Leader - Process Improvement - Finance & Accounting Processes - Manufacturing/Service Industry

Minimum; Black Belt preferred; Finance & Accounting understanding / certification

Experience :

 8- 10 years of experience in manufacturing / service industry; Relevant experience of operationalizing quality /process improvement in a service set up; Off shoring experience preferred

- Hands on experience in framework creation; metrics definition; data handling and analysis

- Lean Six Sigma training & coaching; Should have driven process improvement projects with tangible benefits; Conducting of Brainstorming sessions and Facilitating of Value Stream mapping for Finance & Accounting process

- Should have institutionalized CAPA; Experience with data collation, benchmarking & levers identification for improving performance

Skil lsets required: Strong Analytical and problem solving skills; Knowledge and ability to train on methodologies across organization; Strong Verbal, written communication; Strong facilitation skills; Thorough understanding of Lean tools and concepts - 52, FMEA, Kanban, CAPA; System skills; Solution and Execution mindset; Collaborative; Change Management trained

Responsibilities includes :

- Study current process performance and create metrics 

- Design and implement process improvement framework; Facilitate Lean training

- Conduct Value Stream Mapping & Brainstorming sessions; Provide visibility to senior management on process performance and work with stake holders for improvement. Identify improvement opportunity and deliver results

- Coach and mentor operation managers on quality; Create actionable dashboards 

- Effectively communicate and persuade stakeholders for smooth execution; Effectively communicate to management on trend analysis, Staffing, System & process issues. Create deployment plan

- Metric improvement through POC; Draw internal benchmarks to improve performance

- Create forum for best practices sharing 

- Lead FMEA sessions; Create / improve Visual Management system

Success factors defined -

- Sustainable Process Improvement Framework that delivers Tangible benefits

- 100% Lean trained supervisory manager organization;

- At-least 1 Business Outcome project in each tower in Finance

- Robust Dashboards that drive action

- Minimum 80% Lean trained supervisory manager organization; - 500+ ideas with an 80% implementation rate

- Measurement System for all Finance & Accounting processes for the center

- Error free processing - Visible reduction in error %