Senior IT Project Manager - Finance

Daikin Europe; Oostkamp; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home 2 days a week

Permanent contract and training

Job summary

Daikin Europe is seeking an enthusiastic SAP Project Lead to support Finance, Accounting and Costing processes across the EMEA region. You will coordinate, structure and promote finance processes, while managing projects and implementing changes with a team of internal and offshore IT colleagues.

You will combine project management with IT functional analysis, present to key users and management, and contribute to future IT roadmaps including AI evolutions.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in business, economics or technology.
• 5+ years of IT project management or functional analysis experience.
• Strong analytical, innovative mindset and ability to present to groups.
• Excellent English language skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project leads across FI/CO area for international rollouts.
• Structure and promote finance processes throughout the EMEA organization.
• Document deliverables and hand over to IT Operations Team with clear handovers.
• Collaborate with business, IT colleagues and offshore team to analyze and implement improvements.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Innovative spirit

Excellent communication

Team player

Education

Master's degree in business, economics or technology

Job description

We are looking for a SAP Project Lead to support the processes related to Finance, Accounting and Costing.

Our IT Center EMEA counts 3 departments: IT Planning (PLAN), IT Development (BUILD) and IT Infrastructure (RUN). IT Development has 2 competence centres: Madrid and Oostkamp. You will be part of IT Development in Oostkamp.

Our Oostkamp department consists of 45 internal colleagues strengthened with external consultants and an offshore team. The group is young and dynamic with a good team spirit and open communication structure. We implement innovative IT solutions for our 7500+ Daikin colleagues all over Europe & Middle East.

To help further digitize our FI/CO processes, we are currently looking for someone who’s ready to tackle the challenge of combining both project management and IT functional analysis. In collaboration with all stakeholders from business, together with your team, you will manage projects, develop improvement proposals and implement change requests.

Job content

We are looking for an enthusiastic IT Project Manager & Functional Analyst to coordinate, structure and promote our finance processes throughout our entire EMEA company.

After a training period, guided by your team and in the context of our company values, your main challenges will be:

• Acting as the Project Lead of different (international) projects within the FI/CO area. You will be involved in roll-out projects across EMEA and projects implementing new functionality.
• In doing so, you take into account every step of the “Daikin Software Development Life Cycle” and the “project management methodology” to deliver high-quality IT solutions towards business. This also includes the presence of clear documentation and the hand-over to our IT Operations Team. This will require you to coordinate a team of internal & external IT colleagues and developers.
• Coordinating, analysing & implementing improvement requests in your area of expertise in close cooperation with your business peers, internal IT colleagues and our offshore team. This with a critical, though constructive mindset taking best practices and standardization into account. Although we hand-over live projects to our RUN team, assistance in 3rd line IT support is sometimes required.
• You are prepared to present your area of expertise towards key users and management.
• You will follow and explore the future roadmap on IT solutions in your FI/CO area. This includes studying, planning and driving innovation. A concrete opportunity for innovation are recent evolutions in AI.

Profile

• You have a business, economics or technology related master’s degree.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in similar IT-surrounding as key-user or as analyst is a strong advantage.
• You have an analytical & innovative spirit and interest in our company’s need to grow & accelerate.
• You are pragmatic and have a strong interest in recent IT evolutions and technologies.
• You have a solution-oriented mind-set and a drive to continuously improve your area.
• You have the necessary self-discipline to make and follow-up a planning.
• You are a team player and try to establish and keep a good relationship with both your IT and business colleagues.
• You have good communication skills and are not afraid to present to groups.
• You are prepared to occasionally travel to Daikin group companies in EMEA.
• You have a very good knowledge of English.

Our offer

At Daikin you can count on a varied job, with an international market leader which encourages people to work together and develop. We can offer you a permanent contract. From the very beginning you can count on thorough training and intensive support, while working with innovative technologies. Your competitive salary is complemented by a package of extra-legal benefits. Colleagues get the possibility to work from home 2 days every week within a flexible work schedule.