Interim Global Finance Transformation 3E Delivery Lead at Dentons

Key Areas of Focus

• Alignment of 3E solution activities across GFT teams; accomplished by working with peer lead roles.
• Ongoing evaluation and improvement of service delivery services (e.g., release management, vendor workflow, testing and issue resolution).
• Continual monitoring of tools and approaches to ensure alignment with Dentons standards and best practices.
• Ongoing leadership to regional development teams to ensure we deliver solutions aligned with regional software solutions.
• Effective and timely communication with vendors, GFT team and internal stakeholders.
• Working with GFT Services Lead, establish, communicate and manage against priorities and required timelines whilst ensuring delivery supports technical and business outcomes.
• Provide leadership to 3E Delivery team, which is planned to include: Solution Architect, Delivery Analysts, Compliance Analyst and vendor who is providing core code delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure documented standards are identified and maintained, including expectations from vendors.
• Advanced understanding and involvement in DevOps framework and alignment of Delivery team’s activities.
• Identify and communicate agreed upon build and release process that will support the 3E delivery activities.
• Working with the Global Solution Architect, ensure environments support timelines and requirements of deployment schedule and sequencing.
• Ensure required workflows are established to support efficient testing and remediation activities.
• Plan and control 3E build, QA and functional test and defect resolution.
• Proactively liaise with delivery vendor, Business Process leads and Solution Architect to resolve requirements queries.
• Represent delivery in Program and Technical Design governance bodies.
• Actively manage delivery risks.

About You

• Business international level of English – both written and oral;
• Highly collaborative and able to work in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered;
• Particularly strong written communication skills;
• Particularly strong organizational skills;
• Strong knowledge and experience in IT/Finance practices;
• Experience of multinational IT and Finance operations;
• Experience working as part of global business and/or technology transformation programs;
• Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
• Experience of working within a fast-paced agile / DevOps project and/or operational environment
• Ability to clarify complex problems and communicate these issues towards both DevOps and business teams;
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities with experience in balancing technical trade-offs;
• Be a team player, able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
• Drive out decisions and recommendations;
• Independent, pro-active way of working.
• Knowledge of development strategies, approaches and tools.
• Ability to drive a development project from start to finish whilst delivering on time.
• Strong technical team leadership and supplier management is essential
• Experience of legal finance and practice management systems (especially 3E) and supporting solutions and technologies (time & billing) will be highly desirable.

You will possess:

• Post-secondary education with a specialization in Information Technology.
• Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with legal platforms across a broad spectrum of technologies.