Financial Systems, It Lead

Overview
Responsibilities

• Collaboration on continuous improvement initiatives involving the Company's financial and inventory systems with a focus on IT development or coordinating IT development of automating processes, reducing redundancy, and providing enhanced financial insights to support business decisions.
• Develop an efficient process for gathering financial system business requirements, analyzing risks associated with potential solutions, and advising process owners of best approaches.
• Leader for developing, maintaining, testing, and implementing finance applications in a diverse technology environment including IBM I, Microsoft SQL Server, multiple ERP systems, automations, integrations, and banking providers.
• Lead financial system governance and ensure sufficient testing and control requirements are followed when developing, testing, and deploying solutions and enhancements.
• Provide guidance with respect to ticket resolution and prioritization and continue to build the technical capabilities to anticipate problems, identify root causes, and be proactive about preventing issues from occurring.
• Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of current state systems and processes.
• Act as the primary Finance liaison with IT and 3rd Party vendors on technical items, such as upgrades, enhancements, maintaining systems interfaces, and issue resolution.
• Work collaboratively with within Finance (e.g., FP&A, Tax, Accounting), Inventory & Supply Chain teams to identify, evaluate and recommend other key technologies or optimizations within existing systems to further help scale the overall business.
• Continue to push the envelope: monitor new financial technology trends and introduce the right solutions when appropriate, e.g., RPA.
• Be available for support requests that may arise during off-business hours.

Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or equivalent combination of intellectual instruction and work experience

Experience Knowledge:

• A minimum of (7-10) years of technical experience in information technology business systems.
• Experience working in a retail environment is a plus.

Required Knowledge:

• In depth knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server specifically in agent scheduling, debugging, and creating new scripts for running tasks; communication configuration.
• Network communication protocols (FTP, SFTP, SSh)
• Retail business systems preferred.
• Financial systems and general business systems
• Knowledge of Sage MAS500 or other finance ERPs strongly preferred.
• Prior experience with Jira or similar project/backlog tracking tools in an Agile multi-team environment preferred.
• Familiarity, experience with RPA / UI Path desired.
• Familiarity, experience with Concur T&E and/or other T&E software, integrations desired.
• Familiarity with Linux and other similar platforms, including AS/400 desired.

Skill and Ability:

• Ability to reason, work independently, solve complex problems, and apply logic.
• Ability to work in dynamic environment with deadlines.
• Strong cross functional communication, written and verbal.
• Ability to mentor peers.

Equal Opportunity Policy
The Vitamin Shoppe is an equal opportunity employer. We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, separation, recruitment, pay and other forms of compensation, access to facilities and programs, training and general treatment during employment.
We firmly believe that every Health Enthusiast has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. Our goal is to maintain a satisfied and productive team of Health Enthusiasts. The keys to reaching that goal are effective leadership, equal application of fair human resources policies, competitive wages and benefits, and close attention to all health enthusiast matters. The Vitamin Shoppe is committed to the principle of fair and impartial treatment of our Health Enthusiasts.
Health Enthusiasts with questions or concerns about equal employment opportunities in the workplace are encouraged to bring these issues to the attention of their Human Resources representative. We will not allow any form of retaliation against Health Enthusiasts who raise issues of perceived discrimination in good faith. To ensure our workplace is free of artificial barriers, violation of this policy may result in disciplinary action, up to and including discharge.
Compensation
The wage for this position is based on many factors such as role requirements, skill set, years of experience and other organizational needs. The estimated range is $90,000 - $120,000 per year.