Golden State Water Company is one of the largest investor-owned water utilities in the United States. We deliver quality, reliable water to more than 1 million people in over 80 communities throughout California. Golden State Water has been in business for more than 90 years because we put customers first.

Position Definition

The incumbent has the responsibility for providing enterprise-wide, strategic leadership and vision in the development and implementation of the Company's information technology solutions. Along with forecasting needs for applications support resources through coordination with the information technology team, helping the user community build the application expertise necessary to support current and future business functions, successfully implementing and managing project plans, and assisting in delivering the appropriate knowledge transfers and training activities. The Applications System Manager ensures readiness for change and accountability, as well as address support-related communication to the business organization.

Accountability

The incumbent will lead the organization to its greatest potential by ensuring compliance with applicable standards, laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and policies and procedures relative to information technology solutions. The individual in this position is accountable for building a culture of service among their IT Team by giving them the necessary training to provide a level of service that is in line with the strategic goals of the organization.

Summary Of Responsibilities

The Applications System Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing a team of Application and System Specialists to maintain continuous support on a 24x7 basis, with a focus on leadership, communication and business benefits. The incumbent must have the abilities to establish relationships, manage conflicts, analyze information, and communicate at any level of the company. The Applications System Manager provides management and guidance to the team, ensuring that quality and service standards are adhered to by routinely interfacing with the all business functions for all application support matters.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Develops, maintains, and provides status reports on support metrics for executive management and team members, in coordination with all IT support teams
Collaborates with the IT team to define and build standards and references, in regards to quality, performance and reusability of the developed solutions
Develops and ensures successful implementations and/or upgrades of enterprise resource planning system ("ERP") and ancillary systems by coordinating and partnering with business functional areas throughout the process, including business system implementation partner selection, business system deployment, testing, training and support, and process improvement initiatives
Develops and ensures successful implementations, upgrades, and support of enterprise systems by coordinating and partnering with business functional areas throughout the process, including business system implementation partner selection, business system deployment, testing, training and support, and process improvement initiatives
Responsible for the projects complete lifecycle from project initiation through implementation
Directs and coordinates business process analysis for efficiency improvements in the context of enterprise systems. Develops plans that encompass all required elements of new business processes. Documents and configures business system components to support new business processes
Coordinates the development of applications to meet business process requirements, employ accepted change management/pilot testing procedures and retrofit application modifications if needed
Directs the development of custom management reports to meet business performance analysis requirements
Oversees integrity of management reports and business system transactions by continuously monitoring data for validity and consistency
Oversees maintenance of user profiles and security for enterprise systems
Directs coordinates and/or performs the analysis, design, planning, configuration, and documentation required to deploy new ERP system modules to meet business needs
Directs and maintains system integrity within the deployment server and enterprise database server. Responsible for leading the planning, installation, testing, and deployment of package builds, service packs, release updates, software upgrade, and version upgrades; deployment of client software to workstations and servers
Responsible for the design, documentation and testing of disaster recovery solution for the application environments.
Oversees and reviews security architectural standards, database integrity, and proper testing procedures
Mentors and develops staff. Provides guidance and assistance to the team and supervises application support procedures and priorities
Provides user support; oversees and manages customer support issues, ensuring that 'trouble tickets' are resolved to customer satisfaction and key performance indicators; ensures plan and action items for better customer experience on solutions delivered
Ensures compliance of all company policies
Performs other duties as necessary to support Company objectives.
Other duties as assigned

Minimum Position Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Systems or related discipline.
Ten (10) years of ERP system (Oracle, PeopleSoft JD Edwards, or SAP) application implementation/support experience; preferably in JD Edwards/Oracle Enterprise One Experience
Experience managing other enterprise systems in support of business needs
Seven (7) years of project management experience
Five (5) years of supervisory experience
Excellent interpersonal, writing and communication skills.

QUALITIES OF A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS SYSTEM MANAGER IN THIS POSITION

Flexible, thoughtful, accountable, approachable and passionate about work
A strategic and visionary business partner who is willing to learn
Strong organizational, project planning and management stills
Collaborative business partner who can show business results
Excellent customer service support and interventions with a 'can-do' attitude

Other Required Skills

High degree of confidentiality required
Trustworthy; strong personal integrity; emotional maturity
Demonstrates strong level accountability and ownership
Executes with discipline and urgency
Demonstrated Impact and Influencing skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Collaborative/Team oriented
Exhibits professionalism with internal and external contacts
Organized with strong attention to detail and time management skills
Able to follow complex procedures and ensure accuracy in documentation and data
High degree of initiative; self-starter

NOTE: Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with special needs to perform the essential functions. Must be willing to travel up to 25% of the time

May include but not limited to standing, climbing, walking, lifting, bending, pulling and/or pushing, grasping, reaching, stooping and crouching, sitting, typing, walking, reading, writing, color determination, speaking and listening for extended periods of time.

Benefits

Our Company supports our employees with rich benefit programs and resources to help them thrive today and prepare for tomorrow. Benefit options include medical, dental, and vision plans with the Company currently paying 85% of the monthly premium for employees and their eligible dependents. We also offer paid vacation and sick time and twelve Company paid holidays per year. To help our employees plan for the future, we offer both a 401(k) retirement plan as well as a Defined Contribution Profit Sharing retirement plan. Additional benefits include life, AD&D, and LTD insurance as well as health savings account and flexible spending plans.

Compensation Information

The compensation range provided is in compliance with state specific laws.Multiple factors are used to determine the actual starting rate of pay for all of our positions, including specific skills, years of experience, education, certification(s), and other job related factors.

The responsibilities of this position will involve access to information that may be considered confidential, private and sensitive. Therefore, the individual filling this position will be required to both allow and pass a background check.

NOTE: Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with special needs to perform the essential functions.

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