Head of Integration, Corporate Finance & Legal Applications (M/F – any location)

EQUANS’ Group IT Department is organized around Shared Service Lines that deliver global services to all the group’s entities.

The Group Applications Shared Service Line (called SLS Group Apps) is part of EQUANS Group IT and provides common IT solutions and services required to support EQUANS’ businesses through 3 main missions :

• Delivering IT projects and services in their scope in accordance with the schedule, quality and cost targets agreed with Business customers
• Operating the global applications and solutions that support EQUANS’ Businesses in the most competitive way
• Industrializing IT solutions and reducing the complexity of the enterprise architecture and application portfolio

The SLS Group Apps is organized into functional areas: Finance/Legal, HR, Procurement, etc…

Reporting to the SLS Group Applications Director, you will be responsible for the design and integration of Group Financial and Legal processes across all platform functions for EQUANS businesses. You will also be responsible for the deployment of financial & legal systems within EQUANS for the globalization of these processes.

You will be responsible for defining and maintaining Financial & Legal solutions (processes, applications, and data) in their respective domains. Your scope of activities may cover more than one technology.

Project requests can be initiated by a business entity, SLS Group Apps or another SLS.

Missions :

In this role, your primary activities will include:

• Direct management of 2 business analysts & 1 Matrix report SDM
• Work closely with EQUANS business process owners to ensure the end-to-end integrated nature of the solution
• Make technology selection decisions in their respective domains to reflect business requirements (e.g., Diapason, SAP BPC& BFC, Legal Cluster, DocuSign, MobileXpense; etc.)
• Define standards and drive the solution process in respective area
• Continually strive to identify and specify new areas of value creation by working on or adding new processes and capabilities
• Take ownership of domain blueprints and solutions in consultation with the Support Functions Architect
• Define, document, and manage the business domain architecture(s)
• Assists in leading the deployment of large programs within EQUANS
• Defining the strategic roadmap for EQUANS’ Finance and legal applications
• Optimization of the application landscape through the use of Finance process standardization

Support the integration of the Group Applications in companies which have been recently acquired

• Ensure platforms are patched in line with security and business requirements, and that they remain in support through upgrades or relevant version changes
• Build close relationships with both peers internally and technology partners to ensure outstanding and seamless delivery
• Support business and technical audits as required
• KPI’s & SLAs for outsourced services
• Review regularly options for cost savings and ensuring optimum run with agencies e.g. FINOPS
• Ensure we adhere to licensing models for all our applications, platforms both in terms of cost and use
• Support budget and Actua budget cycles in line with corporate timetables and needs
• Understand contract commitments, re-negotiate where required with support from Legal & Procurement

To do this, he/she works in collaboration with the group’s architects and cybersecurity experts

The profile we are looking for :

Technical and functional skills

• Deep understanding of processes and business requirements
• Knowledge of financial consolidation, treasury and legal
• Knowledge of middleware capabilities
• General knowledge of other IT domains: workstation, identity management (AD, AAD, SSO, MFA), messaging and collaboration (O365) and Cybersecurity
• Able to navigate in V Cycle projects or Agile environment (Scrum or similar)
• Ability to work in collaboration with an offshore outsourcer who will be the run operator and responsible for delivery
• Fluent in written and spoken English (most of the work is carried out in English, meetings are in English, the outsourcer speaks English)

Behavioral skills

• Good communicator
• Ability to work in a team upfront and remotely with various outsourcers.
• Sense of service and quality
• Ability to interact with persons at many levels (leader, manager, engineer, architects, administrator, operator)
• Agile and adaptability
• Logical and analytical mind
• Ability to identify problems and propose solutions
• Very strong organisational skills with the ability to respect deadlines and plan and prioritise accordingly
• Aim to be a trusted partner to the business for all aspects of delivery

Experience and training

• Bac + 5 (computer engineering degree or similar)
• +5 years of experience in an international, complex and high demanding environment
• Experience working collaboratively with external service providers / outsourcing
• Excellent cost estimation, budgeting, and financial management skills with experience of managing budgets