One Finance is a multilayer, multiyear enterprise initiative to Simplify The Home Depot's Financial Systems landscape, Transform Finance Function and Support the success of One Home Depot vision. Delivering on One Finance objectives are critical and foundational for achieving the Interconnected Retail experience.

The Home Depot's Finance Systems landscape, consisting of heavily customized applications on disparate platforms and databases, is complex and outdated. The current version of the core Finance System, SAP ECC, will go out of support and will be migrated to SAP S/4HANA on the Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, the business transformation mandate requires end-to-end process streamlining and standardization, simplifying the Finance function, supporting enhanced analytics and enabling highly flexible reporting through “One Ledger” architecture.

In order to deliver these mission critical objectives, One Finance is structured as a fully dedicated Program Office within the Finance division, with the following functions:

• Program and Change Management
• Overall responsibility to continually refine, measure and deliver planned business value
• Program Governance to manage scope, budget, risks, and ensure quality and value realization
• Proactively manage change across all areas and levels to ensure change readiness and process / technology adoption
• Business Process Applications
• Overall responsibility to
• Influence and drive end-to-end process streamlining and standardization based on industry leading best practices
• Build consensus and drive decision-making by engaging the appropriate Business and IT stakeholders, at the right time and in the right forum(s)
• Deliver application / system functionalities that are configured to support process simplification and provide better data insights
• Manage and deliver planned business value for the assigned functional area(s) within the four work streams (discussed below)
• Assess and utilize emerging Industry 4.0 technologies
• Act as Business Process Subject Matter Experts (SME) in assigned area(s) within Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Finance API, and Innovation work streams.
• Liaise effectively with -
• Cross-functional stakeholders in managing design and scope decisions, and up-stream inter-dependencies
• IT stakeholders in configuring / developing technical solutions and testing strategies that satisfy business requirements
• Internal Audit and Finance Integration stakeholders on identifying and mitigating Security and Controls risks
• Serve the role of a Product Manager to groom stories, prioritize backlog, lead agile ceremonies

The five workstreams and relevant functional areas or scope are shown below -

• Record to Report (RTR): Master Data Design, Management and Governance, One Ledger Architecture; Cost Accounting; Financial Accounting; External Financial and Managerial Reporting; Acquire-to-Retire; Project Accounting; and Financial Planning and Forecasting
• Procure to Pay (PTP): Purchase and Inventory Accounting - Tracking, valuation and recordation of inventory movements from vendors through Supply Chain; Merchandise and Non-Merchandise Procurement, Payables and Payments (scope includes migrating Ariba and Concur T&E to cloud); and operational / managerial reporting
• Order to Cash (OTC): Sales Revenue Accounting; Accounts Receivable and Credit Collections; and operational / managerial reporting
• Finance API (API): Design, develop and deliver loosely coupled Common Services / API's for enterprise systems to consume.
• Innovation: Follow trends and assess the viability of emerging technologies, such as BlockChain, IoT, and AI/ML. Influence the utilization and broader adoption within the enterprise.

The Project Leader position supports the ‘Business Process Applications' function of One Finance and will report to the Manager or Senior Manager of RTR, PTP, OTC, API, or Innovation work streams. The Project Leader will be responsible for leading the design and delivery of industry-leading processes and SAP system functionalities pertaining to assigned functional areas. The Project Leader will also be responsible for driving changes to existing systems and processes needed to support Enterprise Priorities and Commons. The position may have direct people responsibilities, but are required to actively partner with Systems Integrators, while engaging / managing matrixed internal business and IT stakeholders

Key Responsibilities:

• 40% PROJECT CONTROL - Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed. Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes
• are implemented.
• 30% PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS - Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders. Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates/presents project review documents to senior leadership.
• 10% PROJECT RISK ASSESSMENT - Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches. Monitors project activities for the occurrence of
• risks and takes timely action to escalate or mitigate the risk. Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed.
• 10% PROJECT LESSONS LEARNED - At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Leaders. Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects.
• 10% PROJECT ENVIRONMENT - Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment. Ensures teams are staffed, duties and
• responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained.

• Reports to Sr Finance Manager.
• This role has no direct reports.

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• MBA, CPA, CMA
• 2 years of experience working in large, matrixed Retail organization as a business or technology partner for Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Store Ops, or IT areas.
• 1 years of focused experience in Business Process Re-engineering, Standardization and Continuous Improvement
• Demonstrated experience in implementing major ERP systems such as SAP as Functional SME or Configurator.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate organizational structures and build credibility with internal clients / stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work effectively with IT and Business stakeholders and delivering value
• Demonstrated experience in managing complexities of competing priorities and program inter-dependencies
• Strong business acumen; experience implementing financial processes and systems with an ability to discriminate between symptoms and root causes.
• Track record as an excellent facilitator capable of influencing people over which he / she has no authority
• Ability to direct, coach and mentor functional managers, analysts and other junior members of the team.

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

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• Ability to perform detailed analyses as well as create executive summaries of the analyses.
• Ability to present and defend own work and work of others to senior leadership.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to influence the decisions of individuals that you do not supervise.