Process Excellence Lead (PEL) Travel & Expense

Every minute of every day, Smiths Detections threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place.

Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five RD centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

In order to make Smiths Group and its employees more productive, Finance is continually looking at ways to standardize and automate business processes with end to end integrated business processes in a shared service environment

Smiths Group has a number of functions where it operates a process excellence model at a Group level in a shared service environment. This model seeks to identify leading practice and share it and apply it amongst the Divisions which can range from training and guidance through to common and codified processes and systems depending upon the function and area of business. Finance Excellence partners with the Exec level sponsors of these Excellence Programmes and their teams to identify, scope, shape and build the processes and solutions that will support their agendas, ensuring that the solutions will be appropriate and useful to the Divisions that will use them. Currently there are activities in Finance (TE, Accounts Payable), HR and Operations.

The Process Excellence Lead role is responsible to support the GPO Controls and Compliance to define, align and govern an end to end global process. This includes defining policies, processes, desktop procedures, controls, process performance measures, roles responsibilities, and training material. The PEL is key in support the GPO in determining the data and automation roadmap and will act in conjunction with a solution owner of the key technologies that support this process in BIS. The role holder should also drive the governance of this process and execute upon it.

This role will work with multiple groups of stakeholders, Finance Excellence and business counterparts and 3rd parties to shape, deliver and sustain the agenda.

The Process Excellence lead will report to the Global Process Manager Finance as part of the GPO organization

SPECIFIC DUTIES, ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

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