OSD Finance Solution Manager aka Solutions Delivery Manager

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OSD Finance Solution Manager aka Solutions Delivery Manager


As the world’s leading Software Company, Microsoft has pioneered many of the technology innovations which have paved the way for the digital information revolution. With products ranging from the Windows operating systems to the Office productivity suite, the Visual Studio suite of developers tools, the Xbox 360 video game platform, and a broad range of new offerings in high-growth areas including Web-based services, unified communications, search, advertising and much more. Microsoft continues to be the worldwide leader in helping people and businesses realize their full potential!

Microsoft’s Online Services Division is an exciting fast growing business division, and is responsible for delivering online services which seek to empower our users by bringing them closer to the people and information that matter most to them. OSD’s mission is to enable people everywhere to gain knowledge and creativity from the web by computationally understanding user intent and matching that with published content, advertising offerings and software services. Online Services develops technologies that provide an online advertising platform for publishers and advertisers; personal communications services such as e-mail and instant messaging; and online information offerings such as Bing Search and the MSN portals and channels.

The OSD Finance Solution Delivery organization is looking for an experienced and energetic Solution Manager to join our team who will help us to execute our OSD Finance organization’s mission in support of the Division. OSD Finance’s mission is to empower people with knowledge through financial expertise, operational excellence and sounds advice. In this exciting role you will be accountable for end to end solution management and will have the opportunity to gain deep knowledge about the business model, processes, capabilities and systems. This role spans groups inside and outside of OSD Finance; therefore the candidate must be a leader/performer in strategic thinking, problem solving, decision making and cross-group collaboration while using cross-group collaboration to build consensus, influence plans as needed to enable successful delivery, and ensure execution of cross-group tasks. This role is a leadership role which will partner with senior management regarding our Microsoft Partner ecosystem.

Job Responsibilities:
Maintain a strong relationship and regular communications with stakeholders (including senior management) in OSD Finance in relation to their business goals & priorities, and how process automation through IT solutions will help them reach their goals.
Create and maintain a cohesive, coordinated implementation plan to deliver projects that meet those process automation needs.
Execute processes around authoring & maintaining business requirements, issue/risks lists, etc. related to the project.
Form the information obtained in the above steps into a solution proposal. Communicate and build consensus with other groups regarding this solution & options available to implement it.
Drive the prioritization process by which decisions are made around the final project scope.
Individually, or in conjunction with other groups, develop specific project plans to address implement the project.
Execute on these project plans and assist others in executing on project plans across the various groups.
Use industry-standard approaches to document requirements and other project particulars such as Joint Application Design and Use Cases. Use the Microsoft Solutions Framework as applied within OSD Finance.
Primary author & accountable for overall Business Requirements Document, UAT plan and other related project deliverables.

Job Qualifications:
· Strong interest and experience in developing and improving Finance business capabilities, processes and associated systems.
· Ability to perform at a team and broader organizational level focusing on the work assigned to multiple team members and associated issues, risks, and implications.
· Excellent interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships across groups and management levels.
· 10+ years managing end-to-end, large scale or several medium scale projects.
· Ability to influence others.
· Excellent decision making skills.
· Effective time management in complex situations.
· Ability to effectively deal with ambiguous situations.
· Strong working knowledge of the SDLC.
· Ability to effectively communicate using multiple media formats to present ideas/plans.
Job Deliverables
· Manage and lead a team and/or cross-functional project team to ensure delivery of a complex solution plan of critical information containing analytical and evaluative information for use by others. Own and drive the design and development of product or initiative plans. Specific examples might include, but are not limited to some of the following:
Status reports
Metrics
Strategic business plans
Key performance indicators
· Key contributor to the solution design. Deliverables include but are not limited to:
Conducting initiative Kick-off meeting, establish and document initiative Charter
Setting goals and objectives for direct reports and/or project team members
Conducting project core team meetings
Conducting regular scheduled 1:1’s with project team members
Conducting program reviews with Director/GM/VP levels
· Complex client/customer requirements. Specific examples might include, but are not limited to some of the following:
Business Usage
Content Design
Business Requirements
Vision Scope document
Business Case
Initiative Charter
Operational Specification
Pre-Baseline Review
· Complex product or initiative components including, but not limited to some of the following:
Strategic Product Plan
Feature map
Release plan
As is process
To be process
Managing within budget constraints
Baseline Review
· Complex product or initiative related communications, such as:
Scorecard
Status Reports
Compliance status
Design/Development issues
Team SharePoint content
Web content
White paper
Evangelizing the product/initiative
Satisfaction survey
Project or initiative review to Director/GM level
Responsible for managing relationships with multiple Internal Clients or complex businesses across WW SMS&P
· Implementation, deployment, and maintenance of complex product plans such as:
UAT (scripts & process)
Training plans and execution
Legal review
Post implementation review
· Central point of contact for Internal Business Clients, IT and the Regional Operations Centers and provides leadership for design and implementation of all functional aspects of a program launch or performance improvement initiative.
· Overall budget responsibilities for owned initiatives or products, including but not limited to:
Securing budget dollars during budget planning process &/or throughout fiscal year.
Tracking & approving the actual spend to budget during the lifecycle of the project/initiative.
· Responsible for managing the Resource Planning for all aspects of the initiative or project that includes project management, analysis, development, testing & training resources.
· Utilize the Initiative Management Framework or MSFT Solutions Framework for a complete set of deliverables when managing projects.
Related projects completed as assigned

Job Process
· Build relationships with key stakeholders for validation of business requirements, end user experience assessments, work flow process documentation, communication plans and verification of system requirements to business requirements.
· Brings a broad and deep range of experience and take business models into account when driving solutions to complex business problems.
· Works independently on most problem-solving with a need to escalate for complex issues that span organizations.
· Focused on objectives that contribute to both technical and business aspects of operations strategies
· Defining the benefits of product through a business case analysis
· Formulating a distinctive strategy for supporting business needs by defining scope
· Clarifying and documenting vision, business rules and requirements
· Mapping progress against requirements throughout project
· To develop and maintain complex product components, by:
Mapping Process Models
Obtaining input from client/customer and team to see related satisfaction
· Insure high quality of implementation, deployment, and maintenance of complex products, by:
Clearly communicating the product or program plan to all key stakeholders
Communicating and adhering to all project processes, including by not limited to:
· Standard development life cycle
· Design/change requests
Acting as client/customer advocate & providing applicable product-related information
Writing or coordinating user acceptance tests and conducting sessions
Writing or ensuring user/training guides are completed and/or conducting training sessions
Reviewing product or programmatic processes with legal resources to insure compliancy
· Conduct post implementation reviews to understand satisfaction, issues, and items to improve upon in future projects and initiatives