FP&A Regional Business Process Owner Job

General responsibilities (Core & Regional team)

• Under control of Core team & in close coordination with iTeam
  • Identify & analyze future needs and design organizations, processes, and SAP solutions to create a Finance Core Model that meets both legal and business requirements
  • Manage Major Evolution requests: create and present Gap Sheet to Arbitration Committee
  • Contribute actively in process design, organize data and analyze the pros and cons of each alternative solution
  • Work closely with other domain BPOs to design integrated finance flows fulfilling AK management framework
  • Identify all potential cross-company analysis and reporting to leverage capabilities of a global system
  • Create and document detailed FI/CO accounting flows from an end-to-end perspective
  • Define procedures for periodic integrity verification for integrated processes
  • Contribute to building KPIs in coordination with SSC managers to monitor SSC performance
  • Create and maintain the month-end closing cockpit
  • Perform all necessary tests to validate functional efficiency of the system

Roll out phase

• Conduct Gap Analysis workshops
• Collect any legal/business gaps and organize workshops to design a compliant solution in coordination with Core Team
  • Prepare & conduct Data sample kick-off
  • Introduce and explain data
  • Promote Finance Organizational Core Model (FTOM) of Arkema to provide a clear picture of roles and responsibilities
• Perform Detailed Organization Impacts analysis & assist local management to build an action plan to mitigate risk
• Define organizational restrictions to be applied to derived functional Business Roles
• Maintain & validate user role matrix
• Build Training plan & train key users project team
• Build test plan and validate completeness of tests
• Execute cycle tests and assist key users in UAT; analyze defects and liaise with Core team to fix bugs
• Adapt and follow up the Cutover plan according to the legacy data source and assist key users in data conversion

Ongoing activities

• BPO Core Team
  • Create and maintain the Finance Business Process Master List (BPML)
  • Create, maintain and release the process documentation with a process-oriented approach
  • Create and maintain WW organizational master data and perform all necessary data reallocation to conform with new requirements
  • Maintain Business Role according to Organizational Core Model & ensure compliance with AK group internal control policy (SOD)
  • Closely monitor and update the progress of the activities and alert of any delay in delivery
• BPO Regional Team
  • Create & maintain a Process Academy program for rollout, newcomers & knowledge improvement
  • Organize, plan and deliver training sessions
  • Create Service Evolution Request, follow the progress, test and approve release in production system
  • Organize feedback sessions to identify new requirements, improve efficiency, and share best practices
  • Identify any misuse of the system impacting data accuracy or closing deadlines and define action plans
  • Role & Authorization: design organizational restriction for local users, request BR derivation, define Access requests approval workflow & organize periodic Roles & Authorization review

• Education: Business school & 5-10 years Finance background
• Strong interest in IT systems and good knowledge in Finance, and SAP; knowledge of an ERP would be a plus
• Capacities: analytical insight, coaching ability, teamwork leadership, change management promoter