Director, Financial Systems, CoStar Group - Washington, DC

Director, Financial Systems, CoStar Group - Washington, DC

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Job Description

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CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings for our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating platforms that have become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

Learn more about CoStar Group

The Director, Financial Systems is responsible for supporting; planning and managing multiple Financial Systems, Integrations and Acquisitions projects/Programs for CoStar which is a $2.5 Billion publicly traded company. Supports and is intimately familiar with the processes performed by functional business areas supporting the CFO organization and leads (in collaboration with the Senior Director, Global Financial Systems) initiatives within these functional business areas with business process reengineering and large-scale Financial, ERP, Billing, contracts and CRM Processes and other systems deployment initiatives.

This role offers a hybrid schedule of 4 days a week onsite with 1 day a week remote

Essential Functions
 

Program Management

• Supports the implementations of Oracle Cloud international financial system implementation including Billing, AR, and Revenue, CRM, Business Intelligence Systems and others.
• Manages multiple on site and off site vendors supporting systems implementation projects.
• Assigns and directs the activities of professional and technical personnel involved in the design, development and systems analysis functions required to create new financial and other enterprise solutions and systems.
• Reviews and analyzes existing applications programs and programs in development to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of those programs; reviews requests for system changes
• Evaluates programming techniques and training needs then selects and implements training as required.
• Program support for the integration of systems, processes and data of all Acquired companies (e.g. Apartment.com, Apartment Finder, LoopNet, etc.) into Costar’s financial, billing, reporting and CRM systems.

Finance Organization Support

• Business Process Improvement , reengineering and Automation of key financial and cross functional processes
• Acts as a Liaison of the CFO’s organization to Corporate IT for all corporate financial System releases
• Provides technical information and advice to departments regarding network interconnections and overall data processing master plans.
• Solutions Architect for new capabilities that will automate current manual processes and result in costs reductions and overall efficiencies.
• Ensures all assigned projects follow the adopted systems development methodology. Publishes project work plans that are maintained and reported against.

IT Compliance

• Manages the QA - System, integration user acceptance testing (UAT) for all Enterprise, NAV and other systems releases.
• Reviews performance of applications programs to ensure program efficiency, program documentation, and to ensure that output meets the needs of user departments.

Leadership

• Leads a team of 6 IT Professionals (Developers, Project Managers, Business/QA analysts) dedicated and focused on CoStar’s Financial Systems in the CFO organization

Qualifications:

• 10+ years’ experience in the management, development and support of systems in client server, midrange and / or enterprise server computing environments. At least 5+ years of this experience must be within a large, publicly traded organization.
• 10 years of experience managing a team
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related field from an accredited, not-for-profit college or university 
• A track record of commitment to prior employers 
• Extensive implementation and manage