Process Excellence Lead RTR

The Process Excellence Lead role is responsible to support the GPO Record to Report 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.

Duties & Responsibilities

• End to End Process Definition: Drive the record to report scope and end to end processes, identifying controls, documenting standards and integration and drive good/best practice. These specific to Record to Report processes.
• Business Engagement: Engaging key stakeholders who are responsible for and are customers of the process today to understand pain points, areas of improvement etc. and analysis.
• Analysis : Capability to extract, analyse process and other data metrics required to support the definition of the end-to-end process.
• Lean Process Improvement: Support the GPO in analysing the current processes and identify ways to improve and streamline the process.
• Digital Experience: Support the GPO in pro-actively seeking the possibilities t automate the processes in the order to enhance the users experience, advance self-service capability and seek or support the process efficiency.
• Documentation and Standards: responsible for creation and maintenance of Process documentation, policies, controls, desktop procedures.
• Implementation: Supports and enables the implementation of the consistent processes, drawing on the network of divisional process leads to execute. Support the GPO in setting the standards as well as the support measures that will monitor sustain process use and drive continuous experience.
• Governance: Drives the compliance and right measures, metrics and review forums to manage the ongoing performance of the process. Implement processes and controls to manage change requests. Identify and propose corrective action to resolve divergences to standard process.

The Individual

• Bachelor/masters with 5 years of Finance experience in global business combination of experience within Shared Services model and general accounting and finance in large multi-site businesses.
• Experience in finance and general accounting with proven team, leadership and change management skills and ability to engage senior stakeholders, drive change and drive adoption of new policies, processes and relate governance
• Understanding of Advanced Finance Process across Finance, credit control and banking and controls. Previous involvement in ERP implementation Programmes an advantage.
• Strong experience in Record to Report/RTR
• Experience in SAP R3, Project management, Visio, PowerPoint and standard MS Office products.
• Strong experience of process documentation and preparing process workflows, leadership, change management, coaching, interpersonal
• Brings a broad range of inputs together, both internal and external, to provoke and promote practical and effective solutions to business problems. Actively uses their external network as well as gaining a detailed understanding of the nuances of their businesses affect results.
• The candidate will be a strong advocate for change and is able to be compelling new direction, whether or not they originated it. Sets clear targets in line with a larger change effort to focus people on accomplishing the change. Engages others internally and externally by making the case for change and explaining their role in it. Helps people come to terms with the need for change.
  
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