Essar
10000+ employees
About Essar
The Essar group operates a number of world-class assets diversified across the core sectors of energy, metals & mining, infrastructure (comprising ports and EPC businesses) and services (primarily comprising shipping, telecom retail, technology and outsourcing businesses). These assets are controlled by Essar Global Fund Limited, an investment fund managed by its investment manager, Essar Capital Limited. The fund is a global investor and its portfolio companies have combined revenues of US$35 Billion. The group employs over 60,000 people across five continents and 29 countries, and has adopted international standards in health, safety, environmental protection and corporate governance. Over the last four decades, Essar has grown through strategic global acquisitions and partnerships, or through greenfield and brownfield development projects, capturing new markets and discovering new raw material sources. Today, the company has expanded its global footprint, focusing on markets in Asia, Africa, North America and Europe. Essar invests significantly in the latest technology to drive forward and backward integration in its businesses, and to leverage synergies between these businesses. It also focuses on in-house research and innovation to be a low-cost manufacturer with high quality products and innovative customer offerings. In its commitment towards social responsibility, Essar's initiatives across plant locations, focuses on education, healthcare, environmental and agricultural development, and self-employment. Essar is committed to sustainable business practices. Its 'Health, Safety and Environment' management system is at par with global standards. Essar is widely regarded as a responsible and conscientious global employer. It has experience in managing businesses in different geographies with a culturally diverse workforce.
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Description
- The DoD US Federal Financials Solution Manager will serve as a driving force and champion for developing solution offerings within the Solutions & Innovation organization. In this position, you will be responsible for leading the analysis, definition, and adjudication of solutions that support Department of Defense federal financial budgeting, planning, execution, and reporting, with a strong emphasis on ERP-based environments, trading partner system integrations, shared services models, and full life-cycle implementation considerations. The role supports internal solution development and go-to-market priorities through leadership, individual contribution, and close collaboration with federal customers and internal technical stakeholders. Solutions developed under this role are transitioned to Client Services teams for execution following contract award.
- Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary point of collaboration with federal customers and stakeholders to gather, validate, and adjudicate solution requirements supporting DoD federal financial management missions.
- Analyze federal customer business processes and operational challenges and translate validated requirements into clear solution definitions for products and services.
- Provide functional and technical expertise related to DoD ERP environments, including ERP deployments, migrations, sustainment, trading partner integrations, and shared services models.
- Collaborate with solution architects, engineers, and innovation teams to ensure federal financial business process and trading partner integration requirements are accurately translated into solution designs and capabilities.
- Assist in the collection, documentation, and refinement of solution requirements, workflows, assumptions, constraints, and integration considerations.
- Support internal solution development activities by refining solution scope, assumptions, constraints, and integration considerations to support go-to-market readiness.
- Serve as an action officer for solution development efforts by managing tasks, timelines, dependencies, and requirements traceability across internal stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain repeatable processes, schedules, and execution rhythms to support efficient solution development and readiness.
- Manage and coordinate internal solution development teams and tasking to advance solution maturity and go-to-market readiness.
- Ensure solution documentation and artifacts are developed to support capture, proposal, and business development activities.
- Provide regular status updates to Solutions & Innovation leadership regarding solution progress, customer requirements, risks, and dependencies.
- Support proposal development activities as a solution author and reviewer and assist in identifying technical resource needs to support compliant proposal responses.
- Stay abreast of advances in DoD financial systems, ERP platforms, trading partner integrations, shared services models, and implementation approaches to inform solution evolution.
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Management, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or commensurate experience.
- Prior government employment (civilian or military) or demonstrated deep experience supporting DoD government organizations, with a strong understanding of government roles and responsibilities for managing business processes and technically enabling those processes.
- At least ten (10) years of experience in one or more of the following areas in a federal or enterprise solutions environment:
- Department of Defense federal financial management systems and federal financial business processes across OMB Circular A-11, Part 83, including Object Classes 11 through 99
- SAP and/or Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems operating within DoD environments
- Multiple full life-cycle ERP implementations, including design, configuration, integration, testing, migration, deployment, and sustainment
- Integration of ERPs with DoD trading partner systems (e.g., payroll, travel, logistics, medical, personnel, or other mission systems)
- Operation or support of shared services support organizations, including providing solutions for customer onboarding and sustainment
- Demonstrated experience collaborating directly with federal customers to gather, validate, and adjudicate solution requirements and translating those requirements into solution definitions for products and services.
- Experience working with technical teams, system integrators, or engineering organizations.
- Demonstrated experience producing Functional Design Documentation (FDD) and collaborating closely with technical teams on Technical Design Documentation (TDD).
- Experience applying multiple ERP implementation methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, and Scaled Agile, to define solution requirements for migration-enabling tools and products.
- Proven ability to manage tasks, schedules, dependencies, and requirements traceability while keeping teams aligned and accountable across multiple stakeholders.
- Experience establishing repeatable processes to support efficient execution and solution development.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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Benefits
- Support for federal financial management systems and processes.
- Collaboration with federal customers and stakeholders.
- Opportunities to work with ERP platforms like SAP and Oracle.
- Participation in full life-cycle ERP implementations.
- Engagement in system integration and shared services models.
- Professional development in federal financial systems and ERP environments.
- Work in a mission-critical government environment supporting DoD operations.