provide high levels of reliability, performance, and security.
• Ensures adherence to departmental standards, methodology, and policies.
• Works closely with internal Audit and Cybersecurity teams to minimize risks and ensure compliance.
• Provides routine reports and status updates to IT and business leaders.
• Acts as the project manager at times for IT related projects.
• Maintains technology lifecycle tracker and assist in projection of hardware/software upgrades.
• Responds to outage emergencies and coordinates response activities between the business customers, the providers, and IT groups.
• Acts as the designated IT point of contact for system providers and chairs meetings with system providers and IT representatives.
• Develops and maintains the EPM application roadmap, aligning platform enhancements, release planning, and investment priorities with Finance and business objectives.
• Oversees data integrity across EPM applications and source systems, including integrations, metadata, validation, reconciliations, and controls that support accurate and timely planning and financial reporting.
• Oversees ongoing support of the Infrastructure and Applications.
• Performs lifecycle management activities.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7+ years of IT experience with a background in managing and operating software solutions from implementation and into support
• Experience working on projects with defined scope, budget, and timelines

Experience with production support management and troubleshooting

• Experience with full Software Development Life Cycle as well as Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience working with business users to define and prioritize solution support
• Experience evaluating 3rd-party software solution as well as buy vs. build analysis

Experience working with software vendors and negotiating contracts

• Knowledge of data architecture and business analytics solution support
• Knowledge of diagnosing and determining root cause of system failures/malfunctions
• Knowledge of integration solutions via APIs, file transfers, publish/subscribe, etc.
• Holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science or finance, or possesses equivalent experience
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to work on cross functional teams, can multitask and manage time independently with little direction
• Experience working directly with business users and other non-technical groups
• Good communication skills, both oral and written
• Ability to manage a diverse workload and set appropriate priorities

Job Location

Corporate Indianapolis