Role: Finance Program Manager
Location: Cork, Ireland
Duration: Contract
Experience: A minimum of 10 years of experience in IT financing is required
Language: German (Fluent) Must have
Essential Functions:
* The Program & Portfolio Manager role has responsibility for a wide range of support and analysis tasks relating to customer financing. You will help to ensure that departmental objectives and project deadlines are met. The essential functions of the department include:
* Identify and facilitate requests for sales and various financing program partners. Maintain open and regular communication with our outsource funding partners.
* Support outsourcing partners within internal meetings and keep in touch with sales reps and managers (cross-functional).
* Oversee operational reporting from all financing partners to. Highlight issues and successes as appropriate.
* Support existing portfolio of financing transactions that are outside of the outsourced financing programs. Provide support and direction to Sales during the total deal lifecycle.
* Provide support to transfer the existing finance customers from legacy Client financing model to new outsourced model.
* Light travel: Customer meetings might be required within Germany, Switzerland and Ireland.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills in both German and English. Fluency on legal language in German and English especially in terms of financing contracts .
Job Description
* Strong analytical skills and ability to work both independently and on cross functional teams. Ability to build strong working relationships across all levels of the organization, including remote areas in a hybrid working model.
* Ability to function well in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities.
* Ability to work in a project-based environment
* Ability to lead multinational and cross border finance projects
* Ability to follow standard accounting and finance practices, and departmental procedures and processes.
* Understanding of legal language in German and English especially in terms of financing contracts.
* Strong Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and the M365 Power platform (Teams, Power Automate, Sharepoint, Power BI) Basic technical understanding and the ability to learn about Client technology.
* Basic knowledge about AI and ability to use it for taking care of the tasks within the
Responsibility and Interaction:
* The tasks this individual is responsible for are often unstructured, have wide implications and there are multiple outcomes.
* This individual will apply broad expertise or unique technical/industry knowledge in solving problems that are unique and complex given time, budget and resource constraints.
* Demonstrate leadership and vision in determining and driving strategy decisions.
* This individual must work effectively with Staff to Vice President level employees within the function, across functions and with external parties.
* Limited supervision is provided, as this individual can operate, drive results, and set priorities independently.
* The ideal candidate will be a proactive contributor and subject matter expert.
* To be successful, this individual must demonstrate favorable results through leadership and influencing multiple individuals and groups.