IT Manager, Financial Applications & Integrations

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Joining TSSA means becoming part of a team of experts from diverse fields, backgrounds, and cultures. It’s an opportunity to hone your skills, expand your knowledge, build a rewarding career, and realize your full potential.

Position Summary:

The IT Manager, Financial Applications & Integrations will collaborate with IT team members, business stakeholders and project sponsors in the delivery and support of financially-focused business solutions, generally related to Epicor ERP applications.

The role will apply well-honed consultative skills, project management acumen, functional and technical skills in the management of application sustainment. The role requires adaptability to project environments including waterfall methods, agile delivery teams, or a hybrid of methodologies, depending on the nature of the project/program.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and grow organizational team members.
• Manage a team of IT professionals including Developers, BA’s and vendor partners.
• Promote a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Build rapport and elicit problem details from internal customers (and external customers where applicable).
• Collaborate with architects, developers, business analysts, IT infrastructure team members, project managers / scrum masters, product owners, and various business stakeholders to implement Financial solutions, and to ensure smooth and reliable operation of systems and processes.
• Strong ability to conduct sessions with business stakeholders to understand, gather and document business requirements and assess solution configuration options
• Manage work with in-house sustainment team and vendor partners to integrate solutions into new and existing architectures.
• Build and support business case development for new solutions and resources.
• Document functional and technical specifications and requirements and create installation instructions as may be required.
• Identify and learn appropriate software used and supported by the organization; lead team with same.
• Comply with all assigned administrative, operational, and financial tasks.
• Adhere to established policies, standards, and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of systems and data.
• Provide support to Project Managers for project plans, budgets, schedules, risks and issues, and related delivery needs.

Job Qualifications:

• Degree from Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven and successful track record with Epicor ERP applications, and related Microsoft technologies, and similar products and integration methodologies.
• Experience with common application platforms, development tools and best practices.
• Working knowledge of SharePoint integration.
• Working knowledge and deep understanding of Azure DevOps and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Certification in a technical field or functional discipline is a plus.
• Knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies for large and complex projects
• Strong leader with ability to work with a diverse team of resources – employees, contractors, vendors, etc.
• Strong communication and organization skills and ability to work interdependently across the organization.
• High tolerance for ambiguity; high acceptance of change; ability to calmly lead team through uncertainties; ability to make decisions without having all the facts.  

Inclusion And Equal Opportunity Employment:

TSSA is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are committed to building and maintaining collaborative, caring and positive work environments so that our employees bring their whole selves to work each and every day. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status or disability. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. 

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This job posting is for an existing vacancy within TSSA. We are actively seeking a qualified candidate to fill the current position. We encourage all interested applicants to apply.   

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