September 18, 2024

The Estée Lauder Companies

București

Application Support Specialist (Finance Apps Maintenance)

About Estée Lauder Companies
The Estée Lauder Companies is the global leader in prestige beauty — delighting consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. We are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skincare, fragrance, and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout our organization is a passion for creativity and imagination — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of our founder Estée Lauder.
What You'll Do
The Application Support Specialist (Finance Apps Maintenance) is a key member of the Tech Ops Finance Application Maintenance team. The purpose of the role is to work closely with IT Finance colleagues and other IT application teams (especially non-Finance IT areas that influence a Financial outcome) to design, develop, and implement application major and minor enhancement requests and production fixes in all areas of Finance.
The Specialist will manage the work of technicians from multiple and diverse application support vendor teams and applications areas in the delivery of application solutions and will provide timely and relevant resolutions to reported production issues and requested enhancements.
The Specialist will work closely with Global Tech Ops colleagues to ensure that resource prioritization is mindful of global as well as regional support demands from the same technical team. At the same time, they will adhere to global template guidelines and seek collaborative solutions where necessary with Tech Ops-based global partners and on occasion with Finance Functions and DTE team SMEs to deliver the most relevant IT solution for an issue or enhancement.

Key Requirements and Qualifications

50% Manage Support Vendor Teams:

Work with application support vendors and associated technicians and technical leads to understand SAP and non-SAP Finance issues and assist with the design and testing of solutions to both major and minor enhancements and break-fix-oriented issues.
Advise and establish break-fix and major and minor enhancement solutions and work with the AMS and applications development teams to ensure delivery is on time whilst adhering to incident and enhancement priority settings
Work with support vendor teams to prioritize work based on global as well as regional demands.
Consistently educate vendor AMS and AD teams about Corporate and regional finance best practices.

30% Analyze data, enhancement solutions, and production issues:

Work with SAP notes and other packaged source solutions or develop custom solutions.
Configure finance applications where necessary to handle new or enhancement requirements or breaks/fixes.
Document enhancement and break/fix program change and configuration specifications, gaps, data requirements, and procedures.
Work with AMS and application development technicians and business teams to develop scenarios for unit and acceptance testing of the functionality of an enhancement solution or break/fix.
Conduct knowledge transfer training sessions where necessary with other IT teams to educate them regarding any developed changes.
Align with IT SMEs and Global Tech Ops colleagues before developing and configuring solutions for enhancements and break/fixes.
Assist in the preparation of multi-scale heterogeneous data sets to support testing of enhancements and breaks/fixes where relevant.

20% Partner with IT Functions and DTE to deliver application enhancements and resolve production issues:

Work closely and collaboratively with multiple IT and business teams to plan the delivery of, design, build, test, and deploy new finance-related major and minor application enhancements or production breaks/fixes.
Responsible for ensuring successful deployment and stabilization of finance application major and minor enhancement and AMS-related changes.
Document processes, configuration, data flows/transformations, and algorithms associated with application changes.

Qualifications
Job Requirements and Qualifications

Minimum Education level: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in an IT-relevant discipline (such as Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Applied Math, etc,)
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 years related experience
Required Language Proficiency: Confidence and proficiency in English, including for business, is a prerequisite.
Licenses or Certifications: Six Sigma

A sound knowledge of large organization complex and multi-disciplined finance business practices and procedures.
Knowledgeable of diverse regional legal and statutory requirements.
Experience in Managing 3rd Party application and integration providers.
Knowledge of the following SAP Finance application areas ideally across many of the following to have an end view of finance.

SAP Accounts Payable
SAP Accounts receivable
SAP Fixed Assets
SAP Financial Accounting (FI) overall
SAP Controlling (CO) overall
COPA
SAP BPC, SAP GRC, SAP Concur
Some knowledge of SAP WM and SAP OM applications is desirable
Knowledge of SAP OSS notes procedures
Some knowledge of Hyperion application solutions is desirable
Hyperion - CPM (Corporate Performance Management) High Level (Oracle)
Hyperion - HFM
Hyperion - EPM (Enterprise Performance Management)
Hyperion - TR (Travel Retail)
Hyperion - Door application
Hyperion - Close Cube
Hyperion - EPP (Employee performance planning)
Hyperion - Marketing
Hyperion - DRM (Data Relationship Management)
Hyperion Enterprise
Hyperion security
Knowledge of One Stream EPM financial consolidation & financial reporting is highly desirable
Anaplan Pricing tool
Tririga lease management and accounting
Cransoft
DNS
T-RECS
RCTS (Risk Control Tracking System)
REM (Real Estate Management)
NA IBM Financials (Payables & Credit Returns)
Knowledge of
Service Now Tool (S-Now)
Familiar with Middleware concepts (primarily that which involves web Methods technical integration)
Win Shuttle tool for SAP ERP data movement, validation, and collection

Can lead by example with an ability to work with and direct a team of highly competent and multi-disciplined technicians in the execution of application support tasks. Work with multiple vendor partners in the delivery of technical solutions across all finance areas, both SAP and non-SAP.
Establish break/fix as well as minor enhancement solutions.
Establish solutions for larger and more complex regional enhancement requests.

Job: Information Technology
Primary Location: RO-B-Bucharest
Job Type: Standard
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: 1st (Day) Shift
Job Number: 2412526