Main Purpose:
At Trafigura, we're implementing a transformative OneStream EPM solution to manage critical financial processes including Consolidation, Tax Planning, and Overhead Allocation. This platform will serve as the cornerstone of our Management and Statutory reporting, integrating with numerous peripheral applications across our global landscape.
As our OneStream Techno-Functional Lead, you'll bridge the gap between technology and finance, playing a pivotal role in our unique co-building implementation model where you'll collaborate directly with vendor partners and business teams to create a robust, future-proof solution.
You'll help shape a system that directly influences Trafigura Group's financial reporting capabilities while building valuable in-house expertise that reduces external dependencies. Your work will ensure our OneStream platform remains secure, current, and optimally configured through its entire lifecycle—from implementation through ongoing cloud updates and enhancements.
This role demands complete ownership, accountability, and integrity as you evaluate the completeness, robustness, and extensibility of solutions being implemented both functionally and technically. The change/data-sensitive nature of our financial systems requires your vigilant attention to detail and deep understanding of the Trafigura landscape.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
- Accounting Acumen
- IT Product lifecycle
- Techno-Functional EPM (80% Technical, 20% Functional)
- System Integrations
Key Responsibilities
Participate and Learn from Co-Building the application
- Build (OneStream application) together with implementation partner and business.
- Understand Product configurations, solution design, flows, integrations
- Provide IT expertise in managing and defining Data migration runbook and help translate business Data migration complexities to IT in simplified form.
Application Patching, Release Upgrades and impact analysis
- Analyze application security patches and share potential impact on customizations build in the product from IT perspective for validation.
- Liaise with Business system analyst on recommended Release upgrade patching. Mutually agree on IT and Business side impact to proceed with patch application to the environment.
Business Analysis and Process Improvement
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and system analysts, align business requirements to organizational IT strategy.
- Review changes for Production releases.
Validate Solution Design, BAU Support and Documentation
- Design IT solutions in an highly integrated environment and map legacy systems to new transformation products.
- Propose practical and innovative solutions, document technical process flows, user cases, stories and suggest improvements.
- Provides high level of support to Business and system analyst during the implementation phase and BAU for peripheral systems. Assist System analysts in troubleshooting.
- Creates a knowledge base in confluence with relevant information captured in documents.
- Coach and Mentor the vendor team members for the assigned work stream.
- Support Technical Developers in discussions on future enhancements like ESG reporting needs especially with IT specifications and Solution Design.
Quality Assurance
- Validate quality, flexibility of solution being implemented for current and future needs.
- SIT ensuring business needs are met, align with design agreed and works well with integrated platforms.
- Independent Review of the Build and SIT.
- Preparing SIT Test cases and performing Instream/Cumulative testing.
- Provide inputs in validating and enhancing regression test pack for QA.
- Provide functional inputs and assist QA team to build automation.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Technology.
- Master in Technology. (A big plus)
- Understanding of Accounting standards, understand Management reporting both Internal and External. Fundamentals of consolidation, budget planning and allocation. (A big plus)
Experience:
- 10+ years of total experience as a Software developer.
- 2+ years of proven experience in EPM (OneStream) implementation experience as a Technical lead.
- 2+ years of experience with ERP implementation and integration with EPM is a BIG Plus.
- Techno-Functional Subject Matter Expert skills are highly regarded.
- 3+ years of experience with Product testing and supporting QA in a complex, interconnected environment
Skills:
- OneStream EPM Techno-functional skills in implementing Consolidation, Tax, Overheads planning.
- Ability to interpret and articulate Business Requirements.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Understanding of principals of cloud-based platforms including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
- Ability to understand programming languages. Prefferably C#, Database query language, VB.Net. Javascript is an add on.
- Understanding of Data Conversion and Migration from legacy applications to newly implemented applications.
- Proficiency in project management softwares (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
- Solid expertise in financial matters, particularly Group reporting
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
Work Environment:
- This position typically operates in a professional office environment. Some travel will be required depending on project needs and stakeholder locations.
Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Department Overview
Trafigura is committed to building and maintaining world class IT applications and infrastructure. The Trading IT group directly supports the Trafigura trading business, and this business has started a far-reaching programme to enhance and improve its trading applications using an innovative architecture to support business growth across the full range of business lines and geographies, and to enable the sharing of systems across different businesses.
These programmes are aimed at delivering functional capabilities, enhancements and technical infrastructure upgrades to enable continued business growth and enhanced profitability for the firm.
Reporting Structure
- Reports to Senior Technical Lead
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.