One Finance is a multilayer, multiyear enterprise initiative to Simplify The Home Depot’s Financial Systems landscape, Transform Finance Function and Support the success of One Home Depot vision.  Delivering on One Finance objectives are critical and foundational for achieving the Interconnected Retail experience.

The Home Depot’s Finance Systems landscape, consisting of heavily customized applications on disparate platforms and databases, is complex and outdated.  The current version of the core Finance System, SAP ECC, will go out of support and will be migrated to SAP S/4HANA on the Google Cloud Platform.  Additionally, the business transformation mandate requires end-to-end process streamlining and standardization, simplifying the Finance function, supporting enhanced analytics and enabling highly flexible reporting through “One Ledger” architecture.

In order to deliver these mission critical objectives, One Finance is structured as a fully dedicated Program Office within the Finance division, with the following functions:

• Program and Change Management
  • Overall responsibility to continually refine, measure and deliver planned business value
  • Program Governance to manage scope, budget, risks, and ensure quality and value realization 
  • Proactively manage change across all areas and levels to ensure change readiness and process / technology adoption
  • Business Process Applications
    • Overall responsibility to
      • Influence and drive end-to-end process streamlining and standardization based on industry leading best practices
      • Build consensus and drive decision-making by engaging the appropriate Business and IT stakeholders, at the right time and in the right forum(s)
      • Deliver application / system functionalities that are configured to support process simplification and provide better data insights
      • Manage and deliver planned business value for the assigned functional area(s) within the four work streams (discussed below)
      • Assess and utilize emerging Industry 4.0 technologies
      • Act as Business Process Subject Matter Experts (SME) in assigned area(s) within Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Finance API, and Innovation work streams.
      • Liaise effectively with –
        • Cross-functional stakeholders in managing design and scope decisions, and up-stream inter-dependencies
        • IT stakeholders in configuring / developing technical solutions and testing strategies that satisfy business requirements
        • Internal Audit and Finance Integration stakeholders on identifying and mitigating Security and Controls risks
        • Serve the role of a Product Manager to groom stories, prioritize backlog, lead agile ceremonies

           The five workstreams and relevant functional areas or scope are shown below -

          • Record to Report (RTR):  Master Data Design, Management and Governance, One Ledger Architecture; Cost Accounting; Financial Accounting; External Financial and Managerial Reporting; Acquire-to-Retire; Project Accounting; and Financial Planning and Forecasting
          • Procure to Pay (PTP):  Purchase and Inventory Accounting – Tracking, valuation and recordation of inventory movements from vendors through Supply Chain; Merchandise and Non-Merchandise Procurement, Payables and Payments (scope includes migrating Ariba and Concur T&E to cloud); and operational / managerial reporting
          • Order to Cash (OTC):  Sales Revenue Accounting; Accounts Receivable and Credit Collections; and operational / managerial reporting
          • Finance API (API):  Design, develop and deliver loosely coupled Common Services / API’s for enterprise systems to consume. 
          • Innovation: Follow trends and assess the viability of emerging technologies, such as BlockChain, IoT, and AI/ML. Influence the utilization and broader adoption within the enterprise.

            The Manager position supports the ‘Business Process Applications’ function of One Finance and will report to the Senior Manager of RTR, PTP, OTC, API, or Innovation work streams. The Manager will be responsible for leading the design and delivery of industry-leading processes and system functionalities pertaining to assigned functional areas. The position may have direct people responsibilities, but are required to actively partner with Systems Integrators, while engaging / managing matrixed internal business and IT stakeholders.
            
            Key Responsibilities:

            • Strategic Analysis/Problem Solving - Works to fully understand business; identify and implement process and organizational improvements. Plans and ensures execution of department objectives. Participates in preparation of the annual budget, reviews monthly expenditures and ensures that budgetary goals are met. Reviews monthly metrics to ensure goals are met.
            • Conduct financial planning for function and make appropriate recommendations.
            • Leads, plans, and coordinates work teams in an efficient manner to effectively perform any financial function and activity; utilizes metrics to track performance and manage workload. Ensures operational processes and procedures are compliant and consist with established policies.
            • Drive key functional financial metrics.
            • Project Management- Develops and supports a strategic alliance with business partners. Participates in cross-functional activities focused on solving business issues and enhancing our competitive advantage. Facilitates cross-functional communication with other areas of the business including but not limited to Finance, Human Resources, Real Estate, Operations, and Information Systems.
              Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
              • Typically reports to a Director level
              • This position has no direct reports.
                Travel Requirements:
                • Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
                  Physical Requirements:
                  • Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
                    Working Conditions:
                    • Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.