Manager Finance Transformation

About the role:
As the Manager Finance Transformation, you will lead and manage the transformation of 2-3 finance processes such as Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Sales to Cash, Direct Operating Costs, FP&A, Treasury, Governance Risk and Compliance, Tax, etc. You will utilize innovative technology solutions to design and implement new ways of working. Acting as a subject matter expert and a key member of the leadership team, you will redefine and transform complex change initiatives within the finance function, striving for operational excellence, efficiency, and strategic alignment with organizational goals and objectives.

Key Responsibilities:
Strategic

• Shape and execute finance transformation strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline financial processes, implement cutting-edge technologies, and enhance financial reporting and analysis.
• Lead, optimize, and contribute to the future integration of acquired businesses into the Group's financial systems & infrastructure across multiple or high complexity finance streams.
• Scope, design, implement, test, and manage all phases of finance transformation projects, including managing resources and the project budget.
• Define the Finance Target Operating Model alongside the Head of Finance Transformation and Project Director, contributing to the Finance Transformation Agenda.
• Lead change management efforts, ensuring effective communication, stakeholder engagement, and the establishment of new ways of working within finance streams and across the organization.
• Own all post-transformation finance system solutions, processes, and applications.

Operational

• Manage transition activities including planning training, knowledge transfer, business cut-over strategies, business readiness criteria, and providing post Go-Live support.
• Partner with the Group Digital workstream to ensure finance needs are clearly understood and met.
• Mitigate risks and exposures in the current system and application support.
• Document and validate current processes/process flow charts, identifying opportunities for automation, standardization, and process streamlining across the back-office organization.
• Own the business process designs for the assigned finance streams, adhering to key design principles and contributing to the ERP in project planning, risk identification, and mitigation.
• Serve as a process expert in assigned finance processes, understanding the current state, defining the future state, and contributing to implementation strategies to achieve project goals.
• Manage project economics, delivery, and program interdependencies, while maintaining stakeholder expectations and relationships, facilitating, tracking, and monitoring issues and resolution, and managing change requests.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, standards, and policies while monitoring operations integrity.
• Manage data management activities including cleaning, standardizing, governing, and migrating to new systems.
• Achieve performance metrics, KPIs, and objectives to ensure the effectiveness and success of initiatives.
• Manage training and change management activities for assigned finance business processes, ensuring smooth transitions to new ways of working.
• Support the design and development of automated consolidated financial reporting from a single source of truth, along with appropriate insights.
• Collaborate with all ERP and Non-ERP functional teams in process design, improvement, and management in accordance with product standards and industry best practices.
• Prepare and present progress updates to Steering Committees and Executive Committees, demonstrating excellent stakeholder management skills.

Be part of an extraordinary story
Your skills, imagination, and ambition are crucial. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You will find infinite opportunities to grow and address the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be part of our future and shape your own journey while being part of an international community.
Our best is yet to come. To us, impossible is merely a challenge. Join us in daring to achieve what has never been done before. Together, everything is possible.

About you:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with a minimum of 8 years of job-related experience.
• 8+ years of experience in business transformation and ERP implementation (Oracle/SAP).
• 4+ years of experience in process improvement, operational excellence, or related fields.
• 4+ years of experience in managing operational finance, covering areas such as Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Sales to Cash, Direct Operating Costs, FP&A, Treasury, Governance Risk and Compliance, Tax, etc.
• Proven experience in leading cross-functional process improvement projects.