Director, Global EPM COE, Application Management

The Director of Application Management for the Global Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud Systems COE (Center of Excellence) leads the administration, development, and architecture activities of the consolidated financial systems for Henry Schein. This system is critical for aggregating global financial results from multiple locations worldwide into a centralized chart of accounts and repository of data for Internal Management reporting, Budgeting and Forecast cycles, key business leader decision-making, the consolidation of the monthly financial close, and the source of public filing and consecutive conference call materials.

This position is responsible for leading and managing the department’s Application Management activities and processes, as well as providing guidance and oversight into the Infrastructure & Environment activities of the broader Global EPM Systems Center of Excellence (COE), where applicable, to meet those business needs in a timely and logical manner. Additionally, this role, working with leadership, peers, and vendor partners, supports alignment of the teams to the overall EPM COE strategy. To meet larger company and corporate objectives, ownership of Application Management initiatives includes providing direction and making decisions that guide the team’s activities and system design efforts regarding events and tasks involving direct business finance teams, Corporate or FP&A leadership, and/or system user interaction.

As such, this role will be responsible for leading and overseeing the following key functional areas:

Architecture Management – Lead and oversee the management and development of application metadata through Enterprise Data Management (EDMCS), inclusive of end-user workflow.

Monthly Administration – Lead and oversee system monthly preparation (FCCS and Planning) and change management for all operational cycles (RO, Budget, Close, Daily Sales). Oversee data synchronization and movement across EPM applications and execution and management of end-user access to the applications.

Application and Data Governance – Establish, maintain, and oversee key governing controls, support Internal and External Audits and SOX compliance, and oversee quality testing to support change management and Oracle application monthly updates.

Internal Development – Lead solution design and development leveraging business requirements cycles (BRD) to meet future business and system needs.

Future Development of the EPM Application Suite – Lead and manage internally driven development efforts and/or collaboration with 3rd-party vendors.

This role will interact with the user community, global finance leaders, upper management of various departments, Information Technology, Internal and External auditors, contract consultants, and vendor partners.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the management and coordination of metadata change management activities, as well as the Business Requirements Document (BRD) process by which requests for significant system enhancements are evaluated and designed.
• Guide and direct the team through brainstorming design solutions and interpretation and evaluation of “business need” versus “present state” with respect to change management requests, considering cross-application requirements and dependencies.
• Provide direction and oversight in the management and coordination of Budget, close, forecast and Restatement data loads.
• Lead and facilitate the global financial close consolidation process, working with External Reporting, financial business leaders, and Corporate Financial Analysis teams to bring monthly and quarterly financial close processes to completion.
• Participate in and provide recommendations regarding changes in strategic architecture metadata structure, in support of acquisitions, integrations, divestitures, and other re-organizational changes, for the purpose of determining appropriate hierarchical reporting design.
• Direct and oversee the team in planning and preparing the system for routine and scheduled events, such as downtime metadata changes and monthly maintenance, following standard formulated documented process, establish financial, change management and security controls for the department to govern by and align internal and 3rd party audit requirements.
• Provide leadership and decision-making on matters of urgency regarding system and data errors or failures.
• Oversee the management and performance of routine system data integrity check and review processes to monitor data accuracy across systems and support Pod-to-Pod integrations.
• Provide direction and oversight for EPM Systems onboarding activities, including integration solutions for newly acquired entities in conjunction with other corporate teams and business finance leads.
• Lead short- and long-term planning for system enhancements and application suite needs, and direct system optimization analysis efforts to identify and implement efficiency measures.

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