Position Overview

Job Description

Harris Williams is an investment bank specializing in M&A advisory services representing sellers and buyers of companies worldwide. The firm is focused on providing sellside and acquisition advisory services to leading private equity groups as well as many Fortune 500 and privately held companies. Harris Williams approximately 500 employees operate out of six U.S. offices in Richmond San Francisco Boston Cleveland Minneapolis and Washington D.C. as well as our European advisory practices in London and Frankfurt. Harris Williams is a subsidiary of The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE:PNC). For more information please visit our website at: . MEMBER FINRA/SIPC.

Core Competencies:

Within Harris Williams IT the Finance Solutions Product Manager role will help drive our competitive advantage in investment banking by differentiating with technology. Focus for this role will be on Finance technology solutions.

The solutions product manager will operate with a customercentric mindset working closely with internal clients to synthesize business needs and system functionality into an innovative executable vision for Finance. As a key program leader the solutions product manager will research assess design and lead the implementation of technology solutions in partnership with Finance and technical engineering resources both internally and externally. This is a handson role; you will lead by doing.

This role is responsible for working closely with our finance partners to develop our future technology vision and implementation roadmap based on our pending move to the Oracle platform. This individual will lead the effort to design a simplified and automated technology suite of solutions that will provide finance and the firm with leverage to grow.

Core Responsibilities:

Vision

• Create a technology product strategy that modernizes automates and simplifies work for both finance and IT working closely with the Finance department.

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders becoming a Trusted Advisor to guide strategic decisions and ensure alignment with business objectives.

• Leverage deep domain expertise to provide insights and recommendations tailoring solutions to meet industryspecific challenges and opportunities.

• Ability to work with internal clients including senior levels to prioritize both largescale initiatives and smaller tasks to ensure timely and efficient completion balancing immediate needs with longterm goals and managing stakeholder expectations.

• Understand and contribute to all design aspects needed for any given financial IT solution (business requirements application information and data risk technology integration and infrastructure).

• Collaborate with Infrastructure Security Service Desk and Enterprise Application teams to ensure solutions adhere to Harris Williams IT standards.

• Utilize data analytics and metrics to inform decisionmaking processes driving strategic initiatives and achieving measurable outcomes.

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with vendors ensuring they meet performance standards and deliver value to the organization

• Collaborate with Finance to develop and manage the product budget ensuring alignment with strategic goals and efficient use of resources.

• Stay updated with the latest technology trends and continuously seek ways to improve financial systems and processes.

Product Ownership

• IT owner for all HW financial solutions such as Great Plains (current ERP) Oracle (future ERP) Purchasing and Procurement Expense Management and FP&A.

• Lead a direct and indirect team to sustain the existing platform MS Dynamics Great Plains while collaborating with external consultants to plan design and implement a new platform Oracle.

• Responsible for all areas of IT product ownership such as product strategy product backlog prioritization and management sprint planning daily standups retrospectives sprint demos story refinement and release planning.

• Ensuring systems are maintained updated and aligned with business IT and PNC (parent company) requirements.

• Partner with internal and external engineering resources to lead the following:

  • Institute appropriate governance change management and security principles for the platforms.

  • Apply best practices around systems data and processes for appropriate risk mitigation.

  • Integration ownership between finance platforms with other applications and vendors.

• Master data ownership and management for financial systems within the firm.

Delivery

• Ensure your product strategy considers process impacts and includes effective organizational change management. This approach helps align new initiatives with existing workflows minimizing disruption and fostering smooth transitions.

• Engage in handson development of proof of concepts including system configuration workflow setup and iterative solution refinement to ensure feasibility and effectiveness.

• Collaborate with internal and external technical engineering teams IT Finance and thirdparty consultants and vendors on design configuration software development testing efforts and seamless system integrations.

• Coordinate with external vendors and consultants to ensure timely delivery of services and products while managing contracts and performance.

• Monitor and control product budgets identifying costsaving opportunities and ensuring expenditures align with financial plans.

Job Specific Competencies Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems or relevant field.

• 10 years experience

  • Leading large enterprise implementation efforts with a history of proven success.

  • Utilizing structured IT product / program management methodologies.

  • Leading project delivery including in depth understanding of both functional and technical deliverables.

• Investment banking or financial services industry experience highly preferred.

• Experience implementing Oracle ERP platform including General Ledger Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Fixed Assets Cash Management Contracts Projects Financial Consolidation and Close Procurement and Purchasing and Accounting Hub.

• Strong proficiency in Oracle ERP modules including Oracle databases master data management and system integrations.

• Demonstrate a proven record working with external consultants and vendors to deliver successful largescale systems implementations and transformations.

• Experience ensuring finance systems and processes comply with relevant regulatory and compliance requirements such as SOX GAAP and GDPR and parent company financial technology governance requirements.

• Passionate about Financial systems technology innovation and a keen focus on simplification and automation

• Excellent interpersonal skills and strength in constructing and delivering program updates to a variety of audiences.

• Welldeveloped project management toolkit and experience with program and portfolio management tools. Agile and/or Six Sigma certifications is a plus.

• Extensive knowledge of business ecosystems software as a service (SaaS) and APIs.

• Ability to work across matrixed teams to effectively itemize prioritize and deliver workload.

In order to be considered you must be able to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

This description reflects the core activities of the role but is not intended to be allinclusive and other duties within the group/department may be required in addition to changes in the emphasis of duties as required from time to time.

Disclaimer:Harris Williams will not accept unsolicited resumes from contingency recruiters. Any such resumes received will not be considered as legitimate submissions andHarris Williams will not pay for the placement of a candidate resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Furthermore Harris Williams strictly forbids any contingency recruiter from representing the firm in the market without prior consent

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge skills and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills competencies work experience education and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills

Application Development Business Management Customer Solutions Design Group Problem Solving Process Improvements Release Management Software Solutions User Experience (UX) Design

Competencies

Effective Communications Hardware Infrastructure Negotiating Problem Solving Products and Services Requirements Analysis System and Technology Integration Systems Software Infrastructure

Work Experience

Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree with 5 years of industryrelevant experience. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree a comparable combination of education job specific certification(s) and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education

Bachelors

Certifications

No Required Certification(s)

Licenses

No Required License(s)

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility options for fulltime employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature) dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and longterm disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; backup child/elder care; adoption surrogacy and doula reimbursement; educational assistance including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition PNC generally provides the following paid time off depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 8 occasional absence days each year unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs including benefits for full time and parttime employees visitYour PNC Total Rewards.

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