SAP Finance Application Manager

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

YOUR ROLE

Within the Corporate Applications team, the application manager is responsible for managing solutions related to SAP Finance platforms (ECC, S/4 Public & private cloud).

The application manager will work with their team on all functional and technological aspects related to the aforementioned solutions across the entire scope of IT activities (maintenance, upgrades, and projects of all sizes). The position plays a central role in the organization of the Corporate Applications scope due to the critical nature of accounting data and its exposure to business management.

This work will be carried out in conjunction with the FiPP team domain manager, business process owners, and the group's finance and IT departments.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ?

As an application manager, the main activities are as follows:

• Supervising functional and technical teams and managing delivery capacity
• Maintaining the consistency of the core model
• Defining the functional and technical architecture
• Defining the technology roadmap, development methods, and standards
• Managing the execution of the backlog established with process owners and domain managers (capacity, arbitration, monitoring, etc.)
• Monitoring, with our partners, the health of applications (stability, availability, incident log, etc.)
• Managing the schedule for the release of fixes and upgrades
• Coordinating with the domain manager for project activities
• Managing relationships with partners involved in application-related activities (publishers, integrators, etc.)
• Coordinating cross-functional IT activities (architecture, security, data, etc.)
• Establishing the budget with transformation/business domain managers and monitoring its execution
• Coordinating with other application managers in the connected application landscape or dependent on the SAP Finance scope

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR ?

• Minimum 5 years' experience
• Management experience required
• In-depth knowledge of SAP finance applications
• Proficiency in accounting and/or management control
• Comfortable with highly complex functional environments and high transaction volumes
• Ability to manage the schedules of several initiatives (projects, development, maintenance, etc.) simultaneously
• Experience in international management/service centers
• Experience in leadership roles within major transformation programs and project management

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !