Role and Responsibilities:
- Lead the conceptualization and planning of new IT finance solutions.
- Partnership with busienss leads to lead RFP for the new S/4HANA project.
- Lead the development of the business cases for new IT systems and seek approval for the solutions and funding
- Lead the team to implement new IT system/s and ensure system is implemented on time, meet requirement and within budget
- Manage the project’s budget to ensure full cost recovery.
- Manage the project’s capital and operating budgets to ensure compliance to project utilisation
- Emphasize, develop and maintain sound project management skills amongst the team members to achieve project objectives.
- Ensure that project adhere to established program/project governance principles and conform to approved technology and security standards and policy.
- Manage overall vendors’ service delivery and relationships, drive resolution of conflicts and issues, manage risk and implement mitigation measures, drive quality improvement and implementation of security measures.
- Drive strong user engagement to ensure high user satisfaction, ensure there is sufficient engagement and communication with key stake-holders (CXOs, directors and department heads) and external agencies
- Manage the resource planning, recruitment and ensure the team achieves the targeted resource and budget utilization
- Supervise, coach and mentor staff so that staff performance and team capabilities are enhanced and strengthened.
Requirements / Qualifications:
- At least 10 years of relevant IT project experiences with implementation involvement in at least 8-10 project cycles.
- Operational and Implementation experiences in financial systems such as SAP FICO and SAP S/4HANA(preferred)
- Strong knowledge in financials systems and finance business processes.
- Has project managerial experience with hands-on experience in seeking funding, RFP, IT system procurement, project implementation, system integration, system operations and vendor management in medium-scale to large-scale projects.
- Experience in healthcare industry is a plus.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills to manage multiple stakeholders including users, CFOs, senior management, IT teams, project teams, vendors.
- Sound understanding and hands on experience in all phases of the project lifecycle.
- Strong problem solving and decision making
- Excellent analytical skills with “big picture” mindset and attention to relevant details
- Resilience, drive and get-things-done-correctly mindset
- Ability to manage stress and workload effectively
- Effective and strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills
- Strong people management skills, ability to drive collaboration among staff, lead, motivate, train, inspire and encourage staff
