Business Consultant - Process Design - Finance & Accounts/Record To Report/Procure To Pay - Agri - CA

CA- Business Consultant: Process design for F & A ( RTR, P2P)

Business Consultant (Process Management & Governance - Finance & Procurement)

It is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources.

Purpose:

- Ensure the designs of business processes are (1) in line with global standards, (2) scalable, (3) aligned across functions

- Provide the necessary governance and oversight to ensure processes are operated compliantly, ensuring that there is constructive and effective governance of service delivery quality from the outsourcing partners

- To be accountable for the clear definition of any change in the Finance GSM and to provide direction to outsourcing partners over system enables and or enhancements to process design

- To ensure the ICF is correctly represented within the design and to leverage SOX & Compliance experts to ensure proper definitions

- To hold the governance and approval authority in order to ensure consistency with GSM process, and implementation of best practice processes

About this Job:

- Work closely with the Fi-P Leadership to benchmark processes and to recommend changes that will bring improvements in efficiency and effectiveness

- Multi-Dimensional Role: Provides an opportunity to design/reengineer/validate finance & procurement processes along with managing governance and influencing outsourcing partners

- Involves multiple stakeholder management across boundaries

- Ensure that the functional business processes are designed to be operated compliantly

- Ensure that the business processes managed by outsourced partners are operated compliantly

- Ensure changes to business process are delivered in a way that adheres standards

- Ensure the consistent application of process standards and intervene directly where standards are not being met.

- Ensure the compliance of projects within approved process and system standards

- Support strategic planning for major changes to processes and provide specialist knowledge to enable change to be defined

- Take accountability of all small changes to processes

- Conduct independent assessments of processes to identify areas where compliance must be strengthened

- Ensure the solution architecture is aligned with business process design and these meet guidelines and frameworks

- Keep track on the latest industry trends for BPM and for the relevant functional area

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

Functional Competency: Business Process Governance and Process Policy Management

- Can define process steps in an end-to-end.

- Assesses impact of a change on an existing business process coming from a new project or tool/system implementation.

- Ensures compliance of processes within approved process and system standards.

- Applies Lean / Six Sigma principles to improve processes.

- Ensures that Business processes run by outsourced partners are run compliantly.

- Is able to do Process discovery and modelling minimal support and in virtual environment

Leadership Competency: Stakeholder Management (Internal & External), Change Management

- Good Inter Personal Skills: Ability to partner with internal & external stakeholders

- Able to influence stakeholders both internal as well as external.

- Ability to do impact assessment for the change for an end to end process.

- Helps process owners understand opportunities for Process Improvements.

- Ability to work virtually and across cultural boundaries

- Independently support Projects for Finance, Procurement and IT

Critical Knowledge required:

- Year of experience: 7 to 12 year experience working with Finance and Procurement processes (e.g. A2R, FP&A, Invoice Management, Credit Management, Banking, Treasury, Procurement,)

- Good Understanding of relevant international accounting standards/ principles, including IFRS, US, GAAP, SOX & Compliance

- Good Understanding of Business Process Management and Value Stream Mapping

- Good understanding of end to end Accounting to Reporting particularly manufacturing accounting, Inventory management, Product Costing.

- End to end knowledge of functional processes that impact on Finance and Procurement activities.

- Must have worked for 3+ years in SAP

Qualification required:

- University degree (Bachelors) in a commercial/ business. Must Be Chartered Accountant

Additional Information:

- Fluent in English, both orally and in writing

- International experience working with large multinationals

- Ability to travel

- Work well in open office environment