IT Business Consultant

**Purpose**:
**Key responsibilities include**:

- Lead efforts to understand, design, build, implement and sustain best practice Finance solutions
- Lead Design efforts to sustain and improve the business process.
- Work with users and team members to understand business processes and requirements.
- Review existing documentation to understand system design and implementation standards.
- Utilize knowledge of best practices to design IT solutions to meet new and evolving requirements.
- Oversee configuration of SAP to meet design specifications and business requirements.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert to recommend and implement solutions to drive improvements for the functional area. Evaluate alternative procedural and systematic solutions that meet needs while maintaining business standards.
- Provide SME expertise in Process Assessments, evaluate current and desired state.
- Consult with business users on system capabilities.
- Document solution requirements and alternative analysis.
- Recommend solutions to meet business requirements and standards.
- Collaborates with other Enterprise Application Services teams and external partners to achieve high quality integrated solutions.
- Plan and lead projects and overall designs, providing leadership and consulting to project teams to deliver project results. Track progress, communicate milestones and resolve issues.
- Works with business partners to support, identify, gather information, and develop solutions for existing sustain issues and new business requirements.
- Review designs and specifications.
- Develops functional requirements.
- Drives standardization of provided solutions.
- Tests highly integrated business solutions, ensuring quality and effectiveness.
- Support go-live and implementation of IT improvements.
- Communicates status and surfaces issues as needed.
- Embraces and promotes agility within the organization, uses Agile processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team.

**Key Accountabilities**:Strategic**:

- Implement the vision and strategic goals for IT Finance systems.
- Builds relationships with business partners, identifying and structuring solutions to ensure alignment with their requirements.
- Build relationships with vendors to ensure effective utilization of partner capabilities and resources.

**Customers**:

- Ensures business solutions are designed, prototyped and tested to support customer needs by using consistent methods and standards, project management discipline and supporting toolsets.
- Provides leadership towards fulfilling on-time delivery commitments to customers.
- Develops relationships and collaborates with business partners to create value for Sylvamo customers.

**Operational Excellence**:

- Provides leadership and mentoring for continuous quality improvement.
- Maintains the integration and secures integrity of Finance Operating Model design and enabled benefits.
- Assumes a major role in the implementation of large, complex designs.
- Seeks out value added opportunities to improve IT Solutions and Services capabilities.

**Knowledge and Experience**:Functional Skills**:

- 10 years IT experience.
- Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of the Finance Operating Model design and enabling technology.
- Project Management skills.
- Skilled in process management; can translate output of process assessments into clearly defined gap and proposed resolution.
- Strong negotiating and conflict management skills.
- Excellent vendor management skills.
- Broad and deep business process knowledge of the supply chain Operating Model; able to lead and contribute to design and build process and functional deliverables.

**Technical Skills**:

- BS or related required, Masters preferred (major in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration preferred).
- 10 Years SAP Financial modules
- Strong background in Finance process areas and Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Account, and Capital Assets.
- Strong background in managing through complex methodologies.

**Career Architect Leadership Competencies**:Critical**:

- Action Oriented
- Conflict Management
- Customer Focus
- Drive for Results
- Dealing with Ambiguity
- Decision Quality
- Directing Others
- Integrity & Trust
- Organizing
- Perseverance
- Priority Setting
- Problem Solving
- Process Management
- Self Development
- Time Management
- Timely Decision Making
- Written Communications

**Desirable**:

- Managing through Systems
- Organizational Agility
- Presentation Skills
- Standing Alone

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