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About McDonald’s:One of the world’s largest employers with locations in more than 100 countries, McDonald’s Corporation has corporate opportunities in Hyderabad. Our global offices serve as dynamic innovation and operations hubs, designed to expand McDonald's global talent base and in-house expertise. Our new office in Hyderabad will bring together knowledge across business, technology, analytics, and AI, accelerating our ability to deliver impactful solutions for the business and our customers across the globe.Project Role:Functional Solutions – Manager – Global Franchising Finance Systems [GFFS]Level:Manager - [G4]Location:IndiaWorkstream:Functional SolutionsRole Summary:McDonald’s has an exciting opportunity for a finance transformation professional.Global Finance Modernization (GF Mod) is a multi-year transformation to enable Global Finance to achieve its vision of being a strategic advisor to the business where Finance is shaping and leading critical strategic initiatives across the enterprise, driving growth and enterprise value. This program focuses on all aspects of Finance, including transformation across our people, processes, operating model, and technology. GF Mod will improve the employee experience and allow Finance to deliver a more seamless and consistent experience to its customers.This role will serve as the Functional Solutions Manager for Global Franchising Finance Systems [GFFS] and will be responsible for liaising with the business to understand and translate their requirements into technology needs. This role will form part of our ‘sustain wave’ of GF Mod. You will partner with our technology experts and global process leads to develop and test solutions, while also analyzing, defining, and improving finance related processes and systems to support key organizational capabilities. Additionally, you will ensure that Global Finance solutions align with business goals and optimize Global Finance operations.The candidate is expected to reside within Hyderabad, India.Key Responsibilities:As the GFFS SME (ERP Product Owner), within the functional solutions team, in addition to following McDonald’s policies and procedures, principal accountabilities include, but are not limited to:Strategic Execution:- Execute on the strategy and roadmap; and partner with teams who understand and can interpret the technical requirements. - Oversees deployment of changes, providing support in implementation, execution, and adoption of products in the business - Collaborate with global finance stakeholders to collect and document their requirements related to GFFS, related systems, processes, and data. - Partner with the technology experts and global process leads for configuration. - Advise leaders on how to optimally leverage technical capabilities to align with their strategic objectives. - Execute on the design, implementation, and optimization of GFFS and related systems, ensuring they meet business needs and global finance strategies.Cross-functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:- Serve as an GFFS (Franchise) functional expert, coordinating on questions, solutions and tools, transactional and reporting capabilities, interfaces, testing, and any related communications or training support related to that functional capabilitySystem Optimization, Evaluation, & Management:- Partner on the evolution of global finance processes with global process leads - Assess the effectiveness and suitability of existing global finance software, tools, and recommend enhancements or replacements as needed. - Partner effectively with Finance stakeholders, our technology experts, and 3rd party vendors to improve system integration between solutions - Adhere to global finance systems and processes comply with regulatory requirements and maintain data security and privacy standards.Change Management, Documentation, & Adoption:- Partner on change management execution to facilitate the successful adoption of new finance processes and technologies. - Oversee support of user acceptance testing - Ensure any changes to solutions go through the appropriate audit and controls reviews. - Execute the comprehensive documentation of business requirements, functional specifications, data models, and process mapsKnowledge and Skill RequirementsQualifications and experience:- Proven experience in Product Management, with a strong focus on product strategy. - Demonstrated ability to manage the entire product lifecycle of an ERP system. - Understanding of Finance systems including financial statements etc. is required. - Familiarity with the franchise domain is preferred. - Experience with any ERP system is acceptable; knowledge of Oracle Fusion ERP is a significant advantage. - A degree in Business, Finance or Technology preferred - Experience working with Oracle Fusion (preferred) - English Proficiency (written and verbal IRL Level 4)Skills:- Ability to understand finance and business requirements for GFFS and translate those into prioritized, executable solutions - Ability to effectively communicate and work with management both within and outside of Finance - Ability to develop / maintain strong business relationships - Strong communication, presentation, and influencing skills - Strong knowledge of ERP Cloud solutions. Oracle ERP experience is a plus - Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills - Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training