Revenue Accounting Process Manager

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PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
Process Management is a Corporate Process and IT (CPIT) function-oriented position dedicated to defining innovative process improvements with the key finance functions aligned with SAP’s business strategy and goals leveraging technology.

CPIT’s goal is to operate an effective and efficient GFA service portfolio and delivery model that both aligns business priorities and secures high customer satisfaction as well as significantly increases the level of standardization & automation of our end-to-end processes, ensuring our operational success. 

The Revenue Accounting Process Manager will support the realisation of this goal, by driving standardization, simplification, and automation across the R2R and Revenue Recognition portfolio, further developing flexible core finance processes through alignment with upstream and downstream process teams, whilst significantly decreasing manual touch points in high volume processes. Business Process Intelligence is one of the newest technologies to be used by Process Management to best support this. 

By implementing our latest solutions and technologies together with the GFA COO Swarm Organization the team will support our goals of scalability and efficiency without compromising on quality, GAAP, and SOX compliance, moving towards a fully automated, real-time closing process. 

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Have the mindset for a “next generation R2R”, challenging status quo, organizational setup, and today’s delivery models. The mindset to “Start doing things differently!”
• Prioritise requirements to ensure alignment with GFA’s goals and objectives whilst delivering maximum benefit to R2R and Rev Rec customers and end-users using agile methodologies.
• Elaborate and drive process simplification, standardization, and automation possibilities and to closely collaborate with CFR, GFSS R2R, Core Finance IT, SWARM teams and SOX to deliver on these requirements.
• Together with the R2R organization ensure R2R operations are always considered and represented in the end-to-end design of New Business Initiatives
• Lift today’s process documentation to a next level with SAP BPI helping not only to document but enabling process transparency and data-driven improvement actions.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Required field(s) of study: Business, Economics or Industrial Engineering degree with a major focusing in Finance, Economics or Business Processes, ideally with an Accounting Qualification.
• Project management expertise
• Strong analytical skills (e.g. in structuring complex topics)
• Proven knowledge of SAPs processes, data sources and tools (ERP, Analytics)
• Availability to work across different time zones and in a virtual environment, multicultural awareness
• Excellent communication skills, proactive thinking, sense of responsibility, decisive & independent on every management level including Executives 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Strong Change Management skills 

WORK EXPERIENCE

• More than 5 years F&A professional experience, including experience in an operational capacity
• Experience in a Process Management capacity, including process documentation in Signavio is a plus
• Strong Accounting background 
• Good understanding of ERP System and Finance system 
• Experience in and understanding of JIRA and Agile principles is a plus
• Project planning and implementation experience
• Experience in Revenue Accounting for Cloud LOB mandatory

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Requisition ID: 429629  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.