Sr. Manager, IT Business Partner - Finance

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is hiring a Senior Manager, IT Business Partner - Finance to collaborate with Finance, TDS, and external vendors. The role connects business and technology teams, leads technology-enabled finance opportunities and project execution, and supports adoption and measurement of solutions that advance business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Develops In-Depth Business Knowledge: Actively partners with the business to understand and align with their strategic priorities
• Identifies and Defines Opportunities: Supports the envisioning, identification, and definition of new opportunities to maximize technology and/or process redesign to advance business priorities
• Bridges Business and Technology: Acts as the link between business and technology teams to ensure the right solutions are built successfully
• Coordinate Project Execution: Implements and oversees projects, reporting progress, including organizational change impact analysis, value realization plans, and risk mitigation
• Facilitates Technology Adoption: Enables efficient deployment and adoption of innovative technology capabilities, services, and solutions across the business and/or end-customers
• Applies Customer-Centric Approach: Ensures solutions delivered meet the evolving needs of both internal and external customers
• Brings to bear Technological Innovations: Advocates for and uses innovations in technology to improve value, reduce costs, and deliver next-generation capabilities for the business
• Promotes End-to-End Solution Thinking: Prioritizes agility and iterative value delivery, bringing comprehensive solution thinking
• Ensures Integrated Solutions: Works with TDS teams to ensure solutions are not siloed and are informed by, and coordinated with, BD’s enterprise roadmaps
• Advocates for Mutual Interests: Represents the business within TDS and advocates for TDS within the business
• Measures and Communicates Value: Periodically measures and communicates value realized through defined and agreed-upon metrics and supporting analysis

Requirements:

• 10+ years of business working experience in a technology function
• Strong understanding of finance transformation principles, best practices, and industry trends
• Accomplished in multiple process and technology capabilities across Finance, including but not limited to financial reporting, financial insights and analytics, driver based financial planning, and consolidations (GAAP)
• Deep understanding of the finance technology landscape and system capabilities
• Proficiency towards use of finance transactional and reporting systems; Knowledge of SAP and data flow to Business Warehouse and other downstream reporting
• Proficient in software development, testing, and release cycle protocols
• Skilled in solutioning, blueprinting / design sessions, business requirements documentation, test scenarios, cutover, hyper-care, project planning, and status reporting
• Excellent ability to articulate business and technical opportunities or challenges in a simplified manner
• Strong ability to inspire change using positive and collaborative methods
• Experience leading teams, working in a highly matrixed global organization, overcoming ambiguity, and aligning with team members
• Highly collaborative work style and experience challenging the status-quo and bringing forth innovative ideas and solutions
• Strong humility, listening, and influencing skills
• Leadership by example - inspiring, mentoring, coaching, and encouraging others
• Analytical, evaluative, intellectually curious, continuous improvement approach and strong problem-solving abilities
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related fields is strongly preferred
• Master's degree is highly desirable
• Knowledge of SAP and data flow to Business Warehouse and other downstream reporting (SAP S4/ECC, BPC, Power BI, Databricks strongly preferred)
• Experience implementing process excellence, lean principles and leading Kaizen workshops is appealing
• Product Management and Agile methodology experience, along with familiarity of associated tools, is a plus