
Senior Director – Enterprise Applications
Saffire, LLC
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • Connecticut • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $225,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Serve as the primary operational owner of D365 F&O and other financial systems within the Finance Systems team’s purview, ensuring platform stability, performance, and alignment with organizational requirements.
- Maintain a comprehensive inventory of applications, integrations, and data flows across the financial systems landscape; identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for rationalization.
- Partner with IT and business stakeholders to evaluate, onboard, and retire financial system components in a controlled, well-documented manner.
- Monitor system health, coordinate scheduled maintenance windows, and ensure adequate business continuity and disaster recovery planning is in place for critical financial platforms.
- Serve as the primary owner of day-to-day management of key technology vendors and implementation partners, including managed service providers, ensuring contractual obligations and service levels are met.
- Lead recurring vendor governance meetings; track open issues, escalate risks, and drive resolution in a timely manner.
- Evaluate vendor performance against defined SLAs; provide input into contract renewals and statement of work negotiations.
- Collaborate with Procurement and Legal as needed to manage vendor agreements, change orders, and compliance requirements.
- Own the end-to-end user access lifecycle for D365 F&O and related financial systems, including provisioning, modification, periodic review, and termination.
- Maintain and enforce a robust security role framework aligned to the principle of least privilege, ensuring Segregation of Duties (SoD) policies are embedded into role design and access assignment.
- Lead periodic user access reviews in partnership with Controllership leadership and business control owners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in finance systems administration, ERP operations, or a related field; at least 3 years in a leadership or senior individual contributor capacity.
- Hands-on experience administering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O), including security role configuration, workflow administration, and master data management.
- Demonstrated experience managing vendor relationships and third-party implementation partners (e.g. Avanade, Hitachi, Accenture, or equivalent)
- Experience with application license management, cost modeling, and total cost of ownership analysis for enterprise financial systems.
- Familiarity with ERP user access management principles, including Segregation of Duties (SoD) frameworks and periodic access review processes.
- Experience supporting multi-entity environments and/or new legal entity deployments is required.
Benefits
- medical insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- life and disability insurance
- paid vacation
- 401(k) plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operationssecurity role configurationworkflow administrationmaster data managementvendor relationship managementapplication license managementcost modelingtotal cost of ownership analysisERP user access managementSegregation of Duties (SoD)
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationvendor governancerisk managementissue trackingnegotiationorganizational skillsbusiness continuity planning