Jim Magnotta

Vice President Enterprise Applications @Irvine Company

Irvine, CA, US

Executive leader driving enterprise transformation across IT and business operations. Liaison to Financial Services, HR, Tax, SP & A, and Corporate Finance, delivering impactful strategies to enhance performance, reduce costs, and elevate user experience•Department Optimization: Identified associates\' strengths, weaknesses, and career aspirations, providing growth opportunities aligned with organizational needs•Financial Management: Managed the annual planning process for the department including business cases development, fully loaded resource and financials plans•Procurement Management: Managed multiple RFP processes, vendor evaluation, and selection for software and services. Leveraged custom scoring process to provide transparency during the process. •Automated onboarding & off boarding by standardizing roles via ServiceNow and SuccessFactors, improving employee experience and increasing efficiency•SAP Roadmap & Strategy: Led SAP roadmap planning for 10-year strategy, enabling S/4HANA migration and future-state architecture•Vendor Relationship Management: Managed vendor relationships, including SAP, Kyriba Smartsheet, LumApps, WalkMe, and Monday.com, developing deep partnerships and driving process and fiscal optimization•Headcount Planning: Partnered with our HR and Finance team to develop business requirements and then negotiated a multiyear SAP (SAP Analytics Cloud) SAC deal including price protection so we can lock in our cost and retire our BPC solution and migrate to SAC•Treasury Transformation: Implemented Kyriba as the Treasury Management platform, retiring a legacy custom application and improving our ability to forecast daily cash•eProcurement: Managed the selection, budget and implementation of Coupa as our eProcurement solution for the IT perspective. This was a transformational project for the organization retiring multiple applications and providing world class business process in Sourcing, Procurement and Invoicing.