Accounting Manager

• Partner with functional leadership to define future state business processes and supporting technologies to accomplish short- and long-term business goals
• Collaborate with key Business Partners and Architects to set direction through formation of a strategic roadmap
• Work with key business partners and other IT business process consultants to identify business problems and evolve the global solution, using SAP and non-SAP systems, to meet the business needs most effectively
• Leverage a deep understanding of how the IT tools are used by the business and how these tools interact, to influence the business to think in different ways by providing design direction and alternative options to meet business needs
• Responsible for technical solution design and understanding integration points with SAP and other business applications
• Act as a liaison between IT and business partners on large-scale projects
• Integration of global design with systems and processes, designing/developing interfaces to/from SAP working with both internal and external resources
• Lead the development of evolving global design for incremental operational changes to key business processes in SAP, working directly with third party supplier ensuring they have appropriate understanding of business processes and supporting design at Lilly
• Work directly with application vendors to understand and influence the vendor’s strategic direction for their product, keeping an outward focus to identify new trends and opportunities
• Responsible for alignment of business architecture direction with other Tech at Lilly areas
• Coach and mentor management, team, and others on business processes, technologies and designs as appropriate

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