Services Finance Project Lead

Services Finance is looking for an experienced project lead to support global product development, new business opportunities, business and geographic expansions, and other platform initiatives.

This role requires substantial cross-functional interaction with the Services Finance team, Product Marketing, Engineering, Project Management, Shared Services (GBS), Global Finance Projects, Tax, Legal, Treasury, and other corporate finance teams, and business counterparts in other parts of Client.

Description

Global responsibilities that cover Apple Services: Music/Video, TV, Appstore, Fitness, Arcade, eBooks, Subscriptions, Gift Cards and payment methods. The role includes the ability to prepare appropriate project documents, effectively and clearly communicate project status, manage project risk and support post launch and ad-hoc projects.","responsibilities":"Participate on Services Finance project team and serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Define, communicate, document project requirements and business cases, including but not limited to Business Requirements document (BRD), Accounting Flows, User Acceptance Test Scripts (UAT), P&L impact assessment.

Internally manage and facilitate the Project Life Cycle (PLC) phases for each project

Enable new revenue streams by operationalizing new billings flows including GMAAC customer set up and invoicing support

Represent Services Finance and assess P&L impact in various tax and manual projects

Participate in the SAP Landscape Modernization (SLM) project, prepare test scripts and support ongoing pre-SLM smoke testing, cross-functional scenarios and future SLM UATs as tester/screener

Define, oversee and manage master data elements for customers, vendors, products, GL, and reporting hierarchies

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years relevant and accounting experience.

Experience and understanding of the full business cycle from customer purchase, procurement, and financial reporting.

Experience in project management (PLC) and project documentation.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Strong prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and projects with some level of ambiguity

Understand financial accounting and be able to leverage/create accounting flows

Experience working with SAP

Self-motivated, driven individual who is comfortable working in a global, high-pressure and rapidly evolving business environment.

Ability to think strategically on critical business issues, and to simultaneously act tactically to execute against them.

Strong team orientation and collaborative style. Flexible attitude and an ability to get involved in the details while maintaining a wider view.

Excellent process management, planning and organizational skills. Resilient and determined to ensure projects and deliverables are achieved.

Ability to challenge and debate issues of importance and to identify the best possible outcome for customers and partners.