Financial & Tax Applications Manager - Permanent Contract - Monaco

Main tasks

On all the applications and tools within its scope, which may be developed by internal teams or external publishers, deployed OnPrem or on IaaS or SaaS:

• Keeping a regulatory watch, identifying and monitoring regulatory developments
• Managing the contractual relationship with software publishers/integrators, and managing exchanges with subcontractors
• Provide assistance to business users, handle and monitor incident tickets and requests, diagnose malfunctions or call in the solution publisher/integrator
• Mobilise expert teams or knowledgeable people to deal with a request
• Manage assistance with the administration and configuration of applications, the creation of processing batches and their scheduling
• Gathering business requirements, prioritising, costing upgrades, managing upgrade projects with project teams
• Receive and validate software components within the scope of the application
• Monitor and coordinate the production roll-out of new versions
• Participate in defining the testing strategy for the application scope, contribute to the drafting of test scenarios
• Organise UATs with the players in the business departments
• Participate in the industrialisation of technical tests for the application perimeter
• Maintain and contribute to improving the documentation base
• Monitor and assist with application supervision
• Take part in drafting the technical aspects of the register of personal data processing activities (APDP)
• Helping to certify solutions in line with the chosen architecture
• Participating in the drafting of contract orders and other public procurement documents, and ensuring the execution of contracts relating to the application perimeter
• Assisting the administrative unit in monitoring and implementing the budget
• Analysing and retroengineering legacy applications and ensuring data quality as part of the IS modernisation process
• Participate in on-call duty and periodic interventions in HNO for production start-up or patch management.

Possible activities (non-exhaustive list)

As part of all projects within the scope of the application:

• Leading various project ceremonies (COPRO, COPIL, team meetings, etc.)
• Decommissioning applications or tools, creating and implementing new tools.
• Your knowledge of software technologies and architectures will enable you to participate in the design phases of upgrades and corrections to the solutions deployed.

You have a higher education qualification in IT/IS and 5 years' proven experience in a similar position as an applications consultant, applications manager or RUN project manager. Experience with a major account or large public body is desirable.

• Good knowledge of general IS technologies/architectures, N-Tier architectures
• Knowledge of sensitive IS platform concepts
• Proven experience of working with infrastructure teams (virtualisation, architecture, system administration, network, backup, supervision)
• Drafting of technical documents relating to a software platform requirement (scoping, technical specifications, DAT, DCT, DEX)
• Functional background in financial regulation and supervision of financial institutions and movements (e.g. FICOBA and STRIX)
• Good functional knowledge of taxation (intra-Community VAT, tax returns, transfer taxes, etc.).
• Gathering and analysing requirements, drawing up specifications, drafting added value in the form of User Stories
• IT problem-solving skills, identification of causes, corrections or
• proposing workarounds
• Mastery of SQL queries
• Drafting of RACI matrices and RIDA reports
• Good command of office and collaborative IT tools
• Experience of software development in a web-Java environment would be a plus
• Ability to write effectively and explain requirements in simple terms
• Ability to alert and escalate, manage priorities, handle several projects in parallel
• Leading meetings and working groups
• Language: professional English required

• Strong adaptability to a complex environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with a variety of players
• User focus / quality of service
• Pragmatism, analytical skills, rigour
• Good interpersonal skills, pedagogy and diplomacy

2 days teleworking per week.

We are committed to diversity, gender equality and the employment of people with disabilities.

This position is subject to specific eligibility conditions imposed by the Monegasque government, requiring the candidate to reside in the 06 department. Proof of residence may be requested as part of the recruitment process.