Business Systems Manager, 3 month contract, immediate start, fully remote My client is a software company delivering software applications into the healthcare, food & beverage and other sectors. We need a Business Systems Manager to drive the scoping and prioritisation of an IT project portfolio of enterprise business systems for internal use, which include Netsuite for finance and ServiceNow. The role is advisory and strategic, detailed project planning and execution are out of scope. Scope of Work: * Stakeholder Engagement * Proactively identify and reach out to key business stakeholders, including the SLT to gather insights on current system challenges and business needs * Act as a self-starter, independently driving engagement activities and ensuring comprehensive input from across the organisation * Project Scoping * Translate business pain points and requests into high-level project scopes * Document scope summaries for each proposed initiative, including objectives, expected outcomes, and dependencies * Recommend projects that haven’t currently been captured * Timeline Estimation * Provide high-level delivery timelines for each scoped project. * Identify quick wins, medium-term initiatives, and long-term strategic projects * Portfolio Prioritisation Support * Evaluate each proposed project using a 7 point Project Prioritisation Matrix. Use this scoring to support the development of a prioritised roadmap for the next 2 years Requirements: * Worked as a internal business systems owner within a software company or similar role * Worked with Netsuite and ServiceNow (From a business application ownership point of view) * Ideally from a finance background or have an appreciation for finance and finance applications * Experience with the types of projects you would expect to find within a commercial software company (finance and finance integration, travel and expenses, cpq, marketing, resource management tools) * Familiar with Prince2, Agile and Lean (not Six Sigma) * Familar with Project, or Portfolio Offices * Ability to work alone, self-starter * Able to communicate effectively with the SLT and challenge existing assumptions