Responsibilities: 

• Map the current process landscape under own functional responsibility and identify process improvements and automation ideas.

• Work together with operational manager, Global Process Owner, and other stakeholders on automation and standardization initiatives.

• Have an understanding of partner functions’ processes and support own operation team in case of process clarification, identifying interconnections and improvement opportunities 

• Manage process documentation, stakeholder mapping, and required change management with those impacted by any changes.

• Work together on Continuous Improvement Projects/Processes (CIP) initiatives and map impact on own processes. Channel impacts to partner functions.

• Continuous process improvement activity should focus mostly on the main ERP systems.

• Working with BSC trainer, contribute to and actively support the development of training plans for employees within responsible departments

• Support the team with process explanation/training where needed.

• Knowledge management, updating knowledge base for own function

• Support the leader to build a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement

• Have an end to end understanding on the applicable finance processes within the various ERP landscape.

• Support all department employees with complicated requests as they work cross-functionally with legacy ERPs of partner functions to assure effective end-to-end processes.

• Have an understanding on the current landscape from Finance process perspective as well as on the high-level IT landscape design in the background.

• Understand transition roadmap, the own team’s transitions, and support the transition.

• Meet agreed upon timelines to transition sites into the BSC as well as SAP S/4 Hana implementation schedule as published by the FLS IT team. 

• Perform other ad-hoc tasks defined by the direct operational leader and Global Process Owner

• Understand and provide guidance on all issues that arise as a result of daily system or process problems; communicate and escalate as necessary to assure issue resolution and in effort to engage management in knowledge of significant issues impacting processes.

• Plan and manage own workload to meet all deadlines.

• Participate and lead projects as required.

• Handle and escalate process performance issues and errors occurred.

• Ensure compliance with FLS policies, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local statutory laws and regulations and that business is conducted within FLS ethical code of business conduct.

• Ensure compliance with FLS policies, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as defined by FLS, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local site financial statutory laws and regulations

• Business processes developed and used in own function shall be in line with FLS ethical code of business conduct 

• Provide advice to Supervisor(s) as needed and ensure governance and internal control standards are embedded in the end to end processes and operations.

• Demonstrate thorough understanding of financial controls for local and SOX requirements.

• Implement, and maintain effective internal controls for own area

• Develop standard reports for own area that best represent own team’s performance

• Coordinate reporting activities with other partner functions

• Work together with the multiple Project team internal and external to represent the team’s interest and direction. 

• Be own team’s representative related to any Project which effects on the departmental operation (IT, SC, Global finance, etc.)

• Maintain a functional and healthy relationship with site stakeholders impacting own team’s processes and finance.

• Maintain functional and healthy relationship with FLS transformation and transition teams as site processes are transitioned to the BSC.

• Maintain functional and healthy relationship with the IT technical teams supporting the implementation of SAP S/4 Hana. 

• Work in collaboration with the Supervisor(s) and other stakeholders on CIP projects 

Requirements:

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in imrpovement for Accounts Payable processes

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting (important for GL SME roles) or economic/business/IT studies (for all Finance SME roles)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Spanish and English

• Confident user of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

• Solid knowledge and experience using ERP systems: Oracle or SAP required, other ERP system is an advantage

• Establish and maintain effective work relationships with stakeholders

• Proactively recognize and resolve issues

• Ability to cope with and drive process changes

• Support the team with professional training if needed

• Continuous improvement mindset (LEAN Six Sigma is an advantage)

• Share professional expertise in prioritization to team members 

• Problem solving

• System thinking

• Able to represent own team’s interest in global projects

Preferred:

• Master's Degree

• CIP experience and understanding