Director - Finance Applications- EN

Job Description

Are you a process-oriented person with excellent communication skills ? Are you interested in working in a multilingual, dynamic and friendly environment that encourages personal and professional development? We would love to meet you!

As the Director – Finance Applications, you’ll be acting as an intermediary between the accounting departments (Canada, United States, Mexico and Europe), the Workday maintenance and development team, the IT department and SaaS software providers and external services. In collaboration with the IT team, you will have full responsibility for the Finance applications’ infrastructure and will have to continuously provide new solutions aimed at increasing the operational value of Workday, while ensuring the continuity of current activities.

The Director will also ensure overall stakeholder alignment, including communication within and outside the team and business, identification and resolution of interdependencies, appropriate prioritization and execution of project tasks, as well as establishment and monitoring of key objectives.

What does your typical day look like?

• Ensure that application inventory, roadmaps and related guides are up to date, including Workday Finance, Workday HCM, Kainos Smart Suite and Auditoria AI suite;
• Act as a point of contact regarding level 3 technical support issues with our external partner, Application Management Services (“AMS”);
• Participate in the management of annual budgets related to application maintenance services;
• Develop and communicate training materials and documentation to end users and organize hands-on sessions as required as well as other user-related activities;
• Act as the primary Finance contact at Global Excel to ensure applications meet operational needs and systems’ objectives as well as end-user requirements, and identify and resolve system issues;
• Set clear goals and give regular feedback;
  
  

What skills and experience are we looking for?

• University degree or higher education diploma in the technology field;
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in project management;
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in team management;
• Minimum 2 years’ experience with ERP financial software, preferably Workday;
• PMP certification or equivalent, preferable;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, in French and in English;
• Ability to meet travel requirements - up to 10% per year if you are based in Quebec and up to 20% if you are based in Ontario.
• Strong experience with an understanding of financial products and systems architectures, including accounting business processes, financial and management reporting, month-end close processes, regulatory reporting, entity consolidations and multi-currency accounting.