MISSION AND OBJECTIVES
Transformation Projects objective is to drive and lead major and complex transformation projects ensuring their contribution to the F&S function’s ambitions and strategy.
The mission of Transformation Projects team, with specific focus on people, processes and solutions, is to:
- Drive transformation initiatives by identifying program priorities
- Act as a leader and coordinator with mandate to:
- Develop the on boarding strategy of stakeholders at all levels of the Group (central, regions and territories, entities, businesses, IT and other functions,…)
- Ensure the implication of all teams including FRESH (IT)
- Contribute to projects initiated by Business Lines/Functions on Finance function scope
The scope of transformation is focused on three main streams:
- Finance Platforms Transformation
- Serving the New Finance target organization
- Oxygen platform regionalization and one worldwide platform model, outsourcing initiatives, including process optimization and harmonization
- Driven by One Finance System implementation
- Process & Solutions design
- Re-engineering of processes and solutions
- Business Lines Finance
- Accompany Business Lines and Local Finance transformation
- Mutualisation of processes
Location: The position will be located in Madrid. Some travel may be required
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Key responsibilities of the role:
- Ensure consistent, on-time execution of any project across all F&S
- Orchestrate workflow and resources to ensure delivery on time, on cost and with the right quality
- Communicate project status to the stakeholders regularly
- Define the processes to be followed by the different teams in F&S
- Transform needs into requirements, guaranteeing the delivery and their proper implementation, ensuring the documentation is up-to-date
- Handle change management (including trainings) of the users/stakeholders
Detailed task description :
- Organize trainings, presentations and everything required to make the project succeed
- Manage the projects in due time according to roadmap expected and agreed
- Apply methodology, guidelines and best practices provided on project management
- Manage the transfer of activities to the platform/s by carrying out a detail analysis of the tasks and activities, being capable to challenge the assumptions and guide the different teams to find agreement on the target operating model
- Manage interdependencies with other projects going on within the Oxygen platform (ie. key one is One Finance System program)
- Manage relationship with project stakeholders (ie. Head-office F&S, business lines, IT)
REQUIREMENTS
Training and occupational experience
- Bachelor's degree (B.S./B.A.) on finance, accounting or engineering, being Master's degree beneficial
- 2-5 years of experience, preferably in finance
- Experience as a business analyst, project manager or PMO
- Experience working in international environment appreciated
Essential specific requirements
- Language: fluent in English (both oral and written) and Spanish and French would be a plus
- Microsoft Office Suite: Proficient in Excel, PPT & Word and appreciated in Sharepoint
- Advanced oral and written communication and negotiation skills, planning and organizational abilities
- Must be able to work independently and handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to adapt to change, result driven and problem solver (problem = solutions)
- Team player and collaborative mindset
- Capacity to perform rigorous analysis and report in a synthetic manner
Other knowledge and skills that would be a plus
- Knowledge of financial information systems
- IT skills: Planning tools, SQL, reporting tools, ETL
