Maersk Line - Business Process Owner - Finance & Accounting

Business Process Owner - Finance & Accounting

Business Process Owner is the single point of contact for the businesses in regards to the overall Accounting & Reporting processes & system requirements.

This role plays a strategic part in designing and harmonizing system specifications to satisfy on-going business needs in support of related process issues.

The process owner sets objectives and prioritizes issues and initiatives for implementation. The process owner also generates discussion, develops impact analysis, and manages change requests for relevant system changes submitted by the Businesses. Upon final evaluation and determination of business requests, the Process Owner collaborates with the IT organization to ensure requested changes are completed.

Responsibilities:

- Drives governance ensuring a fit for purpose design within the global operating model

- Participates in establishing strategic future state vision

- Drives a common process standard design across Maersk Oil & Gas and leads standardization and simplification of business processes and system functionality

- Identifies current state of end-to-end process, as well as gather and assess business requirements for harmonizing process Lead business fit analysis, identify gaps, scope of change and review alternatives.

- Approves system solutions from a business requirements standpoint Consults with IT and/or technical consultants for quality of technical/solution design and scope changes Manages scope and impact of proposed new business requirements as well as end user expectations with respect to process and system functionality

- Identifies scope for process changes and judges project time and cost in cooperation with BPO head and applicable steering committees

- Identifies and oversees testing and training requirements, approves test scenarios and supports business teams for training initiatives

- Assesses business operational project risk and takes appropriate mitigation actions

- Continuous process improvement

Qualifications:

- Charted Accountant / Master's degree or MBA a strong plus Proven business acumen in global operations of Finance & Accounting processes.

- Minimum 8-10 year's of experience in Leadership roles in Finance, Controlling, or Group Controlling Experience working within a Finance shared service environment Strong business acumen.

- Proven problem solving skills Experience with change management and root cause analysis techniques

- Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment Self-motivated to operate in an independent and collaborative mode

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

- Working knowledge of end to end Accounting & Reporting activities

- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills; communicates effectively with diverse people at various organization levels with the right level of detail and cultural sensitivity.

- Flexible and open to new ideas with the ability to understand issues from corporate and local perspective

- Ability to decompose complex processes into sub-processes with strong analytical and problem solving skills Ability to build strong relationships with peers and leaders by building trust and credibility, i.e. strong collaboration skills Organizational agility

- Experience in collaboration in a matrix-managed environment, and across multiple and diverse groups

- Strong attention to detail

- Active listening skills to understand business needs and steer business team to take decisions that have enterprise-wide impact

- Effective meeting management skills Effective direction of individuals without reporting authority to achieve goals and meet deadlines

- Proven ability to be flexible and work both independently and in a team environment