- Oversight of the Accounts Payable Shared Service Centers activities :
o Analyzes, and summarizes metric information to manage,
o Monitor the success of the organization
o Establish escalation processes,
o Define and Follow up of action plans,
o Review monthly KPIs, andChallenges the SSCs performances
- Improve efficiencies by developing and implementing better Business/SAP processes:
o Challenges the status quo on a daily basis to drive continuous improvement and automation,
o Represents the AP function in all projects which have a Procure To Pay impact
o Drives Cegedim potential change
o Lead productivity, automation and process improvement efforts in the payable area within the local teams and the SSCs,
o Works on the strategy to define the future of A/P organization for the US,
o Acts as a leader in change management for the AP function
Mid Term Priorities :
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- Define and Maintain SLA contracts between entities and SSC in close coordination with SSC Heads
- Organize a monthly review with CFD/RFD/SSC to monitor that activities within Service Level Agreements have been reached
- Follow:
up monthly KPI to monitor and improve SSC performance
- Perform monthly analysis of the rootcauses of deficient processes and propose corrective action plan to improve Data quality and process streamlining,
- Identify potential enhancements of Finance/Business processes to improve SSC efficiency and Finance accuracy.
- Promote necessary changes to the executive management and manage the change within the Transactional Finance SSC
- Provide guidance to SSC Heads, Country and Regional FD and BUs on how to best integrate businesses and companies from a processes and /organization perspective,
- Perform cost:
benefit analysis and benchmark versus best practices on the market to ensure the appropriate staffing and organisation of SSC ,
- Prepare, in close coordination with SSC and iTeam, yearly roadmap for continuous improvement with budget proposals according to strategic priorities and planned initiatives,
- Ensure smooth and active communication between the Transactional Finance SSC regarding new projects, new functionalities, and new tools,
- Promote Finance Transactional Target Operating Model and support SSC managers in streamlining their organization,
- Propose development of global new e.training modules or adaptations of existing e:
learning modules in order to maintain and improve end users knowledge,
- Contribute to Finance processes improvement to fit Arkema organization and ensure access control to the system (Business roles, approval processes, review..
) to make sure it remains compliant with the Group SOD risk policy,
- Ensure smooth evolutions of new tools and of its impact on SSC processes
- Analyze with BPO any new regulations impacting Finance processes and initiate necessary actions in coordination with FT SSC, BPO and iTeam to meet compliance requirements in the deadline.
minimum business school degree and more than 10 years Finance background.
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Strong knowledge in Finance with a special interest in process, organization and systems
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Experience with international SSC is a plus
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Capacities :
organization, analytical insight, leadership and innovation capacities, sense of priority, ability to work in a fast paced and multi cultural and multi project environment.
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