Director, Applications Financial Systems - (REMOTE)

Since 2012, we've grown to become one of the leading single-family rental companies and homebuilders in the country, recently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Great Place To Work®.  At AMH, our goal is to simplify the experience of leasing a home through professional management and maintenance support, so our residents can focus on what really matters to them, wherever they are in life.      The Director, Applications Financial Systems is responsible for the design, implementation, planning, mentoring, and directing the financial systems and applications team. Develops and implements process driven technical knowledge, systems, data, and analytical skills. Works in a cross-functional team environment and collaborates effectively to implement and maintain solutions. Ownership of short-term to mid-term execution of functional strategy and the operation direction of the department. Works with executive leadership within the financial and accounting teams to develop strategy, design, and implementation of process and technical solutions. Requires ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and ability to communicate and influence executive leadership.   Responsibilities:

• Plans and oversees day-to-day departmental objectives, monitors team deliverables, performance, and provides corrective action when necessary. Assists in providing training for IT staff and business users. Directs departmental team through guidance, administration, maintenance and updates of assigned application platforms and business verticals. Provides leadership for the selection, maintenance, enhancements, training, upgrades, and other core components of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other financial systems software. Plans and works closely with the business and internal IT personnel, system vendors and staff as system changes and upgrades are planned, tested, and implemented. Assures modifications and upgrades are successfully tested before implementation to the live environment.
• Manages relationships with executives and key stakeholders across business units to support initiatives, requests, and complex escalations. Manages vendor and internal relationships within projects and day-to-day operations for the applications. Determines modifications, upgrades, and testing schedules for financial analysis and applications. Manages project resources, funds, and schedules to ensure responsiveness to business needs.
• Collaborates with IT and finance departments on system requirements to meet business needs. Partners with cross-functional teams on product evaluations, implementations, and upgrades. Obtains specifications, research, and design of new implementation of systems and process.
• Ensures application inventory, documentation, and modelling for all applications and supported verticals. Utilizes standard reporting tools to write, maintain and support a variety of reports or queries for business and IT use. Works with IT, Data and BI staff to …