Digital Business Partner - Finance & Accounts Domain - Steel/Energy/Power/Manufacturing Industry

Roles & Responsibilities:

The position assumes the role of Digital Business Partner for Finance Domain and providing strategic alignment for all digital initiatives for organizational finance function.

Functional Requirement:

- Clear Understanding of financial workflow of a manufacturing organization. Must have clear understanding of end-to-end finance processes (such as AP - Accounts payable, AR - Accounts receivable, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, record-to-report) by assessing challenges, needs and gaps

- Must have prior experience in digital technologies to improve operational effectiveness, compliance, and reporting.

- Prior experience in working with technology enabled organizational finance process supported by DATA driven decision making.

- Create strategies and tactical blueprints that help set the organizational financial roadmap

- Work with all digital finance transformation partners to ensure prioritization and execution of project plan aligns with the Company's goals

Technical Must Requirement:

- Must have clarity in understanding of SAP FICO module along with depth functional knowledge on GRC Controls, Financial Control Automation, Taxation, Treasury, Account Payable and receivable, Compliances, Export Finance.

- Identify and provide Digital solutions to key business challenges and drive tangible business value or increase productivity of financial process

- Work with business and technology teams (Internal development team, Business users and external partners) to outline digital solution and implementation plan

- Qualify, prioritize critical KPIs / metrics that shall reflect gains due to digital intervention

- Must have worked on at least one of BI reporting and dashboarding tools (e.g., Power BI, Spotfire, Qlik Sense, Dundas BI, Tableau etc.)

- Skilled to prepare the Multiple business cases and project charter understanding the financial flow or the organization

Behavioral Requirement:

- Result and outcome driven.

- Data driven decision making

Proactively manage and monitor different aspects of the program i.e., analyze, design, implementation, change management and sustainability.

- Improvement, adoption in business and focus on value realization across the group

- Help debottleneck issues on the ground by participating in change management, serve as point of escalation for procurement

- Enable and govern relationships with external partners / vendors

- Acting as a SPOC between Finance and Digital transformation team

Desired Qualification/Experience:

Chartered accountant or Bachelor's/Master's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance. 10-15 Years of Experience in Managing Manufacturing company's financial process is required along with at least 5+ years of additional responsibility of digital transformation focal.

Industry Type & Exposure:

Preferred Industry vertical: Steel / Energy or Power / Manufacturing

Additional Skill: Technology Understanding and Knowledge in ERP, Analytics etc. along with Finance.