Core IS Performance Manager

Function : IS
Country : All areas
Location : La Défense
Supervisor : CIO

Context :

In 2024, the Industrial Solutions & Projects Business Group will separate from the Nexans Group to become an independent company.
Our future company, which will become a reality at the end of 2024, boasts double-digit growth, prospects for expansion in sectors at the heart of the energy and industrial transition, with an international presence close to our customers.
We manufacture and design cables and complex solutions for our industrial customers. With a balanced presence between Western Europe and Asia, and recent investments in Poland and the United States, our human-scale company is a local player with a global reach.
Over the course of this year, we will be working together to define our identity, values and working methods in line with our culture, our size and our ambitions, while building on our century-old industrial culture, the solidity of our technical skills and our proximity to our customers. Speed, responsiveness, simplicity and pragmatism will be at the heart of our approach.
As part of our separation, we need to set up our own support teams for the central functions: Finance, Human Resources, Information Systems, Purchasing and Legal. More than 50 positions are being created to form new, autonomous teams.
Given the innovative nature of our approach, and our desire to completely redefine our support needs and imperatives, each of these new positions offers a unique opportunity to have a direct and visible impact on the future of our company.

Purpose:

The Core IS Performance Manager directs budget and cost controls. He performs financial analysis, accounting practices and reports. He analyzes and interprets financial data and recommends changes to improve systems and financial performance. The context will oblige to focus on global cost relative reduction
He/she leads, next to the CIO, the IS global performance partnering the other IT member.
He/she is accountable for IS Budgets and controlling (Corporate P&L, Group IS budget consolidation) at global level. Therefore, he/she has to consolidate vision within a global reporting.
He/She is the main business partner on financial, administrative, legal and perfomance topic to IS community
He/She also has to facilitate the communication with the different BG/areas IS accountable representatives if needed.
He/She drives the IS Administrative processes and define standard reporting.
He/She is in charge of support, review and follow-up for IS studies and Business / Projects cases in collaboration with the Strategy team. Therefore, he/she is responsible for the financial aspects of the transformation of IS Organization and lever on contractual aspects our Suppliers.
He/she leads the transformation of Controlling and Administrative to a more digital and automated way
He/She has to prepare reporting and Budget for IS governance bodies at Global level (IS Management Committee, Corp/Global functions Committee).
He/she support IS directors in the set-up and standardization of the processes, the monitoring and cockpit tools and the Service Delivery efficiency measurement through digital dedicated KPI dashboards.
He/she ensures the proper organization for the contractual respect by the suppliers and subcontractor, their performance measurement and if necessary the optimization of the contracts.
He/she coordinates the structuration of the IS key data through the definition and finalization of the activities and services digital catalog.
He/she coordinates the rationalization and automation of the internal operational processes of the group IS organization.
He/She drives governance with Legal and Purchasing and is part of Service delivery committee with main suppliers
He/she is part of the IT Demand committee and communicates decisions towards Finance community

Responsabilities:

