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Automation Team Lead
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Location
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Dublin, Ireland
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Salary
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Unspecified
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Posted
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19 Feb 2021
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Closes
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19 Mar 2021
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Ref
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67133BR
Automation Team Lead
Purpose of role
The Automation Team Lead will be responsible for leading a team tasked with identifying automation process candidates, requirements gathering, developing Automation workflows and providing support to production workflows across a range of new and emerging technologies. The Automation Team Lead will be required to combine the day-to-day co-ordination of all automation activities with hands-on input, as required
Reports to
Finance Transformation Manager
Key Responsibilities
Supporting the creation and evolution of the Primark Finance RPA Delivery FrameworkMaintain backlog; Create and deliver Sprint plans and project reportingEvaluating and validating business casesDefine and monitor test scenario outcomesPrioritising new process automation candidates based on the feasibility and estimated development effort of each one;Understand the risks, assumptions, and dependencies associated with the process;Reviewing and Approving documented business processes and defined acceptance criteria required for an Automation program;Reviewing and Approving user acceptance test (UAT) documents, identifying all the process scenarios and exceptions and their expected outcomes;Leading the support to the Finance Operations Team and stakeholders across Finance during the UAT and rollout phases;Review workflows developed by others to ensure compliance with internal control/security / audit requirements;An escalation point for maintenance to production workflows by ensuring second level support for workflow incidents; investigate reported errors, agree on error severity and propose resolution;For workflow support tasks, respect SLAs agreed with business for workflow downtime;Report issues to third level support (automation vendor and/or internal Technology support teams) if incidents cannot be solved by the internal team; ensure development fix, unit testing, and production deployment preparation;Configure enhancements /change requests to already automated processesAct as a central point of knowledge and control for business processes, communicating with the Global Process Owners and the Business Teams to answer any queries that arise during the development and testing of an automated solution. Knowledge, skills and experience
Track record in leading/mentoring individuals on development and delivery disciplinesGood oral presentation skills with the ability to present non-technical details to a technical audience;Good written skills with the ability to produce clear and concise documentation;Good inter-personal skills, communicating well with process SMEs, business process owners, and other members of the Automation team;A self-starter who delivers high quality work and can adapt to challenges, either individually or as part of a teamRequirements gathering skills, able to capture business processes using both existing process documentation and process walkthroughs with the staff performing the process;Ability to both understand a business process from a workflow diagram and to conceptualize it as an automated solution;Knowledge of business process re-engineering. Successful candidates will meet the following criteria
At least 3 years in a team coordination roleKnowledge of Business/System Analysis in a structured environmentExperience designing, documenting and developing workflows using Automation Anywhere as a certified developer is essentialExperience designing, documenting and developing workflows using Alteryx would be an advantageFinance background and/or a knowledge of industry-leading ERPs (Oracle Financials etc) would be an advantageExperience with Agile Development and Project Management For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.
