Senior Finance Program Manager

Overview

The Senior Finance Program Manager for the Asia Region is a business-driven leader that will be responsible for overseeing and executing a major SAP S/4 HANA upgrade program reporting to the Head of Global Business Services and Finance Transformation. This role requires a seasoned Finance professional with project management experience and a deep understanding of both the business and technical aspects of SAP transformations. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects involving cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Driving Process harmonization across the Asia region in conjunction with the Global team. Ensuring designs are globally standard and regionally relevant
• Overseeing execution of Program benefits realization, managing workstream activities, issues and risks for Asia region
• Develop and foster relationships with key IT and business leaders, project managers, portfolio stakeholders, and external partners
• Provide daily management of Finance workstreams in the Asia region
• Collaborate with business and finance leadership to support project requirements, vetting and prioritization processes
• Support overall program by provide consistent and effective portfolio dashboards, portfolio reviews, scorecards, and reports for the Asia region
• Ensure compliance and alignment with the Program Management Office (PMO) standards and processes
• Identify, track, and help resolve cross-portfolio dependencies and conflicts in support of the Asia region
• Serve as the point of escalation for project stakeholders or requestors with issues directly related to Finance in the Asia Region
• Managing requirements/demand for new work
• Managing communication/collaboration across the program, driving data driven decsions

Qualifications

• At least ten years work experience in an enterprise environment
• Successfully managed a large S/4 Hana implementation that included some level of business transformation
• Ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels of the organization including managing through cross-business area or business unit prioritization discussions
• Expert understanding of finance and order to cash business processes
• Experience in implementing and maintaining accurate key performance measures relating to program status for a global S4 Program
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams), and Smartsheet
• Fluent English is required and Mandarin is a plus

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.