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The Business Technology Application Director for Finance and Corporate Functions will be the primary contact person regarding all technology matters. The director will be managing a team of business and functional analysts, including external partners with full accountability of supporting systems, delivering projects to the organization. This position is also accountable for defining technology strategy, planning, evaluating, and selecting the right capabilities for the organization, considering both process and technology perspectives.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Life cycle planning of business applications :
Throughout the phases of strategizing, architect, select, deploy, operate, evolve, and retire, the business technology application director manages the application group that has specific responsibility for building or configuring, maintaining or enhancing, and eventually decommissioning applications through their life cycle.
Leadership and Management :
Oversee all activities that optimize the value, cost, and risk of finance and corporate functions applications:
Provide leadership, vision, and direction to the applications organization to ensure it will contribute to the company achieving its goals.
Work with Sr. IT leadership to develop overall IT strategy in the context of the business strategy.
Develop productive relationships with business leaders across the organization to influence how applications can enable new sources of value.
Define and enhance methodologies and practices for the application life cycle management in line with best practice and practical experience of continuous improvement.
Ensure that application processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies, and applicable standards and legislation.
Manage application group personnel, developing their skills and capabilities to meet the needs of the organization, as well as building on existing recruiting capabilities to address new needs and skills gaps.
Implement and manage application life cycle management status reporting, metrics, and benchmarks.
Manage relationships with major vendors and service providers to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization.
Conduct regular surveys of stakeholder satisfaction with applications, publish the results, and, where necessary, implement action plans to improve satisfaction.
Application Governance, Strategy and Delivery :
Primary responsibility is to ensure the applications cost-effectively meet the needs of the business by:
Overseeing the assessment of the technical and business fitness of the application portfolio and their associated costs and risks.
Facilitating the application governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications must support.
Working with stakeholders and the application governance council to define a prioritized set of business outcomes and application work to accomplish those outcomes within the limitations of the application budget.
Working with stakeholders to accomplish this application work in a way that improves the business and technical fitness of the application portfolio and minimizes its ongoing support costs.
Overseeing the application organization’s successful delivery of these business outcomes in partnership with business colleagues.
Overseeing benefits realization to ensure that business outcomes are achieved.
Overseeing support activities in conjunction with infrastructure and operations to ensure the applications perform well in production.
Working with the IT Information security leadership to ensure that the organization’s applications are effectively secured and that risks are mitigated.
Budgeting, Finance and Administration :
Responsible for the day-to-day management of the application organization (including staffing, budgeting, and other relevant management functions) and is required to hold the application delivery teams accountable for optimizing the cost, risk and value of applications throughout their life cycle.
Requirements:
A bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration, computer science, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible relevant experience in systems management, including creating partnerships, implementing application governance, and understanding the underlying technologies needed to enable innovation and transformation across the organization.
Demonstrated experience with developing systems strategy, policies, and procedures, as well as successfully executing programs that meet or exceed expectations in a dynamic environment.
Proven leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
Effective written and oral communication skills. Bi-lingual (French/English) preferred.
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