Responsibilities:

Process

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

Operations support

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.

Have an understanding of transition roadmap, the own team’s transitions, and support the transition with IT Transition Team

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

Quality and legal compliance and controls

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

Stakeholder management

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

Expectations:

Bachelor's Degree in accounting (important for GL SME roles) or economic/business/IT studies (for all Finance SME roles) preferred, Master's Degree is a plus

4+ years of relevant experience

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in 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)

CIP experience and understanding are preferable

Share professional expertise in prioritization to team members

Problem solving

System thinking

Able to represent own team’s interest in global projects