Job Description Summary

What impact you’ll make:

As a member of the Gas Power Supply Chain Operations Finance team, the Inventory Team Leader is the key finance partner across gas, steam, generator, heat recovery steam generator (HRSG), repairs value streams and functions. This role is responsible for leading inventory related financial processes, ensuring financial statements integrity by having key controls in place, providing supplemental data for internal and external reporting, driving improvements and standardization to core finance processes enabling efficiencies to downstream operating partners.
This role will partner heavily with the site finance leaders, Technical Controllers, Data & Analytics COE and operations.

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What you’ll do

• Subject matter expert (SME) in key supply chain and financial processes, including inventory revaluation, standard costing, financial closing & reporting.

• Lead a team of analysts to execute monthly closing activities to ensure compliance to USGAAP and Statutory requirements, communicate inventory monthly results to key internal stakeholders.

• Initiate, sponsor and lead projects with global impact and cross functional involvement to improve reporting accuracy, efficiency and controls around factory and services warehouse inventory, inventory turns, and inventory aging & obsolescent risks.  Present progress and results to senior finance leaders, leads and supports change management.

• Lead and supervise Obsolescence Inventory and FIFO revaluation planning, pacing, present overall results to Supply Chain Operations Finance and Manufacturing Finance leader.

• Cooperate with technical controllership and sites to enhance key controls, roles & responsibilities, standardize and automate reports around monthly actuals, physical inventory counts, cycle counts, slow moving/obsolescent inventory, and FIFO 

• Partner with key stakeholders to develop harmonized standard global operating procedures in complex matrixed, operating environment 

• Communicate and align global calendar to inventory and standard costing rhythms across GSC Finance and Supply Chain Operations Finance teams (annual PIs, budget, etc) 

• Supervise annual Physical Inventory Stocktake process, act as an escalation point for team members and focal point towards External auditors, ensure audit support documents are made available in time and in required quality by the team, able to explain process and results to auditors together with team members.

• Effectively communicates current state and future state processes & controls, develop roadmap and execute roadmap actions to align system/process differences across global supply chain to drive harmonized global standard work.
   

What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business or Finance / equivalent knowledge or experience

• Major relevant experience in the field of finance 

• People leadership experience

• Knowledge of accounting policies and practices, including US GAAP and inventory 

• Prior knowledge of manufacturing system ERPs (i.e. SAP, Oracle, BAAN) and with digital and automation tools such as Tableau, RPA 

• Fluent English knowledge is essential 

What will make you stand out

• Demonstrated domain expertise in supply chain finance, controllership

• Strong interpersonal, leadership, problem-solving skills and communication skills 

• Established project management skills, including relevant experience leading complex initiatives cross functionally 

• Embrace GE Vernova Way, driving innovation, serving customers, embracing LEAN, winning as one team, and accountable to deliver  

Additional Notes:

• Successful applicant will be legally eligible to enter into an employment relationship under the laws of Hungary

• This is a hybrid role with 2- 3 days in the office.
• Willingness to travel up to 15%

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