Job Description

The role will actively participate & support various global finance process/controls improvement and financial systems transformation projects. The role offers a competitive salary & benefits along with a hybrid working pattern, this is an immediate start so candidates with a short notice period is vital.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the project scope, schedule, deliverables; and working closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations
• Reporting, analyzing, and resolving issues related to the implementation, stakeholders, and project operations that may impact service quality; ensuring that stakeholders’ questions and problems are resolved properly and quickly
• Leverages finance process and technology best practices; partnering with finance organizations as well as various corporate functions (HR, Procurement, Legal) to support and improve existing business processes
• Drives simplification and standardization strategies across brands and countries
• Works to elicit high-level requirements and capture business needs through dialogue with business partners and key stakeholders
• Supports applications and solutions delivery by participating in design reviews and walk-throughs to communicate requirements and validate proposed solutions
• Performs impact analysis and supports application testing, implementation, and training activities throughout the process
• Develop standard work to support the ERP Implementation
• Supports International Finance ERP related business process/activities
• Ensure quality data for conversion
• Identifies data quality issues and works to resolve through best practice strategies
• Monitor performance of project tasks
• Document existing processes and drive consistency across entities through policy implementation
• Access, communicate and manage risks of our entities
• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time
• Anticipate issues or conditions that may impact the original estimate or project budget
• Prepare Project Activity reports in a timely manner
• Compile meeting minutes and project deliverables

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or qualified by experience
• 8+ years of experience with increasing responsibility in a financial role with systems implementation experience
• Must possess expert knowledge of financial processes and controls
• Prior experience with Oracle ERP Implementations
• Strong project management experience with a PMP preferred
• Experience in leveraging technology to improve finance processes
• Process-oriented with the ability to structure processes and related data across brands and countries
• Experience in defining, scoping, and managing process initiatives
• Ability to gather, structure and analyze data from multiple data sources
• Must possess operational accounting experience
• Ability to communicate/present to management
• Ability to play both a strategic and tactical role as a leader and demonstrate an ownership mentality
• Strong initiative-taker with a resilient, solution minded approach to complex problems
• Ability to partners with others to simplify complex processes, break down barriers and incorporate the ideas of others
• Demonstrated experience in the software development lifecycle