Job Description

Business Partner, DTS Digital Finance, APAC

Key Accountabilities

• Drive strategic business value and innovation:
  • Builds and maintains strong relationships with the K-C Global Business Services and Finance leadership in APAC.
  • Acts as owner of DTS for Finance functional areas and serves as liaison between DTS teams and the business (\xe2\x80\x98One stop shop\xe2\x80\x99 or \xe2\x80\x98The face of DTS to the Business\xe2\x80\x99).
  • Is the single point of contact to the business and escalates in case of issues, both at Project level and Operational Support.
  • Partners at a strategic level with business stakeholders to communicate successes, demonstrate IT value and appropriate governance of IT activities
  • Accountable for DTS communication with the respective leadership teams for all aspects of IT, incl. budget, Business demand & portfolio, strategies and priorities
  • Oversees the development of business cases requiring IT-based solutions ensuring they deliver benefits, which are agreed and signed off by the key stakeholders prior to the project start.
  • Participates as required in development of business strategic planning and DTS strategic planning.
  • Proposes new services to business leadership in order to support business needs ensuring compliance with both local regulations and K-C standards & policies.
  • Proactively networks to identify synergies between IT capabilities and business strategy.
  • Promotes the value of DTS and the value of DTS projects to APAC Finance and GBS leadership.
  • Ensures that Total Cost of Ownership is taken into account, evaluated and acknowledged both by DTS and business leadership before initiatives start.
  • Tracks ROI for business initiatives including costs, benefits, and risks for all projects in functional area and communicates results internally within ITS and within broader KC
• Provide boundless leadership.
  • Leverage common solutions and innovative technologies.
  • Establish common objectives across DTS Business Partner organization and delivery teams
  • Develops, shares, and leverages best practices across IT region and shares with other regions
  • Provide a framework for business engagement
  • Provide business insights to change management plan and communications defined and executed by Business Analysts.
• Develop Ongoing Talent
  • Develops and maintains a broad business understanding.
  • Maintains up-to-date awareness of the current and future directions of the industry and associated technologies.
• Manage services provided to business through existing and new technology.
  • Gathers business needs and gains alignment between business needs and technical capabilities, engaging with Business Analysts and Enterprise Architects
  • Captures demand via the agreed process, provides recommendations for prioritization, and oversees program and project initiatives
  • Manages business expectations with business stakeholders based on DTS resource availability.
  • Ensures that project metrics are used to track value delivery including measurement methods
  • Provides details on cost, value, and opportunity to optimize IT spend (initiatives and support services)
  • Ensures that appropriate Service Level Agreements (SLA)s are in place based on business needs and capability and resource level of the respective delivery teams.
  • Is aware of DTS SLAs and communicates to the business as appropriate.
  • Promotes business projects and their value to the IT leaders and community.
  • Where appropriate, makes recommendations for implementation of new/upgraded systems and technologies and shares this information with leadership team member.

Key Qualifications and Experiences

• A Bachelor or Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree is recommended with minimum 8-10 years of IT experience or relevant functional business and process expertise appropriate to the role. ITS experience might be waived if Business experience is strong and person can demonstrate a strong knowledge of IT.
• Broad understanding of technologies used in Kimberly-Clark and interested in new technologies and market trends. Broad knowledge of other technologies (functional area dependent)
• Understanding of SAP technology and processes would be a strong advantage as SAP is one of K-C\xe2\x80\x99s core systems
• Experience building and communicating future business plans and capabilities along with being able to provide insights into the technologies required for delivery
• Financial acumen to support business case creation and measurement
• Experience in strategic decision making and successful influencing on leadership level.
• (Standard) Verbal and written fluency in English is mandatory. Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the K-C organization including suppliers, partners and customers.
• (Preferred) Prior Consulting experience in IT or strategy
• (Preferred) Project or program management experience in dealing with medium or large projects
• Additional recommended experience for some Business partner roles: Demonstrated team leadership experience

Core Competencies

• DIGITAL CORE - Continuous Learning (In-Depth)
• DIGITAL CORE - Cyber Security Awareness & Complian (Basic)
• DIGITAL CORE - Digital Workplace (Basic)
• DIGITAL CORE - Enterprise Agile (Basic)
• DIGITAL CORE - Identity Access & Management (Basic)
• DIGITAL CORE - Leadership Dimensions (Working)
• DIGITAL CORE - Outcomes (Basic)
• DIGITAL CORE - Product Owner (Basic)
• DIGITAL CORE - Scrum Master (Basic)
• FUNCTIONAL - Business Communications (Working)
• FUNCTIONAL - Investment Prioritization (Working)
• FUNCTIONAL - Strategy Development (Working)
• FUNCTIONAL - Thought Leadership (Working)
• FUNCTIONAL - Trusted Relationship (Working)

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Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

Primary Location

Malaysia - Petaling Jaya

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time