• Director, Financial Business Systems

    CoStar Realty Information, Inc. (Arlington, VA)


    Director, Financial Business Systems

    Job Description

    Overview

     

    CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

     

    We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings for our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating platforms that have become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

     

    The Director, Financial Systems (legacy) is responsible for supporting and managing multiple Financial Business Systems for CoStar, which is a $3 Billion publicly traded company. The role provides support and is intimately familiar with the processes performed by functional business areas supporting the CFO organization. Reporting to the Senior Director of Global Financial Business Systems, the primary mission of the position is the functional, technical, and administrative support of financial business systems outside of the core corporate systems. These principally consist of the legacy systems of acquired businesses now a part of the company.

    Essential Functions

    + **Strategic Planning and Management:** Develop and implement strategies for managing legacy systems, including modernization, integration, and eventual migration/decommissioning.

    + **Technical Oversight:** Ensuring the ongoing stability, security, and performance of legacy systems, ensuring that critical business processes continue to operate

    + **Acquisition** **s** **:** Provide for the intake of newly acquired financial business systems, initiating process, compliance, and functionality reviews, documenting systems, assessing staffing and training needs, staffing transitions, and bringing systemsinto the portfolio of managed legacy financial business systems

    + **Vendor Management:** Managing contracts, agreements, and relationships with vendors who provide support and maintenance for legacy financial business systems.

    + **Problem Solving:** Addressing technical issues, security vulnerabilities, and other challenges related to legacy systems.

    + **Team Leadership:** Leading and mentoring direct IT staff and supervising contract staff, both on-site and remote, to achieve the goals of the team and company

    + **Collaboration:** Supporting business stakeholders (billing, collections, cash, accounting, finance, etc.) on the business use of legacy systems, and collaborating with other IT departments on the network access and vulnerability/security patching of the legacy systems

    + **Migration:** Working with other IT and FBS teams, supporting projects that result in the migration of business activity from legacy systems to the core corporate financial business systems of the company

    + **International:** Responsible for systems, as well as direct and contracted staffing, located domestically and internationally

    + **Compliance:** Ensuring that legacy systems comply withthe relevantITGC/SOX regulations and standards of the company, that change control/management requirements on legacy systems are met, and supporting access management to legacy systems

    Qualifications:

    + Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Administration or related field from an accredited, not-for-profit college or university

    + A track record of commitment to prior employers

    + 10+ years’ experience in the management, development and support of financial business systems in public/private cloud, client/server, midrange and/or enterprise server computing environments.

    + At least 5+ years of experience must be within a large, publicly traded organization.

    + Extensive implementation, support, and management experience with multiple different ERP, CRM, and other related financial business systems. Great Plains, NetSuite, Navision, Dynamics, Oracle, SAP, QuickBooks, Sage, Salesforce, Zuora, etc.

    + Expertise in managing multiple, simultaneous small/med-scale ERP environments ($10M+).

    + Expertise in leading and managing a professional IT staff (7+) with a track record of hiring and developing a high-performance team

    + Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with all levels of the organization.

    Preferred Qualifications

    + International experience is highly desirable.

    + Experience in Services/SaaS/Internet-based businesses is highly desirable

    + MBA or other related master’s degree, preferred

     

    What’s in it for you?

     

    When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

     

    We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

    Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

    + Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug

    + Life, legal, and supplementary insurance

    + Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family

    + Commuter and parking benefits

    + 401(K) retirement plans with matching contributions

    + Employee stock purchase plan

    + Paid time off

    + Tuition reimbursement

    + On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent)

    + Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups

    + Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

     

    We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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    CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing

     

    CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

     

    We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

     

    CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CoStar is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

     

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