Assistant IT Manager – Bill 2 Cash

Job Title: Assistant IT Manager – Bill 2 Cash

Location: Bangalore

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Background

iOps puts customers at the heart of our business operations so we win with customers in the marketplace. ​

We are removing complexity, integrating our processes, and delivering the data, insights, and technology we need to create a great customer experience, while the world moves into the digital era. ​

​Simplifying operational tasks frees our time and resources to unlock growth for Unilever and more value for our customers and our partners.

Main purpose of job:

The delivery of IT agenda for Integrated operations is dependent on multiple IT platforms and Global Order 2 Cash is one of those.

The platform delivers strategic and global IT solutions for end to end Order to Cash cycle aligned to the iOps ways of working. Some of these solutions are Omprompt, Pega, High Radius & S4 HANA AATP.

Aligned to the iOps roadmap, we are delivering these solutions across markets globally and the scale of our operations plus user base is expanding with each business go live.

It is therefore important that these applications deliver the expected business value to be able to realise the market business cases. Technologies are meant to perform / provide assistance to perform a said business process and to ensure that the application is able to do so in full, an underlying service performance framework is very essential. This framework along with the KPIs to measure the success of this framework are needed to ensure that business is able to utilise the applications to their full potential. Also, any associated risks with the sustenance of these applications are required to be managed proactively.

The purpose of this role is to establish a service performance & risk management framework for all O2C IT services and ensure that services are sustained for long term value delivery with the help of key performance indicators to measure the performance of each service.

Key accountabilities:

Establish & govern the Service Performance & Risk Management Framework:

• Each service established as part of iOps is expected to address a unique business problem with a set of users from business operations team performing the day-to-day business tasks. Its therefore important to first establish the purpose and success criteria for each service.

• Establish key performance indicators aligned to the success criteria of each IT service

• Identify stakeholders to be able to realise the value of various IT services, sign off authorities for validating the value of all KPIs agreed

• Establish an execution team to perform the required activities to fulfil the agreed KPIs

• Run periodic governance along with the key stakeholders to ensure that the service is delivering the expected business value

While the above is a high-level framework to be established and governed by the service performance manager, the how part of the job can be understood as follows.

• Supplier management to ensure that the required resourcing, licensing, support contracts etc are in place and renewed on timely basis aligned to the allocated budget

• Cross platform coordination to ensure that all the support tickets are being worked upon as per the agreed framework and closed as per the agreed SLA with suppliers and other supporting platforms

• Platform resilience management to ensure that all services can perform the required business operation in full and in the allocated time without any disruption. To be managed using proactive measures and continuous monitoring framework

•  Act as a SPOC for central supplier management team to ensure any gaps on the support from associated suppliers is addressed on a timely and structured manner

• Act as the face of O2C platform to interface with various stakeholders to provide updates on the platform service performance and risk mitigations

Experience and qualifications required:

• Overall 5+ years of experience in IT of which 2+ years of experience working on service delivery, application maintenance, risk management and IT audits

• Bachelor’s in engineering, Computer Science required

• Experience building and managing complex IT process design/delivery of quality AM and SD practices

• Ability to work with multiple cultures, both within team and stakeholders

• Good domain knowledge to be able to work with Platform Directors, and global Stakeholders to ensure alignment within and outside Unilever IT organizations.

• Conversant with budgeting practices & governance

Key interfaces

• Counterparts in various IT platforms like ERP, Integration, Customer Development, Supply Chain etc

• Business stakeholders across globe

• Auditors

• Suppliers