What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director - System Enablement position at Publicis Groupe?
Company Description
Publicis Groupe, known for its award-winning creativity, best-in-class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world’s third largest communications group. With 80,000 colleagues in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs: Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis.Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health.
Since 2014 with the acquisition of Sapient, Publicis Groupe has undergone a profound transformation by scaling a new model connecting data, creativity, and technology. The Groupe has continued this journey with the 2019 acquisition of Epsilon to further scale the data-led offering and provide true momentum to our client’s own transformation.
This model, with a country-led approach, is called the “Power of One” and gathers all the capabilities of the Groupe under one roof, putting clients at the core of the organization.
Job Description
The Director BI System Enablement will provide strategic directions to deliver optimized and harmonized processes within PCNA, defining and spreading best practices and leveraging all Groupe tools (Altair, GDW, HFM, Loading Doc…) in order to deliver improved quality, automation and streamlined processes and to minimize risks in PCNA financial processes.
This role will also manage our Altair System Analyst team. The Altair System Analyst team’s focus is to work closely with the business units to gain in-depth understanding of business strategy, processes, services, roadmap and the context in which the business operates. This role is key to understanding the technical and system capabilities needed to address business challenges, driving efficiencies and
reliability into our BI team processes.
Primary Functions and Responsibilities
- Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Groupe Financial Systems and apply this to the development, execution and improvement of action plans by providing advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices
- Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
- Streamline and standardizing PCNA finance processes across agencies/brands with the PCNA Controller in coordination with PCNA finance Directors,
- Document the new standardized processes, create flowcharts and narratives and communicate these within teams to ensure compliance,
- Identify issues and propose action plan leveraging best practices,
- Train teams on new processes, drive change management within agencies,
- Be the link between Altair core team and PCNA finance team for any Altair developments (RA, Job Closure, Reporting),
- Provide recommendations to improve current PCNA agency financial processes and to ensure that teams are working as efficiently as possible,
- Provide managerial oversight to BI System Analysis team
Transactional Support
- Develop and ensure change management in PCNA hubs to further develop automation using Altair Solution at its best
- Review the end to end job creation/life cycle processes with the job management Dr to ensure there is as much as possible automation and as less as possible human interaction,
- Review, in coordination with Corporate accounting Director, all ways to simplify and harmonize and improve the monthly finance closing, using Altair efficiently through roll-out of best practices and focusing on automation,
- Work in coordination with Re:Sources as needed,
- Assist the PCNA controller with special projects as needed.
Qualifications
Education/ Work Experience:
- Bachelor Degree with 10 years with Altair (SAP) expertise, business acumen, financial processes deep understanding.
Knowledge /Skills
- Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Excellent organizational and problem solving skills
- Project management skills
- Autonomous and proactive
- Team work as a core value
- Self-motivator, out of the box thinker with passion to drive reengineering throughout Finance
- Excellent system, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Functional and Technical SAP expertise
- Good sense of urgency and ownership
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
