Finance Integration - Business Transformation and Readiness, Advisor

Southern California Edison • Pomona, CA

110d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Clean Energy Revolution as a Finance Integration - Business Transformation and Readiness, Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. The NextGen ERP Program will span over 5 years leveraging emerging digital solutions in concert with re-imagining and transforming our current processes and organization to make dramatic improvements to operational performance, as many companies are doing across industries. We are looking at an approach that not only upgrades the systems but also transforms our business processes to maximize efficiency, improve data quality, and provide better integrated decision making across the enterprise. We are currently in the implementation phase of the ERP program, leveraging a hybrid agile approach to drive change. This effort goes beyond a system upgrade—it's a fundamental redesign of our core financial processes. Our goal is to streamline operations, enhance data accuracy, and enable integrated, enterprise-wide decision-making. Finance Integration is one of four tracks that play a critical role in delivering these outcomes. This role sits within the Finance Integration Track with sub-tracks covering finance functions including; Treasury, Financial Planning & Analysis, Plant Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Accounts Payable/Receivable, and Time & Pay. The team is responsible for implementing future-state designs that transform core finance functions. The position supports efforts to ensure solutions across the finance implementation align with business needs and enterprise goals. Serving in this role, you will ensure business requirements are met and complex integration is fully addressed through streamlined and rationalized processes that align with new technological capabilities for the relevant process area and activities. As an Advisor within the Finance Integration track, your responsibilities will include but are not limited to supporting the design, build, and implementation of one of the following sub-tracks: Treasury, Accounts Payable, and Financial Planning/Group Reporting/Financial Reporting Record to Report Timekeeping and Payroll Capital and Non-Energy Billing. As Finance Integration - Business Transformation and Readiness, Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Requirements

• Seven or more years of business operations and/or transformation experience.

Nice To Haves

• Five or more years of experience with Finance, Accounting or Business Operations and/or Strategy.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or other related field.
• Experience and proficiency with MS Office 360 applications, including TEAMS, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, CoPilot.
• Experience with enterprise-level financial reports and dashboards by leveraging S/4HANA capabilities, PowerBI, Alteryx, or other enterprise reporting tools.
• Experience and knowledge of SAP/ERP applications/modules with understanding of related business processes and operating models spanning one or more business process domains, such as: GL Accounting, SAP Finance and Payroll modules (FI, CO or S4 Hana Finance), and/or SCE cost flows.
• Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal, along with negotiation and influence skills.
• Experience translating complex business needs and requirements into appropriate technological solutions.
• Experience identifying and implementing process improvements or technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to provide support for key decisions and to secure buy-in for fit-to-standard and custom solutions developed to meet business needs.
• Lead cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation and integration of business operations software and systems ensuring that business requirements are met for assigned business process area.
• Lead implementation workshops and other forums to gather, synthesize, and validate information, ensuring a robust understanding of existing business processes and requirements.
• Conduct thorough evaluations during the implementation phase to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement in current procedures.
• Challenge the status quo, drive transformational change, and recommend practical solutions that align with implementation goals.
• Analyze and synthesize data and process flows, incorporating best practices to support the implementation strategy.
• Make informed recommendations or decisions based on this analysis, and present key findings to stakeholders.
• Design and document future state business processes and requirements that align with the new system capabilities.
• Collaborate with technical team experts to enhance processes, including performing comprehensive user integration testing.
• Provide functional guidance and supervision to analysts.
• Build relationships and interact with peers, managers, system integration (SI) partners, directors, and all levels of leadership to achieve implementation objectives.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations and support other work activities that align with project milestones.

Benefits

• This position is eligible for company benefits and incentives during the duration of the assignment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Utilities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree