Job Description

Mission

• Responsible to lead the Procure to Pay Shared Services function. Ensure that controls and standard practices are in place for payables processing within the various business units.
• Deliver the vision of creating transaction-processing centre of excellence, ensuring the process flows and procedures in line with corporate requirement and accounting standards.
• Manage more than 10 legal entities globally and lead more than 15 direct staffs within the P2P tower.
• Manage services to client entities against agreed service level and operating controls, which ensure compliance with all governance requirements and adherence to company guidelines.
• Create, review, and maintain policies and procedures associated with the Procure to Pay (P2P) including the recommendation for process enhancements to policies and procedures.
• Lead the design, execution, documentation and review of current processes as per the Global SSC model. Owner of service performance scorecard according to SLAs and established KPIs.
• Provide technical expertise in the required process area, effectively resolving escalations and more complex queries.
• Interact with purchaser and Master Data Management Team to address the issues pertaining to the vendor creation and modification process.
• Participate in the project management covering tax computation, master data creation, capitalisation date, control costs on WBS and following project costs.
• Drive and assist in SSC development, such as transition, project transformation, additional scope etc.
• To assume the role of Procure to Pay (P2P), Fixed Assets Accounting and Company and Tax Accounting (CTA) activities according to the business role defined in the Financial Target Operating Model (FTOM).

Required Profile

• Recognized degree in Finance/Accounting or relevant disciplines; or professional qualifications such as ACCA, CPA
• Technically strong in Procure to Pay (P2P) and capable to manage the end-to-end process independently.
• Experience in system migration/transformation projects
• At least 7-8 years working experience and 2-3 years of managerial experience on leading a large team.
• Experience in Shared Services Centre will be advantageous
• Proficiency in SAP system and computer applications (Microsoft Office Applications), Experience on Power BI will be a plus.

• Good command of English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Mature with good leadership and able to work independently, possess initiative, strong sense of responsibility and high degree of integrity.
• Strong team management\xd9\xab negotiation and problem-solving skills.

Competencies

Communicating Effectively

Negotiation Skills

People Management

Problem Solving/Analysis

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