Director, Business Technology, Core Financials

4 weeks ago

Washington, United States Okta Full time

Get to know Okta

Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology-anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.

At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

Join our team We're building a world where Identity belongs to you.


The Business Technology Team

Business Technology is on a mission to accelerate Okta's scale and growth. We bring world-class business acumen and technology expertise to every interaction. We also drive cross-functional collaboration and are focused on delivering measurable business outcomes.


The Director, Business Technology - Core Financials Opportunity

In this role, you will be responsible for building and managing scalable and sustainable architecture, organizational strategy, and solution designs and serve as a thought leader for ERP platform in the Finance domain including Order to Cash, Record-to-Report, and Procure-to-Pay business functions.

As a Director, you will be responsible for the overall design and maintenance of our ERP platform, including data architecture, feature roadmap, and integrations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and lead the efforts to deliver solutions based on a deep understanding of business requirements.

You will lead a dynamic and geographically distributed team responsible for constantly evolving the systems and processes that support our Finance and Accounting functions. You'll work closely with business leaders, partners, and our Business Technology teams to prioritize, then align resource plans and schedules.


What you'll be doing

  • Partner with senior business leaders on their strategic roadmap, understand their operational issues and opportunities(business processes) and create technical solutions to grow business operations and ensure compliance.
  • Manage the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to end-of-life, ensuring products meet needs and remain competitive.
  • Identify and recommend creative solutions to improve business operations, business engagement and project delivery.
  • Oversee the portfolio of projects, and lead projects to achieve desired goals and benefits in consideration of planned timelines and budgets.
  • Analyze current state needs and challenges, identify improvement and automation opportunities, portfolio planning and tool rationalization.
  • Liaise and resolve audit queries with Internal and External auditors on SOX controls.
  • Develop a collaborative organization and culture highly focused on providing efficient and timely solutions to key business challenges in multiple, sometimes overlapping, functional areas.
  • Hire, develop and retain a highly flexible and culturally diversified team which constantly engages with the business to ensure IT is focused on the right priorities and meeting business goals.
  • Have the ability to understand, translate business needs and drive out-of-box adoption to industry standard/best-in-class platforms.
  • Represent Finance processes in technology assessments, solution design, and implementations.
  • Work with business partners on prioritization and proactively anticipate gaps and overlaps within the Finance portfolio.
  • Serve as a delivery lead for the projects and provide best practices and strategic platform direction.
  • Establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization at all levels, and be viewed as a team player with exceptional communication, analytical, and leadership skills.
  • Stay abreast of technology trends and industry best practices and influence others to seek best-in-class solutions/technology to resolve business challenges.

What you'll bring to the role

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Administration or in a related field.
  • Excellent communication, problem solving/analytical and interpersonal skills.
  • 15+ years of experience in architecting and designing solutions using ERPs such as Netsuite/Oracle/SAP S/4 HANA in a high speed, global technology organization.
  • 8+ years in a leadership position within an IT organization of which 2+ years as a Director, with demonstrated experience driving change and improving operations.
  • Have multiple ERP(S/4 HANA or Oracle or Netsuite) full cycle implementation experiences; Have led multiple Finance transformation initiatives.
  • Deep understanding of the ERP Finance business process areas - Order to Cash, Record to Report, Source to Pay, Revenue Recognition, and Subscription Billing.
  • Experience partnering and communicating with teams and partners in diverse roles at all levels.
  • Experience training and developing teams and being an effective coach.
  • Experience managing vendor relationships and ability to partner with them to conduct business and technical discovery.
  • Experience working and presenting proposals to executives in a clear and compelling way.
  • Experience working with Agile development methodologies.
  • Experience with developing and implementing key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of initiatives, focusing on tangible and measurable outcomes.

Okta's Top 5 Core Leadership Competencies are part of the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of our company's actions. They also align strongly to our cultural cornerstones, our Okta values: love our customers, empower our people, never stop innovating, act with integrity, and maintain transparency. It's our expectation that our managers and leaders embody these core competencies:

  • Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
  • Demonstrates Self-Awareness (EQ): Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
  • Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
  • Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
  • Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

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