Technical Operations Lead – Finance Controllership

Job Description SummaryAs a key member of our team, you will be responsible for supporting and maintaining critical applications within the Finance Controllership application landscape, including but not limited to custom developed web applications. You will own and be accountable for application and platform performance, security, and compliance, with a focus on aligning SLAs to operational commitments and ensuring application and data integrity. You will drive process rigor around incident management, change control and all support activities while executing on all governance, risk, and compliance activities within a SOX framework. In addition, you will use expertise in your technical and functional domain to identify and drive opportunities for improvement.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience expected with demonstrated competency and skill.Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Acts as a central escalation point for highly critical and/or highly impactful user application outages and incidents.
• Supports monthly/quarterly/yearly close activities and other critical processes
• Owns prioritization of enhancements and incidents assigned to the team.
• Influences technical team on their decisions.
• Drives design and implementation of roadmap.
• Partners with users and product team to understand application product operational needs
• Defines and tracks KPIs.
• Drives adherence to IT Compliance standards (SOX, ISO) and supports all Audit and Compliance initiatives.
• Communicates operational status to users and leadership.
• Drives resolution of escalated items.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Custom application development and/or support with a focus on Java, Angular.
• Communicating and working across global teams
• Azure DevOps Services
• SQL
• Other Desired Experience
• Azure DevOps Admin
• AWS services
• SOX applications
• Controllership, Finance
• Lean methodology
• Agile methodology

Desired Characteristics:

• Change Agent - Identifies opportunities for necessary changes and pursues/leads them when appropriate. Evaluates progress and involves peers and team members in analyzing strengths and weaknesses in performance. Works with executive stakeholders to embrace the implications of change. Recommends changes that impact strategic business direction. Leads the planning and implementation of change programs that impact critical processes. Subdivides major deliverables into smaller, manageable components and re-appropriates existing solutions to new requirements and situations. Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address problems.
• Collaboration - Establishes & communicates team members' roles in relation to their function and data. Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill. Coordinates role responsibilities with that of others to achieve mutual goals. Encourages groups to work together to resolve problems. Proactively coaches and/or mentors others to improve their contribution to the team. Fosters relationship building between team members and those outside the team. Works with others to achieve goals without regard to band/title. Identifies gaps in roles on teams and is recognized for growing and distributing talent pools across the organization.
• Comfort in Ambiguity - Acts and decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain. Makes decisions and course corrects in response to the feedback from those decisions. Presents results with alternatives and scenarios. Creates new tools and methods for gaining data and driving clarity. Supports the team to drive through ambiguity.
• Communication - Creates stories and utilizes two-way communications. Communicates functional strategy and roadmap with detail for teams to utilize. Describes functional area information to leaders. Coaches others on presentation skills. Collaborates with leadership on mediums and messages that drive the intended direction of the organization with measurable results. Determines the need for theoretical explanations vs. a business actionable answer in a presentation.
• Consulting - Provides options and counsel. Drives dialogues that produce new perspectives and substantial innovation, enhancements, and analysis of consequences. Consults on projects to fit systems or infrastructure, and project goals to their function, and vice versa. Provides risk-assessed options in relation to process enhancement and professional expertise. Consults on data or data infrastructure development projects and identifies when necessary to modify the solution.
• Curiosity/Creativity - Connects ideas and solutions from a broad array of sources (e.g., what other businesses are doing, brainstorming with others). Pilots new ideas and processes that have not been utilized before.
• Decision Making & Risk Management - Participates in the creation of company-wide risk management strategies. Works with senior business leaders to communicate risks, impact, and mitigation plans for the business. Applies best practices to take calculated risks. Takes risks and learns from failures. Encourages ideas from others that may include risk but may provide great gains for the organization.
• Influence - Influences through others, including by use of experts or other third parties. Builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Foresees downstream consequences and tailors communication strategy to support a positive outcome.
• Problem Solving - Identifies future roadblocks and promotes data-based problem solving. Assesses & prioritizes problems in relation to organizational goals. Coordinates the team's work and performance with broader organizational objectives and manages conflicts between them. Advises others in how to solve difficult problems.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed 
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

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