This role will be leading and developing a large team of Finance Managers and Analysts, covering end to end Order to Cash processes, for one or more business channels. Responsibilities will include hiring, training, and talent development; managing and prioritizing workload and achieving effective results in a fast-paced, growing environment; ensuring existing policies and procedures are followed; managing annual performance targets and operating budget; monitoring and delivering on the key performance metrics.

This role will require engagement and alignment with global and regional operations and finance teams, and building relationships with local business, sales, and accounting teams. The ability to thrive in a fast-paced and demanding work environment is critical to success in this role. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with management and strategic influencing skills, and experienced in large scale change management across functions and geographies. The ideal candidate must have a proven track record of delivering results through outstanding business management skills, operational excellence, problem solving skills, financial process and system knowledge, and customer service passion. This individual will be a very strong finance operations leader, adept at driving change within a very dynamic business environment and has a proven record of delivering process and efficiency results.

Job duties include:

Management responsibilities :

- Performs autonomously, initiates and manages complex, departmental and/or cross- company work. Managing process workload and establishing priorities.

- Is expected to set and improve policies and procedures, maintaining full compliance and implement best practices.

- Independently manages and drives recruiting efforts. Continually raises the bar.

- Plays significant role in career development of the team.

- Drives execution of vision and goals for the team.

Business Responsibilities :

- Setting up process priorities and aligning with overall organization goals.

- Driving organization's collection strategy, plays a leader's role in improving collection efficiencies, spearheads development and implementation of collection tools and other automation.

- Exploring upstream/downstream improvement opportunities by working with business partners, identifying root causes and builds long term solutions.

- Building long term relationship to improve collection life-cycle. Stakeholders and customer management.

- Building and maintaining operations- performance metrics and continually raising the bar.

- Evaluating and communicating accounts receivable controller-ship risks with the Finance Operations, assessing the adequacy of existing controls and implementing new controls as needed.

- Operationalizing policies, documentation and implementation, and procedural compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This includes developing, modifying and maintaining the operational and design effectiveness of internal controls partnering with Internal Audit.

- Ability to lead and contribute in other process areas like billing, cash application, credit notes and deduction management, collections and vendor/customer contact management.

- Hands on experience of managing and leading a team of 50-60 members including operational managers across receivables processes.

- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects with competing goals

- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment - candidate has to be strong in dealing with ambiguity.

Basic qualifications :

- CA, CPA, CWA or MBA Finance, with over 10+ years of relevant Finance and/or Operations experience.

- Demonstrates strong communication (verbal and written) skills and is able to positively influence behaviors and outcomes.

- Experience with Oracle Financials and Business Intelligence, SAP or other ERP will be an added advantage

- Exceptional attention to detail and a work ethic based upon a strong desire to exceed expectations

- Strong analytical skills and ability to evaluate business processes

- Experience with complex problem solving using Lean / Six Sigma techniques desired

- Proven project management ability that shows how to organize, find solutions, and follow through to a successful conclusion

- Advanced presentation skills and the ability to guide and influence leadership

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