IT Business Partner & PMO

Quintus Search; Selangor; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Malaysia is looking for an IT Business Partner & PMO to work closely with global teams on finance shared services. The role involves overseeing project lifecycles, managing stakeholder expectations, and providing technical leadership. Candidates should have at least 10 years of experience in IT partnership, finance functions, and project management, including Six Sigma or Lean methodologies. Strong communication and strategic thinking skills are essential, along with expertise in SAP ERP.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in relevant fields.
• 5+ years in Six Sigma or Lean portfolio management.
• 3+ years supporting finance functions, especially Shared Services.
• 2+ years in managing program management office.

Responsibilities

• Serve as main IT contact for Shared Service Centers.
• Manage stakeholder expectations.
• Oversee project lifecycle management.
• Recruit consultants and manage financial activities.

Skills

Business-centric approach

Strategic thinking

Project management

Lean methodology

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance/Accounting or IT

Tools

SAP ERP

Job description

The IT Business Partner&PMO Finance Shared Service Centers position will work with seasoned IT partners to company global functions in Source to Pay Platforms, to ensure technical milestones are followed with documentations, solution designs, financial/budget/resource breakdown, and signed-off alignments with CoC teams and responsible application owners for resourcing readiness and project timelines of system implementation, go-live, hypercare, and post-production support.

S/he/they will serve as the main Core IT contact to Shared Service Centers leaders and manage stakeholder expectations. S/he/they will provide technical expertise that can bridge between business processes and IT applications by translating business needs into functional and technical requirements; lay out executable projects that enable processes and functions operating more efficiently. S/he/they will also leverage Core IT CoC teams (ie. ERP, Middleware, etc) to develop both short-term and target-state solutions for business improvements related to SSC. S/he/they will also partner with Process Excellence team for SSC process streamlining and optimization, and the most importantly, lay out a maturity model/roadmap that SSC improvement programs can be enabled with digital/IT tools.

S/he/they will also oversee and manage vendors who provide service to SSC, including platform utilization, stability, resourcing, support, etc.

The IT Business Partner&PMO Finance Shared Service Centers position will report directly to Senior Manager Finance & SSC Platforms and Lean Portfolio Management, based in Germany.

Serve as the business partner and trusted advisor to global functional teams: Shared Services Centers and other relevant teams while providing technical thought leadership.

Collaborate with the Transformation Office on the IT intake process and prioritization of projects.

Monitor the end-to-end management of the entire project lifecycle (initiation, budgeting, planning & designing, implementation and closing) of a selected project portfolio, with cross technical teams such as engineering, product, enterprise architecture, security, development, QA, support, etc.

Perform analysis of schedules and collaborate with stakeholder groups to ensure that appropriate resources are allocated to projects to ensure successful and timely completion.

Manage project and business risks incl. transparent management reporting and budgeting.

Recruit consultants, production support and maintenance, etc; leverage & set up a cost‑efficient and sustainable resourcing model that meets quality, flexibility and service-level.

Responsible for managing financial activities and contractual negotiations and ongoing maintenance.

Requirements:

(The abilities that the individual needs to perform this role effectively)

• Bachelor's degree or Masters degree in Finance/Accounting, Information Technology, Operations, or other‑related industry experience. 10+ years of professional experience, with minimum 5 years in a Six Sigma or Lean Portfolio management, minimum 3 years in supporting finance‑function, especially Shared‑Services or BPO, and minimum 2 years in managing program management office.
• Strategic thinker who is business‑centric and customer‑focused; Demonstrate the ability to translate businesses requirements into technology solution.
• Clear thinker who can piece together system and data flows (downstream, midstream, and upstream) and to identify business/user impacts, data flow, and process flow. Also, to mitigate risks.
• Ability to work with senior level management, business units and corporate staff executives to develop a technology strategy that is integrated with IT and across all business units.
• Experience in process analysis and development of technical concepts, configuration and implementation in the area of SAP ERP, Finance & Controlling.
• Strong understanding of each business unit to include their business drivers for success, process and approaches to business models.
• Proven success in business partnerships that enable transparency and accountability across the organization.
• Ability to build and leverage vendor/services provider relationships to improve support.
• Prioritize and manage multiple programs simultaneously, strong project management and organizational skills.
• Deploy and apply LEAN methodology, to improve global function systems and employee daily operations.

Six Sigma Certification preferred

Industrial or Chemical Industry experience a plus