Responsibilities:

• Joint responsibility with the CFO for overall work stream budget, plan and deliverables
• Understand in minute detail the Finance current state and lead business process redesign to create new state and create migration plan in conjunction with Jenzabar to achieve on time successful delivery
• Ensure that Finance work stream design is documented and signed off by all stakeholders, particularly Finance staff and CFO
• Ensure that full and continuous communication happens with all stakeholders
• Manage the Finance testing environment to ensure successful transfer of data
• Ensure minimum fortnightly formal joint review meetings with CFO and Project manager
• Work closely with all other work streams to identify complicated multi departmental areas and ensure efficient design, sign off and implementation of multi departmental processes (e.g. student billing from Registrars and Financial Aid with Student Life)
• Ensure sufficient Finance training and documentation to ensure Finance department has resilience in maintaining operations after migration is complete
• Mange the Finance training program to ensure all Finance personnel are suitably trained in the new product.
• Assess in detail after discussing with all stakeholders and make recommendations of cost benefit analysis of system rationalizations e.g. Papersave vs Jenzabar
• Make plan for management of payroll bearing in mind Jenzabar does not do payroll
• Consider arrangements for HR systems and data
• Include other ancillary systems to ensure global by in and opportunities for synergies – Blackboard, Slate
• Responsible for ensuring the creation and ongoing integration/smooth operation of all finance interfaces into and out of the SIS system, including defining and documenting what data flows and when.
• Manage grandfathering of current Black baud operations and ensure all necessary arrangements are in place to ensure continuity of operation of ceased support Black baud for the 2 years until migration
• Ensure all historical Finance data on Black baud/other systems is considered and arrangements made for necessary data storage/transfer into Jenzabar
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Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Have a minimum of 3-5 years application support experience, preferably an accountant with multi years’ experience implementing systems
• Proven experience working in a higher educational environment
• Proven experience with system implementation
• Proven experience managing process documentation and redesign with continual improvement
• Experience in managing process redesign, especially in the area of Procure to
• Pay and order to cash