Director, Financial Business Systems

Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information analytics and online in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100 CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the worlds real estate empowering all people to discover properties insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings for our customers.Weve continually refined transformed and perfected our approach to our business creating platforms that have become standard in our industry for our customers and even our continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive is how we deliver for our customers our employees and equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

The Director Financial Systems (legacy) is responsible for supporting and managing multiple Financial Business Systems for CoStar which is a $3 Billion publicly traded company. The role provides support and is intimately familiar with the processes performed by functional business areas supporting the CFO organization. Reporting to the Senior Director of Global Financial Business Systems the primary mission of the position is the functional technical and administrative support of financial business systems outside of the core corporate systems. These principally consist of the legacy systems of acquired businesses now a part of the company.

Essential Functions

• Strategic Planning and Management: Develop and implement strategies for managing legacy systems including modernization integration and eventual migration/decommissioning.

• Technical Oversight: Ensuring the ongoing stability security and performance of legacy systems ensuring that critical business processes continue to operate

• Acquisitions: Provide for the intake of newly acquired financial business systems initiating process compliance and functionality reviews documenting systems assessing staffing and training needs staffing transitions and bringing systems into the portfolio of managed legacy financial business systems

• Vendor Management: Managing contracts agreements and relationships with vendors who provide support and maintenance for legacy financial business systems.

• Problem Solving: Addressing technical issues security vulnerabilities and other challenges related to legacy systems.

• Team Leadership: Leading and mentoring direct IT staff and supervising contract staff both on-site and remote to achieve the goals of the team and company

• Collaboration: Supporting business stakeholders (billing collections cash accounting finance etc.) on the business use of legacy systems and collaborating with other IT departments on the network access and vulnerability/security patching of the legacy systems

• Migration: Working with other IT and FBS teams supporting projects that result in the migration of business activity from legacy systems to the core corporate financial business systems of the company

• International: Responsible for systems as well as direct and contracted staffing located domestically and internationally

• Compliance: Ensuring that legacy systems comply with the relevant ITGC/SOX regulations and standards of the company that change control/management requirements on legacy systems are met and supporting access management to legacy systems

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Business Administration or related field from an accredited not-for-profit college or university

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• 10 years experience in the management development and support of financial business systems in public/private cloud client/ server midrange and/or enterprise server computing environments.

• At least 5 years of experience must be within a large publicly traded organization.

• Extensive implementation support and management experience with multiple different ERP CRM and other related financial business Plains NetSuite Navision Dynamics Oracle SAP QuickBooks Sage Salesforce Zuora etc.

• Expertise in managing multiple simultaneous small/med-scale ERP environments ($10M).

• Expertise in leading and managing a professional IT staff (7) with a track record of hiring and developing a high-performance team

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with all levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• International experience is highly desirable.

• Experience in Services/SaaS/Internet-based businesses is highly desirable

• MBA or other related masters degree preferred

Whatsin it for you

When you join CoStar Groupyoullexperience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training tuition reimbursement and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug

• Life legal and supplementary insurance

• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family

• Commuter and parking benefits

• 401(K) retirementplanswith matching contributions

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent)

• Access to CoStar Groups Diversity Equity & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups

• Complimentary gourmet coffee tea hot chocolate fresh fruit and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However please note that CoStar is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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