Senior Director, Corporate Systems

Job ID: 251661
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Remote Eligible:Hybrid Schedule

Company Overview:

At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves.  We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us.  We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

The Opportunity:

Your role at Sephora... As our Senior Director, Corporate Systems, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, planning, mentoring, and directing the financial systems and applications team. Responsible for providing strategy, creating roadmap, and driving delivery of corporate systems (ERP, Finance, Inventory, In-direct Procurement). Reporting to the VP of Engineering - Enterprise Systems, you will work in a cross-functional team environment and collaborate effectively to implement and maintain solutions. Ownership of short-term to mid-term execution of functional strategy and the operation direction of the department. Working with executive leadership within the financial and accounting teams to develop strategy, design, and implementation of process and technical solutions. This role requires the ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and ability to communicate and influence executive leadership.

Your responsibilities include:

• Provides leadership for the selection, Implementation, enhancements, training, deployment, support of core corporate systems that include Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP S/4HANA), In-direct Procurement (Coupa), Financial Planning (Anaplan), Sales Audit (APTOS/SAP CAR) and other critical systems
• S4 HANA Migration: Drive and lead all aspects for the successful migration of legacy SAP systems to S4 HANA across the organization. Collaborate with multi-functional teams to define the migration roadmap, ensure project timelines are met, and minimize disruptions to business operations.
• Manages relationships with C-Level executives/Controller/VP Business and key stakeholders across business units using extensive knowledge in Finance/Corporate Systems/Finance Knowledge to groom ideas, strategize initiatives, manage new requests, and complex escalations
• Act as a solution architect and deep functional expert, offering industry expertise and the ability to correlate business needs to SAP capabilities.
• Manages vendors and internal relationships within projects and day-to-day operations for the applications.
• Manage project resources, budget, and schedules to ensure responsiveness to business needs.
• Technology direction and accountability of all corporate systems including finance and strategic sourcing.
• Lead number of talented Engineers/Managers/Directors (contractor and full time) and able to mentor, guide, and lead to deliver on improving corporate systems and supporting them.
• Drive business process and engineer systems for continuous improvements.
• Work closely with Business partners and build strong business relationships.
• Manage Audit requirements, data gathering, enforcing IT audit controls
• Demonstrate our Sephora values: Passion, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect, Teamwork, and Initiative.

We would love to hear from you if…

• Retail Industry experience in Technology team managing corporate systems (S4 HANA/ECC as ERP) and finance eco-systems development, implementation, and support in fast paced environment.
• Experience managing teams as a director or above and experience managing managers, full time resources, contractors, vendors, and system Implementors.
• Experience in leading S4 HANA migration projects is preferred
• Extensive knowledge of Finance functions and eco-systems including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Travel, Controlling, Costing, Sales Audit, Procurement, and consolidation is must.
• Proven experience in vendor management, contract negotiation, and budget management.
• Extensive experience with managing integrations of Finance systems with Digital Store, Supply Chain and Bank systems is must.
• Must have managed large Capex /Opex budgets and be able to control and oversee spend.
• Candidate will have a wealth of technical knowledge and expertise, backed by experience doing world-class work. (would prefer those grow up through ABAP coding, configuring SAP in the past to leadership role).

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The annual base salary range for this position is $257,130.00 - $285,700.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job.  Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses.  Sephora offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan, various paid time off programs; employee discount/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program. This job will be posted for a minimum of 5 days.

While at Sephora, you’ll enjoy… 

• The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.  
• The learning. We invest in training and developing our teams, and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
• The culture. As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family, our reach is broad, and our impact is global. It is in our DNA to innovate and, at Sephora, all 40,000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3,000+ stores, are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

You can unleash your creativity, because we’ve got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve, because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself, because you are what sets us apart. This, is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future, at Sephora.

Sephora is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status. Sephora is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Sephora will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.