Assistant Vice President, Platform Specialist - Eleven Recruiting

About Eleven Recruiting
We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for best pay, diversity in tech, and best job-fit for every candidate we place.

Our client, an investment firm, is seeking an experienced Assistant Vice President, Platform Specialist to join their team in Los Angeles, CA!

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business users on how best to optimize the end-to-end business processes for proprietary Funding Approval system and vendor product TMS.
• Collaborate with technology on how best to optimize the technology platform for the business processes.
• Develop a super user community / center of excellence for the technology platforms within the business to minimize key person risk and standardize business process and technology usage.
• Act as a high-level subject matter expert of both the business processes and technical detail within the platform to improve the time to market on technology solutions.
• Drive training (planning and delivery) to ensure users are maximizing the capabilities of the platform.
• Facilitate QA and UAT efforts by driving test case definition to reduce the number of bugs in production.
• Facilitate the prioritization of the resolution of bugs and enhancements to the platform to manage capacity across teams.
• Understand business and technology interdependencies across the platform to ensure robust technology solution delivery.
• Facilitate the implementation of large technology projects including applications upgrades across the platform in collaboration with counterparts across the business and IT.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Data team to establish and maintain governance / standards around data within the platform to improve data quality.
• Engage with peer firms and external providers to ensure Oaktree is keeping pace with leading practice and leveraging the most relevant capabilities of the technology platform.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in finance technology implementations (TMS experience preferred).
• Knowledge of treasury management and cash management.
• Knowledge of deal workflows is a plus.
• Proven ability to manage tasks with competing priorities and deadlines, independently determining order of priority and self-initiating other value-added tasks.
• A demonstrated ability to influence others at all levels in a very collaborative way.
• Shown ability to coordinate across large teams and gain consensus.
• Knowledge of Hazeltree or other TMS preferred.
• Experience implementing workflow tools preferred.
• Experience in the areas of project management, financial management and change management.
• Experience working on developing vision or strategy, and any experience with innovation is a plus.
• Superb communications skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Visio, Project, PowerPoint, MS Sharepoint/Teams or equivalent applications.