Finance Integration - Business Transformation & Readiness, Senior Specialist

Finance Integration - Business Transformation & Readiness, Senior Specialist

Join the Clean Energy Revolution. Become a Finance Integration - Business Transformation & Readiness, Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) for the NextGen ERP Program at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. The NextGen ERP Program will span over 5 years leveraging emerging digital solutions in concert with re-imagining and transforming our current processes and organization to make dramatic improvements to operational performance, as many companies are doing across industries. We are looking at an approach that not only upgrades the systems but also transforms our business processes to maximize efficiency, improve data quality, and provide better integrated decision making across the enterprise. We are currently in the implementation phase of the ERP program, leveraging a hybrid agile approach to drive change. This effort goes beyond a system upgrade-it's a fundamental redesign of our core financial processes. Our goal is to streamline operations, enhance data accuracy, and enable integrated, enterprise-wide decision-making. Finance Integration is one of four tracks that play a critical role in delivering these outcomes.

This role sits within the Finance Integration Track with sub-tracks covering finance functions including; Treasury, Financial Planning & Analysis, Plant Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Accounts Payable / Receivable, and Time & Pay. The team is responsible for implementing future-state designs that transform core finance functions. The position supports efforts to ensure solutions across the finance implementation align with business needs and enterprise goals. Serving in this role, you will ensure business requirements are met and complex integration is fully addressed through streamlined and rationalized processes that align with new technological capabilities for the relevant process area and activities. As a Senior Specialist within the Finance Integration track, your responsibilities will include but are not limited to supporting the design, build, and implementation of one of the following sub-tracks :

• Treasury, Accounts Payable, and Financial Planning / Group Reporting / Financial Reporting
• Record to Report
• Timekeeping and Payroll
• Capital and Non-Energy Billing

As a Finance Integration - Business Transformation & Readiness, Senior Specialist, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains relationships with key stakeholders to provide support for key decisions and to secure buy-in for fit-to-standard and custom solutions developed to meet business needs.

Assists cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation and integration of business operations software and systems ensuring that business requirements are met for assigned business process area.

Supports implementation workshops and other forums to gather, synthesize, and validate information, ensuring a robust understanding of existing business processes and requirements.

Conducts thorough evaluations during the implementation phase to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement in current procedures.

Challenges the status quo, support transformational change, and recommend practical solutions that align with implementation goals.

Analyzes and synthesizes data and process flows, incorporating best practices to support the implementation strategy. Supports informed recommendations or decisions based on this analysis, and present key findings to stakeholders.

Assists in design and document future state business processes and requirements that align with the new system capabilities.

Collaborates with technical team experts to enhance processes, including performing comprehensive user integration testing. Provides functional guidance and supervision to analysts.

Builds relationships and interact with peers, managers, system integration (SI) partners, directors, and all levels of leadership to achieve implementation objectives.

Prepare and deliver presentations and support other work activities that align with project milestones.

A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

Five or more years of business operations and / or transformation experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or other related fields.

Experience and knowledge of SAP / ERP applications / modules with understanding of related business processes and operating models spanning one or more business process domains, such as GL Accounting, SAP Finance and Payroll modules (FI, CO or S4 Hana Finance), and / or SCE cost flows

Experience with enterprise-level financial reports and dashboards by leveraging S / 4HANA capabilities, PowerBI, Alteryx, or other enterprise reporting tools.

Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal, along with negotiation and influence skills.

Experience translating complex business needs and requirements into appropriate technological solutions.

Experience identifying and implementing process improvements or technology solutions.

Ability to positively enhance and contribute to a culture of safety, collaboration, open dialogue, mutual respect, and appreciation.

Additional Information

This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We're fueling the kind of innovation that's changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you'll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.