Strategic SAP & BPC Finance Systems Lead

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.Westlake Management Services Inc. in Houston, TX seeks Sr. Manager – IS Financial Systems. Worksite: 5444 Westheimer Road, Suite 700, Houston, TX 77056. Must put job code (R32302) on resume and on cover letter.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESFacilitate prioritization and allocation of capital and expense budgets for IS Financial System Projects and Application Support.Liaise with Accounting & Finance stakeholders (C level executives, Controllership team, Segment Controllers, etc.); Business Units; and IS leadership team to develop a 3 to 5 year, rolling, strategic roadmap for Westlake Financial business processes and associated applications.Facilitate delivery of IS Financial System Projects that meet business requirements, at the highest Economic Value Added (EVA) return, on time and within budget.Oversee the IS Major Financial System Project Portfolio process by monitoring and reporting on active IS projects as well as strategic planning with management on the overall project roadmap.Provide oversight of IS project estimating, budgeting, planning and scheduling.Provide project status updates that include execution against plan and deviation analysis, and maintain a project repository that contains all standardized project progress reports and issues tracking.Manage and/or provide guidance to employees of the IS SAP/BPC Application Team.Create or support the creation of required reports in response to business user and IT management’s needs.Establish and maintain communications with business sponsors and business owners to ensure user satisfaction is maintained.Manage and resolve support requests in compliance with annual Application Support goals and service levels for SAP & BPC.Oversee operations and maintenance of SAP and BPC functions including relevant configuration and work closely with the IS Technical team, who is responsible for ABAP Development and other non-SAP application development, to ensure secure and reliable operations as well as Application Architecture consistency and integrity.Oversee operations and maintenance of third-party applications interfaced with the SAP system and primarily used by the Accounting & Finance Organization such as BlackLine, Lease Accelerator, GetPaid, Integrity, Vertex, Concur, etc.Develop and maintain a resource plan to ensure that projects are properly staffed and that financial systems are adequately supported.Demonstrate change management capabilities to ensure effective adoption of new and existing financial system solutions across Westlake companies.Monitor operation of critical SAP and BPC Processes and Services.Review, approve and test software updates.Provide Project Management for related service requests for new systems, functionality, upgrades, etc.Conduct research and make recommendations on Business Application products, services, and standards in support of new business requirements.Monitor new financial technology trends and work with business users to introduce the appropriate solutions.Regarding security: enforce established SAP, BPC and other Application Security access controls; review Security Profile changes to ensure private and sensitive data is protected; and coordinate or perform application and security audits.Understand and follow Standard System Life Cycle Methods, Quality Assurance Testing and Sarbanes Oxley Program Change Controls.Coordinate and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to the SAP and BPC Application environments.Ensure training materials and user skills are current and coordinate necessary user training.Any and all other assignments as required.EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONSMinimum Educational Requirement: Bachelor's degree in Accounting.Minimum Experience Requirement: Exp. as Mgr SAP FICO Consultant; Mgr SAP BPC Consultant or other title/occupation in which 5 yrs of SAP FICO exp. in ECC 6.0 EHP 8 or >; 5 yrs of SAP BPC exp. in NetWeaver 10.01 or > was gained.Alternate Requirements: Exp. as Mgr SAP FICO Consultant; Mgr SAP BPC Consultant or other title/occupation in which 7 yrs of SAP FICO exp. in ECC 6.0 EHP 8 or >; 7 yrs of SAP BPC exp. in NetWeaver 10.01 or > was gained.Travel Requirement: Up to 25% Domestic and International.Partial telecommuting – 2 days per week.Please apply online at: is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.If you are an active Westlake employee (or an employee of any Westlake affiliates), please do not apply here. You will apply via the Jobs Hub application in Workday. #J-18808-Ljbffr Westlake Chemical