Record To Report - Global Process Owner

Location

Bangalore | India

Job description

• Own the design of global standards for RTR processes, including the technology applications deployed to support these.
• Partner with key stakeholders to define design principles, including policy and control requirements.
• Drive the adoption of these standards across Finance Services and markets to enable increased process efficiency and effectiveness.
• Support the Group Finance Controller in the management of RTR focused steering forums.
• Develop and monitor process KPIs to identify adoption gaps, opportunities for improvement and further operational value.
• Deliver process improvements to the global template to support changing business requirements.
• Own the reporting catalogue for the processes in scope.
• Support target system architecture ( TSA ) deployment programmes, through business readiness activities, training delivery and testing support. Drive key decisions to eliminate deviations outside those potentially needed to comply with tax, legal or statutory requirements.
• Support the achievement of the Finance Operating Model, especially in relation to controllership, reporting, and offshoring.
• Own all process documentation (including taxonomy and training materials) relating to the template.
• Enable process communities to drive consistency and ensure shared knowledge across Finance Services centres and markets.
• Actively support the achievement of the business benefits sought by the target systems architecture being deployed.

Key Personal Attributes

• Strategic focus on the development of finance global standards.
• Strong relationship management and influencing skills across various levels of the organisation.
• Competent in facilitating solution based working sessions to drive & deliver processes that are future proof, providing a real focus on pragmatic value-added activities.
• Effective communication skills (written / oral). Attention to detail yet able to articulate key messages to senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity and able to adapt to change. Able to think creatively to drive out simple solutions to complex problems.
• Exposure to project-based, creative, professional, or marketing services industry a bonus.
• Drive high levels of team engagement through a collaborative and empowering leadership approach, living the dentsu values.

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Accounting qualification essential
• Clear experience in leading process improvement projects, as well as large scale ERP implementations and associated business transformation.
• Solid experience with process re-engineering within a disperse organisation, including shared service environments, often in a matrix organization undergoing significant change.
• Proven experience of project management skills.
• Fluent English language skills, other languages an advantage but not pre-requisite.

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