Global IT Team Lead Finance & Controlling BA OESL

Company Description

OESL – Original Equipment Solutions, For Future Mobility.

Are you ready to move ForwardTogether with a global, dedicated, and experienced team? 

Join us and take the opportunity to contribute to our future in the fundamentally changing automotive industry with your new role as Head of HR Location in the stand-alone Business Area Original Equipment Solutions. Your new place to work is flexible and will be defined later (hybrid).

About Original Equipment Solutions:

With more than 17.000 employees and around 2bn€ sales, present in 15 countries with 35 locations and tech centers – OESL is a global player in the automotive sector with extended material competence in rubber, plastic, and metal, serving all major OEM’s and commercial vehicle customers’ needs with millions of parts in high quality.

Job Description

Are you an ambitious IT professional looking for challenges, growth, and flexibility? You are structured and enjoy communicating and exchanging with stakeholders while driving things forward? Then you've come to the right place.

The OESL IT department is newly conceived and being built now! With this pioneering effort, OESL IT will be flexible, fast, and forward-thinking. Our IT team will become a strategic advisory partner, strengthening digital capabilities and driving business success.

In your role as Global IT Team Lead Finance & Controlling Applications, you will work in a dynamic environment and shape the Finance IT landscape with us. The role handles the relationship towards our business customers as well as to our internal and external suppliers for all Finance applications. You will be an integral part of the OESL IT's new business applications team, having responsibility for approximately 5+ FTE`s.

Your Responsibilities:

• Define and manage the IT product portfolio strategy for Finance applications, ensuring seamless integration with corporate objectives and alignment with procurement, controlling, and financial reporting needs;
• Develop and maintain application roadmaps that drive innovation, agility, and operational efficiency across financial planning, reporting and accounting;
• Take full responsibility for the IT product lifecycle, including planning, demand management, delivery, and outcome reporting, ensuring continuous improvement and proactive issue resolution;Foster a product-oriented culture with a BizDevOps approach, managing both domestic and international teams for seamless collaboration across time zones and business units
• Build and lead product teams, promoting accountability, innovation, and high performance while empowering them to work independently using agile methods;
• Ensure effective resource allocation across Finance IT initiatives, maintain alignment with business priorities, and provide mentorship to foster team development and career growth
• Act as the central liaison between IT, Finance, and key business stakeholders, ensuring IT solutions effectively support finance strategies, cost control, risk management, and regulatory compliance;
• Maintain relationships with partners and suppliers in the Finance Application space, ensuring best-in-class solutions and support;
• Drive IT innovation by leveraging emerging technologies (AI, process automation, advanced analytics, etc.) to modernize finance operations;
• Promote continuous improvement, optimizing IT-enabled supplier management, financial processes, and spend analytics to enhance efficiency, compliance, and cost-effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Degree in IT, business informatics / engineering / administration or equivalent;
• Proven experience in managing a comprehensive portfolio of Finance applications, ensuring their seamless integration into a modern IT architecture;
• Expertise in IT solutions supporting financial planning and reporting systems;
• Experience driving digital transformation initiatives in financial processes, leveraging modern IT solutions to enhance transparency, compliance, and operational efficiency;
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively between IT, Finance and external partners;
• Strong knowledge of modern IT architectures, including cloud-based financial platforms, automations tools, and analytics-driven finance solutions;
• Exceptional understanding of financial planning, accounting, and risk management, with the ability to analyze and optimize processes for efficiency and compliance;
• Business acumen and the capability to analyze complex finance requirements into effective IT solutions;
• Demonstrated experience in leading IT projects across multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams, both locally and internationally;
• Advanced ski