Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DIRECTV is a leading provider of digital television entertainment, and they are seeking a Director of Finance Technology. This role involves acting as a liaison between Finance and IT, managing financial systems, and leading projects related to finance applications.
Responsibilities
- Manage/support/lead the business for DIRECTV Applications that include Oracle EPM, Oracle Fixed Assets, Oracle Project, Oracle Accounts Payable, Accounting and Oracle Procurement
- Project Management for various projects that come up either within or outside of the Oracle financial framework in support of Finance and related Operational teams
- Leadership, staff management that would include coaching, developing, and leading employees, and guiding and supporting contractors/3rd party vendors
Skills
- Supervisor and leadership experience is required for this position
- Develop project plan to meet business deadlines and clearly articulate milestone-based deliverables and owners for each task
- Schedule and drive project status meeting on an ongoing periodic schedule
- Gather project status from team members and compile weekly status report
- Identify issues / risks early on and develop mitigating strategies
- Escalate project risks to leadership
- Develop and manage project staffing and financial budgets
- Review and approve deliverables
- Provide guidance to project team
- Identify project schedule risks early on and develop strategies to bring the project back on schedule
- Strong verbal and written communications
- Hands on experience with Finance ERP implementation (GL, AP, AR, FA, and Project Accounting, etc.)
- Ability to drive workshops with business to gather business requirements
- Assess business requirements and advise business on best business practices
- Experience with extended end-to-end architecture solution and data flow
- Ability to identify gaps and present solution options with pros and cons for critical gaps / issues and make recommendations
- Strong accounting background to provide finance and accounting coverage for IT projects such as AR, Billing, Project Accounting, Indirect Procurement, SC, Inv Mgmt. etc
- Work with technology team and SI to drive the solution to meet the business requirements
- Develop overall implementation baseline plans and provide clear direction to technical team for solution development and testing cycles
- Track the progress against the baseline plans and escalate issues to program leadership
- Experience managing team of technical resources
- Strong problem-solving skills to identify current issues / problems and develop practical solutions
- Experience with root cause analysis leading to changes in configuration, data issues corrections, process optimization, and integration error correction procedures
- Experience writing functional specifications for integration
- Document business scenarios and test scripts and support CRP, SIT, and UAT testing cycles
- Direct and lead other contractors or DIRECTV direct employees
- Manage/support/lead the business for DIRECTV Applications that include Oracle EPM, Oracle Fixed Assets, Oracle Project, Oracle Accounts Payable, Accounting and Oracle Procurement
- Project Management for various projects that come up either within or outside of the Oracle financial framework in support of Finance and related Operational teams
- Leadership, staff management that would include coaching, developing, and leading employees, and guiding and supporting contractors/3rd party vendors
Benefits
- DIRECTV's compensation structure is designed to be market-competitive and fully supports efforts to attract and retain employees.
- It is the company's policy to offer pay that is competitive with other employers in the local market.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
- Please note that the salary ranges reflect base salary only and do not include bonus or benefits - when you consider all of these together, it represents a pretty impressive total compensation package.
- This is a remote position that can be located anywhere in the contiguous United States.
Company Overview
At DIRECTV, we believe TV is meant to be enjoyed. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in El Segundo, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.directv.com.