Senior IT Project Manager - Finance

Daikin Europe; Oostkamp; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract

Training & onboarding

Remote work 2 days/week

Competitive salary + benefits

Job summary

Daikin Europe is seeking a SAP Project Lead to support Finance, Accounting and Costing processes. You will join IT Development in Oostkamp as part of IT Center EMEA, coordinating projects and delivering IT solutions across Europe and the Middle East.

After training, you will lead FI/CO projects, coordinate internal and external teams, analyze requests, present to users and management, and help shape future IT roadmap with AI innovations.

Qualifications

• Requires a Master’s degree in a business, economics or technology field.
• 5+ years of relevant IT experience as a key-user or analyst are highly advantageous.
• Analytical and innovative mindset with an interest in IT evolutions and AI.
• Pragmatic, proactive, and able to plan and deliver.
• Strong communication skills and ability to present to groups.

Responsibilities

• Act as Project Lead for FI/CO projects across EMEA, including rollouts and new functionality.
• Coordinate a team of internal & external IT colleagues and developers, ensuring quality documentation and hand-over to RUN team.
• Analyse and implement improvement requests with business peers and offshore teams; provide 3rd line support as needed.
• Present area of expertise to key users and management.
• Follow and contribute to future IT roadmap for FI/CO, exploring innovations such as AI.

Skills

Project management

Functional analysis

Stakeholder coordination

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

Master's degree (business/economics/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.