System Administrator, Corporate Finance

Company Description

Publicis Groupe, known for its award-winning creativity, best-in-class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world’s third largest communications group. With 80,000+ colleagues in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs: Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis.Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health.

Since 2014 with the acquisition of Sapient, Publicis Groupe has undergone a profound transformation by scaling a new model connecting data, creativity, and technology. The Groupe has continued this journey with the 2019 acquisition of Epsilon to further scale the data-led offering and provide true momentum to our client’s own transformation.

This model, with a country-led approach, is called the “Power of One” and gathers all the capabilities of the Groupe under one roof, putting clients at the core of the organization.

Job Description

The focus of this position is to work closely with the business units to gain in-depth understanding of business strategy, processes, services, roadmap and the context in which the business operates. This role is key to understanding the technical and system capabilities needed to address business challenges.

The System Administrators are responsible for reviewing assigned business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial and technological risks. Additionally, they are required to identify opportunities to continuously improve efficiency. Responsibilities will include a full range of activities from leading small to mid-size cross organizational projects to assisting members of the COE or Core team on larger more complex projects related to the evolution of the Groupe Financial Platform.

Primary Functions and Responsibilities

• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Groupe Financial Systems and apply this to the development, execution and improvement of action plans by providing advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices
• Provide leadership to team members and peers by collaborating with others; articulating ideas and viewpoints to senior management, peers and others; identifying and initiating projects; managing resources and driving the resolution of issues
• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes and new responsibilities
• Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
• Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Serve as a liaison between Operations and IT to assist or gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement and implementations
• Lead cross functional groups including data validation, process improvements and training.
• Serve as a liaison between Operations and IT to assist or gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement and implementations
• Lead cross functional groups including data validation, process improvements and training.

Qualifications

• BS – major in accounting/finance
• 3 - 5 years – Financial System Administration experience
• Advertising industry experience a plus
• Extensive knowledge and experience of ERP software and implementation cycles, including SAP and PeopleSoft
• Extensive knowledge of additional platform software like ReadSoft, Vertex and more
• Highly developed project management, analytical and problem solving skills
• Knowledge and understanding of business requirement gathering, analysis and design documentation for data solutions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with executive teams, financial staff, and technical SMEs across all skill and organizational levels
• High level of business, accounting and financial acumen
• Creativity in developing data driven solutions

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.