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Business Process Senior Director, Finance

Employer
Spectrum Brands
Location
Middleton
Salary
Competitive

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Job Summary

Key areas of focus will include business process improvement, project planning and management, financial and operational analyses, corporate strategy development, and change management.

Works closely with the organizations functional leaders and ERP implementation teams to help find solutions to the organizations toughest issues and provides internal consulting support for evaluation and implementation across the organization.

Identify and leverage executives, IT support, business leaders, and global subject matter experts needed to drive the development, design and adoption of new business processes and practices.

Assess business and application requirements and design robust business processes while considering leading industry business practices

Drives the execution of organizational change and strategic performance initiatives with necessary governance, oversight mechanisms, and process improvement efforts required to ensure the achievement of the organizations annual operational priorities.

Leads critical initiatives requiring analytical and decision support to frame key issues, develop hypotheses, assess risks, conduct analyses, and identify potential solutions prior to mobilizing commitment and designing broader implementation and engagement plans.

Utilizes change management principles, processes, tools, and identifies change strategies, assesses stakeholder impacts and organizational readiness, communicates with and trains facility participants, provides appropriate levels of support and supervision, and measures project effectiveness.

Apply consistent project management approaches and processes, identify and report roadblocks and variances to project plan, ensure projects are on schedule and achieve stated objectives. Coordinate with team members to identify and document resource constraints.

Take ownership in all project issues with a hands-on approach to root cause analysis and problem resolution while leading team to fact-based decision making.

Develop and maintain business process documentations that will be used as reference for preparing test cases, training documents, etc.

Facilitate any organizational process workshop acting as liaison with users and process requirements.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Key areas of focus will include business process improvement, project planning and management, financial and operational analyses, corporate strategy development, and change management.
Works closely with the organizations functional leaders and ERP implementation teams to help find solutions to the organizations toughest issues and provides internal consulting support for evaluation and implementation across the organization.
Identify and leverage executives, IT support, business leaders, and global subject matter experts needed to drive the development, design and adoption of new business processes and practices.
Assess business and application requirements and design robust business processes while considering leading industry business practices
Drives the execution of organizational change and strategic performance initiatives with necessary governance, oversight mechanisms, and process improvement efforts required to ensure the achievement of the organizations annual operational priorities.
Leads critical initiatives requiring analytical and decision support to frame key issues, develop hypotheses, assess risks, conduct analyses, and identify potential solutions prior to mobilizing commitment and designing broader implementation and engagement plans.
Utilizes change management principles, processes, tools, and identifies change strategies, assesses stakeholder impacts and organizational readiness, communicates with and trains facility participants, provides appropriate levels of support and supervision, and measures project effectiveness.
Apply consistent project management approaches and processes, identify and report roadblocks and variances to project plan, ensure projects are on schedule and achieve stated objectives. Coordinate with team members to identify and document resource constraints.
Take ownership in all project issues with a hands-on approach to root cause analysis and problem resolution while leading team to fact-based decision making.
Develop and maintain business process documentations that will be used as reference for preparing test cases, training documents, etc.
Facilitate any organizational process workshop acting as liaison with users and process requirements.

Education and Experience Profile

Bachelors degree in Business, Accounting, Engineering, Operations, or relevant disciplines required.

Masters degree preferred.

Experience and knowledge implementing finance systems using project lifecycle processes, including design, testing, implementation and support

10+ years of experience in transformation, ERP implementation, SAP FI and CO modules

5- 7+ years of experience in an international IT environment (ideally in manufacturing).

Six Sigma, Lean, and/or Change Management Certification a plus

Knowledge of SAP S/4 Simple Finance, Central Finance and Group Reporting desired

Required Skills
Ability to lead change while achieving business goals and objectives.

Exceptional qualitative and quantitative analysis skills.

Hands-on, results-oriented and pragmatic.

Creative, flexible, strategic thinker, able to work in a fast-paced, complex, and dynamic work environment.

Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with excellent presentation skills and the ability to adapt to differing audiences.

Ability to manage through influence and build strong cross-functional relationships.

Ability to manage multiple priorities with tight deadlines.

Strong organizational, problem solving and analytical skills, including proficiency in statistical analysis.

Team player who can also work independently and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

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