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TECH · Dubai
Transformation Tech Delivery Finance Lead
INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT
For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.
Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.
Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.
To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.
What you'll be doing
As a Transformation Tech Delivery Finance Lead, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership as well as ensuring the successful implementation of the Finance ERP solutions in the scope of the Transformation program. Your responsibilities will also include, but are not limited to:
Handle the technical delivery of the Finance scope, ensuring designs reflect business requirements, effective solution governance has been applied, rigorous testing has been completed and a solid plan is in place to transition said solutions to ‘business as usual’. Manage and coordinate across cross-functional internal business and technology teams, as well as large numbers of external personnel provided by system integrators. Provide expert guidance on the SAP ERP solution architecture, integration, and technical design across the workstream.
Ensure alignment of the ERP implementation with the Group’s broader Tech strategy and architecture roadmap (i.e. advances and changes in taxation requirements, transfer pricing policies, Treasury evolution and payments landscape, latest finance processes and controls) by maintaining connection and alignment to the Group Tech and Finance teams plans. Collaborate with functional and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications Lead the design and development of the technical aspects of the SAP ERP system, including configurations, customizations, and system integrations Work with the Transformation Program Architecture team to ensure that the solution adheres to best practices and enterprise architecture standards Prepare and submit change requests in alignment with Business Process Owners and Architects, representing technical elements of these changes in relevant Change Boards. Manage relationships with external vendors, system integrators, and SAP consultants to ensure timely and quality delivery of technical solutions. Oversee the performance of third-party vendors and ensure that they deliver in accordance with contractual commitments. Lead the integration of SAP ERP with existing systems, third-party applications, and other technologies in use by the Group Identify the transition states and interim integrations to legacy systems that may be required, and work with Group Tech team to agree on the resources and expertise needed to deliver (Oracle EBS, Oracle EPM, FIS Integrity). Manage the internal and external resources required to enable the above changes. Coordinate with other Tech leads from different workstreams to ensure smooth and seamless data flows across the system landscape. Align the data migration strategy for the functional workstream, ensuring accurate and secure data transfer from legacy systems to SAP ERP. Pro-actively identify where changes from legacy to new ERP may create a large amount of data transformation and migration efforts and flag accordingly. Work closely with data teams to ensure that data structures, formats, and quality standards are met. Provide functional expertise to ensure that the roles proposed as part of IAM fit business needs and balance business usability and governance / control. Provide knowledge of business processes and system capabilities to inform the correct sequencing of cutover and release plans. Ensure that cutovers and the implications on business processes (i.e. freeze periods) are well understood and communicated back to business functions.
What you'll need to succeed
You have a minimum of 8 to 10 years of experience in technology implementation and management, which includes being a functional lead or in a similar role in large-scale transformation programs. You preferably hold a PMP, ITIL, or ERP certifications. You have a strong understanding of business processes and how they are supported by ERP systems. You have experience working with ERP and enterprise systems, preferably SAP, in design, deployment, testing, and support. You are experienced in managing large hybrid teams comprised of internal and external resources, as well managing external vendors to a budget / target and ensuring close scope management. You possess strong leadership capabilities, and excellent communication skills to work with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors.
What we can offer you
With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.
We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.
We Invite All Applicants to Apply
It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.
We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.
TECH · Dubai
Transformation Tech Delivery Finance Lead
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