Strategy & Design
- Drive the improvement of the productivity and the cost reduction
- Be the finance leader within IS
- Follow the IS Value Creation Plan (VCP)
- Drive the IS Cost Control Tower (CCT)
- Guaranty cost transparency
- Financial business partnering within IS organization
- Manage transfer pricing and support Business organization on the understanding
- Impose the costs analysis of new solutions and ROI justification
- Insure the Service Catalogue cost understanding
- Participate to objectives elaboration
- Drives Performance organization and initiatives
- Lead contract management for Core IS with purchasing and Legal department, and best practices within IS organization
- Be financial and performance driver of all main IS contracts
Development & Delivery
- Ensure the proper IS accounting and monthly closing monitoring through the group and contribute to Group consolidation process for IS
- Realize IS financial reporting and ensure expenses and investment analysis
- Animate and manage expense and investment processes through IS
- Manage the IS budgetary process
- Maintain administrative procedures relating to expenses and invoicing
- Follow-up and validate all the expenses, requests for supply and investment of the IS Department
- Implement and follow Time tracking of IS team
- Control the financial follow-up of projects efficiency
- Follow Service catalog pricing and transfer pricing principles
- Establish the invoicing and chargeback to IS internal customers
- Setup KPI
- Drive the Performance roadmap and calendar of IS
- Steer the services costing
- Ensure the Benchmark with the market
Processes and Tools
- Drive and simplify administrative processes and standardization of the tool used for IS
- Implement necessary structured and automated budget and forecasting tool
- Insure the development and the automatization of reporting via BI tool: reporting factory
- Setup of the new processes and governance enabling the new organization.
- Support the definition and the setup of the IS standard administrative tools : time tracking, ticketing, contracts library, capacity planning, demand management and IS services valorization (Services costing), ITAM, ITSM
- Coordinate the activities and services catalogs definition and evolution
- Ensure the Measurement of the services performance
- Allow the harmonization of activities and services specially through the tool from the IS (Ticketing, time tracking, ITSM, ITAM tools)
Performance measurement
- Setup the organization allowing this operational performance measurement
- Ease the communication and diffusion of digital dashboard through the IS organization and its internal customer
- Ensure the measurement the IS services performance from a user standpoint through the adequate tools setup.
- Share the Global SLA and KPI with end users.
- Ensure the measurement of partners performance through the KPI defined in the contract’s SLA.
- Coordinate the standardization of the report provided to the different Business Group
- Participate to IT Demand governance
- Steer the measurement of the performance per nature of activities :
  - Release management
  - Incident management
  - Project management
  - Change management
Contract/Service management
- Lead the global IS Contract Library setup allowing a better risk management and dedicated alert.
- Ensure the right definition and respect of the defined governance within all Business Group/Area, with all subcontractors and external providers in addition of their SLA respects.
- Ensure the support of the IS team in the respect of legal and financial requirement in their contract management.
- Ensure the support of the IS team in the respect of administrative processes and the proper contract respect.
- In support of IS team, and in relation with Purchasing and Legal department, setup the governance and a dynamic steering of external partner relationship.
- Re-define the sourcing strategy.
- Initiate or support IS RFP
Activities and Services catalogs
- Coordinate the activities and services catalogs definition and evolution
- Steer the services costing
- Ensure the Measurement of the services performance
- Ensure the Benchmark with the market
- Allow the harmonization of activities and services specially through the tool from the IS (Ticketing, time tracking, ITSM, ITAM tools)

Expected results:

Drive the cost relative reduction through the close Follow up of the VCP and driving the CCT
Ensure respect of Financial and performance tasks throughout the year (budget, monthly closings of group IS, KPI production, Contract management ...)
Drive : savings, efficiency increase, through the proper measurement
Partnering the CIO and IS leaders on specific issues and requests (projects, analysis of opportunities, ...)
Prepare and accompany the budget presentation to the Executive Committee, IS Management Committee; Provide budget and forecast according to the Group Corporate Finance’s standards & timing.
Provide a Quarterly report on IS, with a follow-up on the budget in Opex and Capex
Steer the efficiency of Performance and administrative processes within IS
Automatization of performance and financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting process

Required skills:

Master in Finance and 5 years’ experience in Finance field
Professional English
Stress resistance
Business partnering
Rigorous, an experience in audit should be appreciated
Mastering of Nexans’ Finance Tools : Nexans FI & CO principle, ideally experienced with industrial controlling
At ease with tool : HFM and Essbase Administration, BI tools (power BI), SAP is a plus
At ease with transfer pricing principles
Good understanding of Costing model (ABC-Variable costing)
Appetite to automatize, simplify
Appetite to contractual topics
Ability to travel abroad (20% abroad)
Good communication skills to coordinate the budget processes with:
- IS Stakeholder
- the Group Controllers and CFOs worldwide and Central Finance teams
- Legal and Purchasing team