Lease Purchase System PM

United Global Technologies

Lease Purchase System PM

Houston, TX
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Transformation PM - Architecture & migration leadership

     

    What is the LPS system?
    Lease Purchase System (LPS) is a core, legacy trading system used primarily in US Products / Crude contexts to manage lease-based purchases and related financial processing.
    From the enterprise documentation:
    LPS is the system of record for managing Shell's US lease purchases, handling commercial, contractual, and financial aspects of leased supply

    What LPS actually does (business-wise)
    LPS supports high-value, high-volume commercial activity, including:
    Deal and contract entry for lease-based purchases
    Contract generation and maintenance
    Pricing and run-ticket processing
    Division-of-interest (DOI) master data management
    Payments and reporting, including 1099 tax reporting
    SOX-critical controls around contract and payment data
    LPS is:
    A large IBM mainframe application (z/OS)
    Written mainly in COBOL/TELON, with DB2 and VSAM
    ~5 million lines of code
    Integrated with Endur, MCC, and other downstream systems
    Costly to run and increasingly constrained by:
    Mainframe capacity limits
    Emulator and license costs
    Integration complexity
    Difficulty evolving logic (some logic has already "escaped" into Access / spreadsheets)

    Roles and Responsibilities:
    Agree and deliver programs, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within Shell's standards and controls framework. Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments. Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action. Engage internal and external stakeholders e.g., users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products, services and changes. Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behavior changes and maximize benefits. Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are timely and effective. Mobilize and lead teams with a mixture of staff and suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team. Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes. Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments. Understand, assess and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering project and business constraints. Assess program risks and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and benefit, managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams. Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business as usual. Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered.

    Mandatory skills:
    Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50. Agile & waterfall methodology. Domain knowledge e.g., Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital. leadership, communication and resilience. stakeholder management, and enabling value creation.

    Optional skills:
    Business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling