Global Process Owner - Accounting & Close

The Global Process Owner (GPO) will own the end-to-end accounting and close (A&C) process across all business units, functions, and geographies within Wood. The GPO A&C reports directly to the Senior Vice President Global Finance Services and will be responsible for driving continuous improvement of effective and efficient A&C processes, whilst leveraging the right people, functional, operational, and technical resources to ensure the process delivers the quality outcomes required by Wood.

Accounting & Close process scope: Accounting, Close, Reconciliation

Primary functional relationships: Finance

Link to: GPO FP&A / Reporting

• Significant experience acting as a team player at executive levels to collaborate with business units and functional partners.
• Working knowledge of finance and/or accounting in terms of budgeting, cost management, financial accounting, treasury, risk management, etc.
• Current working knowledge and proactive in continuous learning of industry best practices and enabling technologies.
• Ability to communicate, build relationships, trust and rapport with senior functional leaders
• Significant experience in establishing and achieving challenging performance targets.
• Strong understanding of change management methodologies required to support large scale organizational change and transformation with a dynamic set of stakeholders.
• Strong networking skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Ability to deliver projects to the business and understand the support model required.
• Experience with functional operating models, key processes, reporting structures, legal entity structures and how these are enabled within the system set up .
• Experience with ERP systems (Oracle).
• A strong systems design thinking, focused on user-centric design orientation, with an understanding of process integration across multiple complex systems.
• Ability to develop, maintain key policies associated with the end-to-end process and a holistic understanding of the business at process level.

Personal attributes:

• Ability to cope with ambiguity and highly resilient when met with resistance.
• Creative in the achievement of stretching objectives; does not accept failure easily.
• Build robust capability and appropriate succession and development.
• Action and outcome oriented.
• Strong business acumen.
• High degree of process and functional knowledge.
• Systematic thinking.
• Strategic thinker and detail oriented.
• Leads by example, displaying the Company s value and behaviors.
• Connect and establish effective, cross-cultural working relationships with all levels of the organization and externally.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm, energy and compassion in order to galvanise and motivate a team.
• Balance humility and self-confidence.
• Anticipate the environment, be forward thinking and able to see the big picture .
• Arbitrate on fundamental differences between parties.
• Generate trust and credibility with audiences through continuous, open and consistent communication.
• Champion change initiatives, focused on improving quality and effectiveness.
• Cultural awareness & sensitivity.
• Work effectively across different cultures, driving a global mind-set.
• Foster a customer-focused climate that delivers on expectations and strengthens relationship.

• Understands business functional system challenges and issues, acting as a change agent garnering trust, respect and support.
• Continuously drives improvement through the end-to-end process by collaborating across business units, functions, and geographies considering stakeholders needs.
• Bridges the gap between business and process and technology.
• Sets the strategic agenda for the process within Wood to create transformational change.
• Engages business focal points, functional focal points, and geographical leaders for resource to drive cost benefit and meaningful capability improvements.
• Performance enabler of successful transformation, driving deployment of next generation systems and disruptive technologies.
• Learns from industry leaders to bring best practice and emerging digital capabilities to the end-to-end process.
• Aligns the organisation and cultivates followership on best practice to drive step changes in capability and cost.
• Matures existing best practice within the end-to-end process and embeds that across the business.
• Owns associated standard global processes as well as any local process requirements within the respective workstream, including identification of any policy / control impacts which result.
• Aligns Wood on process metrics and reporting.
• Identifies and manages business risks and ensures business continuity.
• Ensures compliance against the set process, feeding into regular assurance feedback.
• Point of escalation for businesses, functions and geographies for concerns and issues within accountable end-to-end process.
• Reinforces Wood culture and brand.