Director, Financial Business Systems

Director, Financial Business Systems

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Job Description

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Overview 

 

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. 

 

The Director, Financial Systems (legacy) is responsible for supporting and managing multiple Financial Business Systems for CoStar, which is a $3 Billion publicly traded company. The role provides support and is intimately familiar with the processes performed by functional business areas supporting the CFO organization. Reporting to the Senior Director of Global Financial Business Systems, the primary mission of the position is the functional, technical, and administrative support of financial business systems outside of the core corporate systems. These principally consist of the legacy systems of acquired businesses now a part of the company. 

 

 

Essential Functions 
  

• Strategic Planning and Management: Develop and implement strategies for managing legacy systems, including modernization, integration, and eventual migration/decommissioning. 

• Technical Oversight: Ensuring the ongoing stability, security, and performance of legacy systems, ensuring that critical business processes continue to operate 

• Acquisitions: Provide for the intake of newly acquired financial business systems, initiating process, compliance, and functionality reviews, documenting systems, assessing staffing and training needs, staffing transitions, and bringing systems into the portfolio of managed legacy financial business systems 

• Vendor Management: Managing contracts, agreements, and relationships with vendors who provide support and maintenance for legacy financial business systems. 

• Problem Solving: Addressing technical issues, security vulnerabilities, and other challenges related to legacy systems. 

• Team Leadership: Leading and mentoring direct IT staff and supervising contract staff, both on-site and remote, to achieve the goals of the team and company 

• Collaboration: Supporting business stakeholders (billing, collections, cash, accounting, finance, etc.) on the business use of legacy systems, and collaborating with other IT departments on the network access and vulnerability/security patching of the legacy systems 

• Migration: Working with other IT and FBS teams, supporting