IT Squad Lead - Paris (x/f/m)

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Proven people leadership: you've hired, coached and developed a team — formally or as a lead-without-title — ideally 3+ people
• •Deep Finance ERP knowledge: end-to-end grasp of P2P, AP, AR, GL, Assets and Expenses, with hands-on fluency in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and working knowledge of SAP Integration Suite and SAP BTP
• •A strong delivery track record: you've led multiple complex ERP/Finance transformation projects on scope, budget and timeline, in a fast-paced international environment
• •Strategic and decisive: you can turn a strategic plan into an executable quarterly roadmap, make scope/budget trade-off calls, and run steering committees with senior stakeholders
• •Technical architecture ownership: you can run architecture/design reviews on an ERP + integration landscape, evaluate alternatives, and spot single points of failure — not just manage delivery of someone else's design
• •Practical AI fluency: you use AI tools to speed up configuration, testing, documentation and planning, and can set standards for your team to do the same — this is hands-on experience, not familiarity in passing
• •Directly manage 4 people: hire, onboard, coach and develop the team
• •Act as a business partner to Finance teams, not a pure IT executor
• •Lead multiple projects at once, owning end-to-end delivery within scope, budget and timeline
• •Own the roadmap and the budget
• •Translate the Core Finance IT strategic plan into a quarterly roadmap: identify, prioritize and resource projects
• •Own project and squad budgets, and keep financial commitments on track
• •Run steering committees and keep stakeholders and sponsors consistently informed
• •Own the architecture of the Finance IS landscape (SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, SAP Integration Suite, SAP BTP): evaluate design alternatives, run architecture reviews, spot areas of improvements and risks
• •Manage technical debt and raise the bar on quality and reliability: testing standards, monitoring/alerting, incident response and post-mortems
• •Be the squad's AI champion — bring in the right AI tooling for configuration, testing, documentation and planning, and set the standard for using it responsibly
• •Own projects spanning process transformation and tool implementation: ERP configuration, integrations, automations
• •Steer discovery and configuration on new modules, and coach engineers through implementation
• •Structure support and training on Finance tools: SAP S/4HANA, Concur, Egencia, SAP Integration Suite, Pivot
• •Document configuration decisions and implementation choices so the team's knowledge compounds
• •Own run/support delivery and drive change management and user adoption for new tools and processes
• •Proven people leadership: you've hired, coached and developed a team — formally or as a lead-without-title — ideally 3+ people
• •Deep Finance ERP knowledge: end-to-end grasp of P2P, AP, AR, GL, Assets and Expenses, with hands-on fluency in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and working knowledge of SAP Integration Suite and SAP BTP
• •A strong delivery track record: you've led multiple complex ERP/Finance transformation projects on scope, budget and timeline, in a fast-paced international environment
• •Strategic and decisive: you can turn a strategic plan into an executable quarterly roadmap, make scope/budget trade-off calls, and run steering committees with senior stakeholders
• •Technical architecture ownership: you can run architecture/design reviews on an ERP + integration landscape, evaluate alternatives, and spot single points of failure — not just manage delivery of someone else's design
• •Practical AI fluency: you use AI tools to speed up configuration, testing, documentation and planning, and can set standards for your team to do the same — this is hands-on experience, not familiarity in passing

Desired Qualifications

• •A business-partner communication style — consulting-style workshop facilitation, comfortable challenging and being challenged by stakeholders
• •Familiarity with treasury tools (Kyriba) and consolidation tools (SAP Group Reporting or equivalent), plus exposure to Spendesk, Boomi, or integrations into Workday/Zuora
• •A Big 4 or functional-consulting background in Finance IS, and experience driving change management and user adoption for new Finance tools