JDE Functional SME

Summary: The JDE Functional SME role involves partnering with business unit leadership to implement technology solutions that align with strategic initiatives. The position requires managing stakeholder expectations, leading multiple DIT projects, and ensuring the successful adoption of solutions within the assigned business unit. The role also emphasizes the importance of continuous evaluation and optimization of processes to enhance user experience and system efficiency. A strong background in financial systems and JD Edwards ERP applications is essential for success in this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with assigned business unit leadership, understand business needs, and implement technology solutions aligned with strategic initiatives.
• Perform consistent and deliberate stakeholder management, change management and communication including executive presentations, status reporting, training and creative project engagement activities.
• Work with internal partners to understand requirements, implement, test, deploy and support technology solutions, while keeping scalability and supportability in mind.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve system efficiency, and enhance user experience through continuous evaluation and optimization.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, identifying gaps between needs and current capabilities/capacity and work to find innovative solutions to close those gaps.
• DIT point-of-contact for the assigned functional area and assists subject matter experts with ensuring data integrity, testing of system changes, report creation and analyzing data flows for process improvement opportunities.
• Own the end-to-end product management process for assigned business applications and ERP enabled processes (JD Edwards) ensuring alignment between the technical platform, business strategy, and end-user needs.
• Contribute to the development of a cohesive and aligned strategic roadmap from a variety of disparate sources (demand, ideas, business strategy, DIT strategy).
• Ownership of project outcomes and successful adoption to assigned business unit.
• Lead multiple concurrent DIT projects with Finance and Supply Chain and manage scope, quality, budget and schedule and effective risk management to meet or exceed objectives.
• Functional Consultancy & Requirements Management - Gather business requirements for DIT solutions including business cases, ROI analysis, and functional specifications.
• Solution Architecture, design, build, and functional test - Guide the development and delivery of the best-in-class technology solutions.
• Ensure adherence to project schedules and work effectively with peers to set technology priorities and conduct long-term planning.
• Collaborate with architecture, Technical Solutions and Infrastructure & Operations teams to ensure solution compatibility with standards, strategy and service model.
• Support business counterparts on ongoing business processes including issue triage and coordination of the resolution around the core ERP and satellite applications.
• Manage the transition of new solutions to support through development of knowledge base articles for Tier 1 support and providing Tier 2 and 3 support as appropriate.

Key Skills:

• A bachelor s degree in information technology, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years experience in financial systems, including implementation and operational support in a large, multi-faceted organization.
• 7+ years experience of JD Edwards ERP Financial applications, business processes, and reporting.
• Subject matter expertise and substantial experience in system and process supporting financial systems. Exposure to Supply Chain process and systems secondary but desirable.
• Conceptual expertise in implementing secure and sustainable architecture and processes.
• Strategic and creative thinking/problem solving which creates enterprise value.
• Supplier Service Management and Organizational Change Management.
• Learning agility and curiosity.
• Strong strategic planning and project delivery skills.
• Ability to communicate, challenge and influence effectively in group settings.
• Project management (Agile and Waterfall) and business analysis and design thinking, along with the ability to deliver sustained results/projects in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: Remote

IR35 Status: Outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT