Central Finance Deployment Leader- SAP

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Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC and refrigeration. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About This Role

The Central Finance (CFin) team is looking for an accounting and controlling expert with system implementation experience to lead the transition of many heterogeneous ERPs into our SAP Central Finance application.

The CFin project consists of three phases, data foundation, shared services enablement and consolidation/intercompany.  The data foundation phase for includes applying the common chart of accounts cost centers, profit centers and business partners from legacy ERP’s to CFin.  The deployment lead will manage a deployment team, work with the CFin workstream leads and business subject matter experts to following the deployment playbook and manage the integration of each ERP into the CFin environment including testing.  Business benefits the deployment lead will help realize include enabling technology to standardize financial reporting, management reporting, transaction processing, working with Controllers organization to establish a statutory reporting COE and internal audit on continuous monitoring opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute Carrier’s vision to simplify its reporting by implementing a common information model, embrace digital tools and simplify its operating environment

• Work cross-functionally to deploy the scope and requirements of the program, validate adoption of the global design, identify harmonization requirements and ensure that the deployments are managed on schedule

• Report to project team leadership the status of each deployment, deployment risk and mediation plans.

• Ensure alignment across businesses, functions and the digital technology team

• Partner with testing lead to ensure robust test plans are developed and executed

• Provide input to change management and training on user readiness for go-live

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or Economics

• 10+ years Finance/Accounting experience

• 3 years of experience implementing SAP systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree and/or certification preferred

• Experience working with multinational corporate finance function requirements

• Ability to think strategically and bring original analysis to bear to resolve complex issues

• Ability to think out of the box, manage and drive change across the organization

• Experience in project management

• Excellent understanding of accounting and finance related business processes

• Attention to detail

• Ability to implement standardized, global processes

• Outstanding communication skills, both oral and written

• High energy and positive leader even while working under pressure

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