Application Manager, Finance

Brookfield

Toronto

5d ago

Company

Brookfield is a global alternative asset manager with over $550 billion in assets under management. We have over a 120-year history of owning and operating assets with a focus on property, renewable power, infrastructure and private equity.

Brookfield is a global organization with over 100,000 employees and operations in 30 countries in 5 continents. Brookfield is co-listed on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges under the symbol BAM and on NYSE Euronext under the symbol BAMA.

Our asset management business consists of 5 business groups (Real Estate, Infrastructure, Power, Private Equity, and Public Securities) in addition to the Global Manager group which covers the corporate functions.

We operate on a decentralized basis where each business group is responsible for the activities of the business. Global Manager acts as a partner to each business group, performing certain functions that are shared across all groups (e.

g.IT), sharing best practices, facilitating communication across the groups to ensure that activities that require consistency across groups are coordinated.

Accordingly, we operate in a matrix environment requiring everyone to consider who might be impacted by a decision and / or who needs to be involved or aware.

Role Overview

Under the direction of the Director, Technology Services, the Financial Application Support Manager will be responsible for :

Managing critical incidents relating to all enterprise Financial apps, gathering key information from supporting sources on the call, effectively determining appropriate courses of action, engaging and escalating involvement of required resources to efficiently restore service

Performing regular problem management and control activities including interactions with SIAM

Communicates critical production problem status, resolution strategies, and rationale of the resolution strategies to senior management and executives to keep them informed of critical production problems and to gain approval on operational activities

Provides managerial leadership to employees and vendors, which includes assigning tasks or work, holding regular two-way meetings, setting context, conducting performance evaluations, mentoring, and coaching, to create and maintain a high-performing team

Providing guidance to the offshore team (vendors) ensuring services are being delivered according to the contract

Providing service feedback and developing action plans to remediate issues, identifying processes and skills required for continuous improvements in knowledge base

Support project transition

Managing ongoing application releases

Ensuring that the root causes of incidents are being determined and reporting the statuses to management and business stakeholders

Participate in operations best practices sessions / lessons learned

Support various internal compliance and or Audit requests

Contribute to knowledge sharing initiatives

Key Responsibilities

Applications Solid knowledge MS Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, EPM (HFM / OneStream) and other relevant subledger systems including T&E system (ie Concur)

Problem Solving - Collaborate on Incident, Problem and Change / Release Management to assist with restoring service, identifying and driving permanent corrective measures and safely & effectively managing change.

In order to do this, you will be interacting with multiple different teams and occasionally vendors.

Relationship Building - Build and maintain key relationships with business stakeholders and deliver high levels of client experience.

Effective Communication - Communicate updates / incidents, daily / weekly / monthly through reporting or executive presentations.

Experience working with 3rd party service providers and vendor governance

Proven track-record in incident management and have worked previously in an ITIL / ITSM role for a financial institution (FI).

This role may require 24 / 7 on-call support

Team Lead -You will be responsible for administrative functions such as creating / maintaining the schedule, monthly incident reporting / analysis, mentoring and coaching team members

Continuous Learning - You will be expected to consistently build your knowledge of existing and new technologies.

Clients first. You engage with purpose to find the right solutions.

Enjoy investigating complex problems, and making sense of information.

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