Director, Finance Business Excellence & Global Process Ownership

SES

Job

In this role, you will lead global finance transformation, standardize processes, and drive automation, collaborating closely with various teams to enhance efficiency and internal controls.

Job summary

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Your role in the team

  • The incumbent leads the global finance transformation agenda by standardizing processes and driving process excellence.
  • Er/Sie vertritt die Finanzabteilung und arbeitet mit dem SVP, Global Finance Transformation & Business Services, an Finanzinitiativen zur Verbesserung der Finanzprozesse.
  • He/She works with onshore business owners to establish the Romania nearshore center in partnership with the onshore business owners and Chennai Shared Finance Business Center.
  • Er/Sie koordiniert Aktivitäten im Bereich Governance, SOX-Ausrichtung, Servicebereitstellung und kontinuierliche Verbesserung.
  • He/she also collaborates with ERP and IT teams to deploy automation, workflow, and AI-enabled solutions that enhance productivity, internal controls, employee experience, and decision support.
  • Leads the finance business excellence strategy.
  • Makes continuous decisions as the organization evolves with new service/business lines.
  • Evaluates: what remains local, what processes move to FSS offshore/nearshore, and what roles would be best suited for nearshore in Romania or should be outsourced.
  • Führen Sie die globale Prozessstandardisierung und Prozessexzellenz voran.
  • Responsible for global process governance for: PTP, OTC, T&E, FA and R2R in the future.
  • Initial process standardization could be in areas such as credit and collections, capital budgeting, approval and process, and specific items noted in the recent Procurement process review.
  • Works with onshore business leaders and Director of Finance SSC to evaluate additional finance areas to offshore.
  • In Automation & AI Strategy prioritizes use cases, defines standards and is responsible to implement and scale best practices globally.
  • Support when needed compliance requirements (E Invoicing, EU requirements, etc) Fin (migration, SOX and governance.
  • Develop KPIs such as close-cycle efficiency, working capital process effectiveness and specific WC related KPIs, touchless processing rates, etc.
  • Also develops change management and finance talent.
  • Define enterprise-wide finance standards, governance principles and common process requirements applicable to the Factory, MeoSphere and IRIS², in partnership with the respective business-unit finance teams.
  • Coordinate the integration of new business requirements into SES-wide finance processes, systems, data and reporting architecture, without assuming operational finance ownership.
  • Provide transformation and implementation support to business-unit finance teams, including process design, automation, shared-services integration and change management.
  • Facilitate alignment across Business Finance, Accounting & Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, IT and shared services on cross-functional dependencies and common solutions.
  • Monitor finance-readiness roadmaps, implementation milestones and enterprise-level risks, while business-unit finance leaders remain accountable for financial performance, planning, reporting, accounting execution and decision support.

Our expectations of you

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting or Business (MBA/CPA preferred)

Qualifications

  • Strategic Leadership: Defines and communicates a clear vision, aligns resources to business priorities, and makes decisions that support long-term organizational objectives.
  • Stakeholder Management: Builds trusted relationships across functions and levels, effectively influences key stakeholders, and balances diverse interests to achieve business outcomes.
  • Finance Transformation: Leads finance transformation initiatives that enhance efficiency, strengthen controls, improve business insights, and support organizational growth.
  • Continuous Improvement (Lean/Six Sigma Mindset): Drives operational excellence by identifying inefficiencies, simplifying processes, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making.
  • ERP Systems Expertise: Leverages strong knowledge of ERP platforms to optimize finance processes, improve data integrity, and support system implementation and enhancement initiatives.
  • Change Leadership: Successfully leads teams through change by creating alignment, managing stakeholder impact, and ensuring the sustainable adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.

Experience

  • 10+ years in finance transformation/shared services/process excellence with global leadership experience
  • Experience working with ERP migrations, offshoring, and SOX-enabled environments preferred

What we offer

  • Fluency in English

Benefits

Health, fitness & fun

Food & drink

Work-Life-Integration

Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Betzdorf
    57518 Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

About your employer

As the world's leading provider of digital price tags, the SES-imagotag Group supports leading retailers worldwide in digitizing their processes. 200 retail chains in more than 60 countries trust our 370 specialists for their digital solution expertise.

Company size
1-49 Employees
Language
English
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
Industry
Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Director, Finance Business Excellence & Global Process Ownership

SES