Finance Manager, Finance Operations Business Partnering, FinOps BP

Description

The Finance Operations Business Partnering (BP) team is seeking a Finance Manager (m/f/d) who will be a key member of the worldwide Retail BP team. This individual will be located in Munich or London and the primary business support function to support EU Vendor Success Program, and drive global initiatives to enhance the way we operate procure-to-pay (P2P) and order-to-cash (O2C) processes.

Our team is focused on connecting local FinOps expertise with regional business, finance and global technology teams to develop world-class solutions for internal and external customers. We advocate for global improvements through technology and partnering with various teams to define, design, and prioritize those enhancements in the billing, collection, invoice ingestion, payment, and dispute resolution processes with vendors.

This position requires the candidate to work with business partners to drive defect reduction, controllership, and improve free cash flow and identify tools/systems improvement opportunities, validate the improvement efforts, and drive the implementation of transformation initiatives.

You will be a key player on a team comprised of high-performing operations excellence, and finance professionals. Your role will be to drive initiatives that improve ongoing operational efficiency, and free cash flow through automation, upstream defect reduction, and end-to-end process improvement.

Key job responsibilities

• Own and manage the business relationship, support, and influence decision-making impacting financial operations processes, and systems.

• Lead the prioritization of objectives, and organizational development to support rapid growth and anticipate changes.

• Work cross-organizationally, and functionally to identify key opportunities in processes, technology, and human interfaces. Develop and implement plans to capitalize on those opportunities, and measure and monitor success and impacts.

• Drive program objectives by providing program management to define project plans, manage implementation activities, and develop processes, documentation, and communications for program/process rollout, and ongoing support.

• Scale services and tools by designing processes, and procedures that can grow with the business’s increase in volume, complexity, and global geographic dispersion.

• Collaborate, and build relationships with system and business owners globally to ensure process excellence, and the highest degree of controllership.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, information technology or equivalent

• Experience in accounts receivable or account payable

• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis

• Experience communicating results to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA

• Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan

• Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)

• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results

• Experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects

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