Senior Application Carve-out Lead / Specialist

Role: Senior Application Carve-out Lead / Specialist

Responsibilities: Take end-to-end ownership of assigned application carve-out activities. Establish and maintain the application-level carve-out plan, activities, dependencies, and readiness. Identify dependencies related to applications, integrations, data, environments, users/access, infrastructure, vendors, and other solutions. Coordinate target environment and solution setup activities with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Drive technical and functional separation activities through testing, cutover, and validation. Coordinate vendors and other technical resources required to complete the separation. Proactively identify gaps, risks, issues, and required decisions. Ensure that required technical and operational documentation is created and maintained. Support solution handover and operational readiness after separation. Escalate to the Service Manager primarily when business/application-specific decisions, prioritization, or escalation are required.

Scope: Dedicated demerger resources supporting application portfolios currently managed by IT Service Managers. Resource 1 - Support for Group Finance applications (HFM, Hyperion, IPM, Anaplan, Tagetik, Workiva). Resource 2 - Support for project FX hedging and calculation application (PROFIT).

Requirements: Strong experience in enterprise application lifecycle, implementation, migration, or separation activities. Previous experience in IT carve-outs, demergers, M&A integrations, or comparable application transformation programs is strongly preferred. Good understanding of enterprise applications and their dependencies, including integrations, data flows, identity/access, environments, and vendors. Experience in planning and executing testing, deployment, cutover, and validation activities. Ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, application owners, vendors, and cross-functional IT teams in an international environment. Strong documentation and structured problem-solving capabilities. Self-driven, proactive, and hands-on way of working. Ability to independently structure ambiguous topics and drive them towards resolution. Fluent written and spoken English.

Key Success Criterion: The resource must be capable of independently taking ownership of an application/workstream and driving the carve-out forward without requiring continuous operational steering from the Service Manager.