Finance Assistant Director – Technology

The Finance Assistant Director – Technology position provides executive-level functional leadership for the Finance Department’s technology, enterprise applications, and financial systems. Serves as the Finance Department’s primary functional technology liaison and business owner/leader for critical financial and administrative applications, including Oracle Cloud ERP, EPM, and HCM, Capital Project Management System (CPMS), Kyriba, and other Finance-supported software and integrations. Ensures applications and technology solutions support Finance operations, financial controls, reporting, security, compliance, data integrity, and strategic objectives. Coordinates with Information Technology Services (ITS), departmental technology staff, vendors, consultants, and Finance divisions to plan, implement, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve technology solutions. Metro Finance has several divisions, including procurement, treasury and management and budget. The department's employees are charged with providing financial management, information and business products to policy makers, departments, investors and the Nashville community to give them confidence in our government and to help them make informed decisions.Leads Finance Department technology and application strategy.

• Develops and maintain a Finance technology and application roadmap aligned with the Director of Finance’s priorities, Finance business needs, Metro technology standards, and enterprise initiatives.
• Assess current and emerging technology capabilities and recommend improvements, replacements, integrations, and process automation.
• Establishes priorities for application enhancements, projects, upgrades, and system improvements based on business value, risk, cost, operational impact, and regulatory requirements.

Oversees functional support for Finance enterprise applications.

• Provides functional leadership and oversight for Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle EPM, Oracle HCM, CPMS, Kyriba, and other Finance-supported applications and software.
• Serves as the principal Finance functional point of contact for application issues, enhancements, configuration decisions, integrations, and business requirements.
• Coordinates with ITS and vendors on technical administration, infrastructure, interfaces, security, environments, system performance, and application support.
• Monitors application availability, reliability, performance, and business continuity and escalate critical issues appropriately.

Manages application lifecycle, projects, and system changes.

• Leads or oversee requirements gathering, business process analysis, solution design, configuration review, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support for Finance technology initiatives.
• Establishes and coordinate user acceptance testing, regression testing, release readiness, and implementation plans for major system changes.
• Evaluates system releases, patches, upgrades, new functionality, and vendor roadmaps for operational and financial impacts.
• Coordinates cross-functional projects involving Finance, ITS, Human Resources, Budget, Procurement, departmental users, vendors, and other stakeholders.

Ensures financial data integrity, reporting, and system controls.

• Promotes accurate, complete, timely, and secure financial and operational data across Finance applications and interfaces.
• Oversees development and maintenance of financial reports, dashboards, queries, extracts, and other decision-support tools.
• Identifies system and process risks that could affect accounting, payroll, budgeting, treasury, procurement, collections, capital projects, pensions, or other Finance operations.
• Supports the design, documentation, and maintenance of application controls, approval workflows, segregation of duties, audit trails, and other internal controls.
• Coordinates with internal and external auditors and other reviewers regarding technology-related financial controls, system processes, data, and documentation.

Coordinates application security and access management.

• Works with ITS and appropriate Finance leadership to establish and maintain role-based application access consistent with job responsibilities and segregation-of-duties requirements.
• Coordinates periodic reviews of application access, security roles, privileged access, and user accounts for Finance-supported systems.
• Ensures identified security vulnerabilities, control deficiencies, and access issues are documented, evaluated, and addressed through appropriate channels.
• Supports implementation of applicable Metro information security policies, standards, and recommendations.

Directs incident, problem, and service management for Finance applications.

• Establishes effective processes for reporting, prioritizing, tracking, resolving, and communicating application incidents and service requests.
• Analyses recurring issues and lead root-cause reviews and corrective actions to reduce repeat incidents.
• Coordinates with ITS, vendors, and Finance subject-matter experts to resolve complex application and integration problems.
• Communicates significant incidents, system impacts, workarounds, and resolution status to Finance leadership and affected stakeholders.

Leads Finance technology governance, documentation, and business readiness.

• Establishes and maintain Finance-specific standards, procedures, application documentation, system inventories, support models, and technology governance practices.
• Maintains current documentation for critical applications, interfaces, business processes, system dependencies, and support responsibilities.
• Develops and coordinate training, communications, and change-management activities for Finance users affected by technology changes.
• Promotes consistent technology practices and effective use of enterprise applications across Finance divisions.

Provides leadership, coordination, and strategic advice.

• Advises the Director of Finance and Finance leadership on technology risks, opportunities, system capabilities, and investments.
• Translates complex technical information into clear business and financial implications for executive and non-technical audiences.
• Leads cross-functional workgroups and project teams and coordinate work across organizational lines to achieve desired outcomes.
• Performs research, benchmarking, and analysis and recommend solutions to complex operational and technology problems.
• Performs other related duties as required.Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university and eight (8) years of experience in system implementations, including governmental financial systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), and human capital management (HCM) applications. "For this specific position, substitution will not be considered”.

Candidates with accreditations earned in a foreign institute are encouraged to apply.

Note: Per Metro Ordinance No. SO94-1078. All employees of the Metropolitan Government shall be residents of the State of Tennessee or become residents of the state within six (6) months of employment as a prerequisite to employment with the Metropolitan Government.• Experience in treasury and cash-management systems; capital project management systems; financial reporting and analytics; application integration; business process analysis

• Experience in system implementation and lifecycle management; application controls; user access and segregation of duties; data governance; incident/problem management; vendor management; and technology project management.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. Metro Nashville is committed to selecting the most qualified candidate for each of our roles. Metro Nashville Government respects the religious beliefs and practices of all employees and will make, on request, an accommodation for such observances when a reasonable accommodation is available that does not create an undue hardship on business operations.

Requests for ADA or other protected accommodations for the recruitment process should be directed to General Sessions Court at 615-862-5199.