VP/AVP - Finance Process Re Engineering

Associate Vice President / Vice President (Finance Process Reengineering)

Job Description:

- Engage leaders to adopt process excellence practices for operational improvements,

- Work with teams to solve chronic problems that impede performance,

- Deploy building blocks that embed a continuous improvement culture,

- Train and coach Leaders and teams in the use of process improvement tools and methodology to ensure timely completion of projects with expected internal and external customer results

- Lead, Own, mentor and execute projects that improve the capacity of finance processes,

- Identifies, prioritises and facilitates improvements projects that consistently meet or exceed customer-defined specifications while maximizing certified financial benefit

- Partner with Vertical and Team Leaders to drive results and assist in project identification/selection, assuring linkage between projects and business and customer priorities

- Deliver significant operational improvement and financial benefit

- Create dashboard to monitor performance and improvements in key metrics

- Act as change agent to instill continual improvement culture throughout the organization

Desired Profile:

- Self-directed, team player with experience of twelve to eighteen years proven and broad-based process management & improvement experience,

- Minimum CA, engineering degree or technology, MBA

- Experience in finance/accounting functions and processes,

- Good Knowledge of Finance Processes

- Deep knowledge of Lean and past experience in leveraging lean as an enabler for business improvement,

- Facilitated transactional-related projects in finance domain with demonstrated success and financial results

- Demonstrable past experience in leveraging lean concepts such as load balancing for creating process capacity and productivity improvement,

- Understanding of change management fundamentals and how to manage it during process improvements,

- Facilitation and Influencing skills to

- Beyond Lean, experience in Six Sigma tools, Kaizen/Work-out, process management, change management

- Experience in coaching and delivering training at all levels of an organization

- Strong leadership skills with proven ability to facilitate cross-functional teams

- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation and facilitation skill

- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects

- Ability to create an open environment supportive of free sharing of information and ideas that is also conducive to contribution, growth and achievement

- Customer focused behavior

- Experience in driving improvements in service set up especially in a finance function,

- Proficiency in Windows, Minitab, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and simulation software

- Certification as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Black Belt, BPM Leader or Lean Master or equivalent preferred