Associate Director, Solution Engineer

As a member of the professional staff, contributes specialized knowledge and skill in a discipline (e.g. Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Information Resources, Operations Planning & Support, Sales & Marketing) area to support team and/or department business objectives. Generally, works under limited supervision, but within established guidelines, producing and analyzing more complex business information to assist in the decision-making process.

The Associate Director, Solution Engineer F&A Applications plays a significant role in the development, support, and stabilization of custom financial application engines and data integration. The Associate Director is responsible for analyzing business needs to help identify business problems and propose and deliver solutions. The incumbent has shared responsibility with technology resources for understanding and translating business needs into effective requirements. The Associate Director takes a leadership role in financial application projects, upgrades, implementations, and enterprise technology solutions, contributing specialized financial application skills and knowledge to support the financial accounting areas of MVW. This position is responsible for providing business process and requirements documentation, as well as working closely with the business in efforts to leverage technology to streamline and automate core financial transactions, to include leading upgrades and implementation of new financial systems.

Specific Expected Contributions:

• Provides in-depth business and discipline knowledge in support of financial information systems.
• Works with key business partners and subject matter experts to draft functional and technical requirement documentation.
• Works with technical resources to draft conceptual and detailed design documentation.
• Performs solution delivery planning for unit / user acceptance testing and deployment.
• Monitors key performance measures and audits controls of accounting, consolidation, and/or reporting information systems.
• Takes a leadership role in team development
• Identifies solutions and implements best-practice processes and information systems for enterprise business solutions.
• Collaborates with external technical service providers to satisfy system change standards to meet the needs of business stakeholders.
• Works collaboratively with business users to understand complexities of the business and ensure timely exchange of information, user satisfaction, and process improvements.
• Monitors the audit systems controls process including EBS system change management and separation of duties.
• Provides support for accounting and reporting information systems.
• Develops & maintains strong customer relationships.
• Acts as a team lead for implementation and upgrade projects for the various financial applications.
• Develops an understanding of MVW accounting processes and how they interact with MVW applications.
• Assists in special projects as required.
• Performs other duties as needed.

Specific Candidate Profile (the education, experience, skills, and attributes that are important for this position)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent experience required.

Experience:

• At least seven (7) years of relevant and progressive work experience.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing a strong project team in a complex, service-intensive, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong experience in SQL or similar tool sets in analyzing and documenting data requirements and business rules. Strong experience in DevOps including Task management and CI/CID.
• Strong knowledge of the.NET framework
• Experience with all phases of SDLC
• Hospitality and/or Timeshare experience preferred.

Skills and Attributes:

• Microsoft Office (all apps).
• Oracle & SQL Server PL/SQL.
• Microsoft .NET / C#.
• Microsoft Azure Services
• Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering
• Knowledge of ERP Systems
• Possesses business and technical knowledge of all financial interfaces and special programs.
• Possesses proficient knowledge of US and International accounting processes & policies.
• Demonstrated ability to learn complex business processes and develop solutions to address business system needs in a holistic manner.
• Strong communication and networking skills providing the ability to work in a dynamic, multi-functional matrix environment.
• Pro-active, assertive, motivated and disciplined.
• Effective at prioritizing work and following through on commitments.
• Demonstrated agility in a constantly changing, fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of business process mapping methodologies.
• Demonstration leadership in the project and upgrade implementations.
• Strong service orientation and excellent communication skills.

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