Overview

Good people, working with good people, for our common good.

Sound good?

KeHE-a natural, organic, specialty and fresh food distributor-is all about "good" and is growing, so there's never been a more exciting time to join our team. If you're enthusiastic about working in an environment with a people-first culture and an organization committed to good living, good food and good service, we'd love to talk to you!

Primary Responsibilities

The Finance Systems Strategy & Initiatives Director will support collaboration across functions to build a roadmap of innovation for the Finance team. The position will partner with leadership in Finance to align on plans, prioritize initiatives, determine resource needs, help to implement the plan. The Finance Systems Strategy & Initiatives Director will lead initiatives and support implementation of each according to the roadmap prioritization.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate across Finance leadership to develop a systems roadmap, to include:
  • Prioritize system, automation, dashboard wish list into a manageable plan
  • Based on prioritization, create a 3-year roadmap of systems/automation requests for all of Finance
  • Estimate costs to implement roadmap
  • Create communications of what benefits we will achieve through the roadmap (where are we going and what will we get from it – either in ROIs or other soft benefits and/or keep the lights on needs)
• Partner with IT to ensure visibility to the Finance Systems Roadmap, and to establish a relationship by which Finance can implement on the roadmap plans with minimal resource needs/constraints from IT
  • This role will help to build or implement the systems, lead the building of dashboards OR lead the project with a third party consultant who has the necessary coding knowledge – third party IT coding support should be included in the cost estimates of the roadmap itself.
  • This role should be dotted line relationship to ensure IT is aware of our plans, but the Finance Systems leadership role is responsible for implementation.
• Support and drive implementation of prioritized systems projects, to include:
  • Develop project plan with business owners
  • Build and implement the systems (build the connections, move the data to the right databases/boxes or hire contractors to do the work, as necessary).
  • Create visibility to status of projects, including potential roadblocks and issue resolution plans.
• Ensure implementation of roadmap components is completed on time, on budget and on benefit.

Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude

• Proven history of multiple successful, large scale system implementations required
• Ability to think critically, identify innovative solutions and transform data into actionable insights
• Clear concise communication across all levels of the organization
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally to achieve results
• Experience building persuasive business cases and facilitating multiple organizational leaders to align on prioritized system initiatives
• Experience building and presenting dashboards
• High attention to detail and experience completing projects on time, on budget and on benefit required.
• Must be resourceful and well organized with an ability to work on multiple projects, across multiple leaders and with minimal supervision.
• High energy level, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to get along with diverse personalities, and flexible.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft suite applications, especially Excel, Power Point and Power BI

Education and Experience:

• 10-15 years experience with prioritizing technical initiatives, building business cases and implementing multiple technology solution projects required.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar work experience required.