Global Process Lead - Record-to-Report

Job purpose:

Own the target process, standards, controls and improvement roadmap for Record-to-Report. The role will improve close, reconciliation, accounting quality, controllership and reporting through harmonized design, process intelligence and disciplined adoption.

Key accountabilities:

Process ownership:

- Define the end-to-end R2R process architecture, global standard, roles, policies, controls and hand-offs.

- Govern journal accounting, period close, reconciliations, intercompany, fixed assets, consolidation inputs and statutory/corporate reporting interfaces.

- Maintain fit-to-standard decisions and a transparent register of approved local variants.

Performance and improvement:

- Define a balanced KPI tree covering speed, quality, control, effort, exceptions and user experience.

- Use SAP Signavio and operational data to identify rework, late activities, manual interventions and process deviations.

- Lead initiatives for faster close, reconciliation automation, touchless processing and stronger balance-sheet governance.

Transformation and adoption:

- Provide process leadership to ERP, close, consolidation, intercompany and reporting programmes.

- Own business requirements, design sign-off, UAT acceptance criteria, readiness and post-go-live conformance.

- Build process playbooks and capability for controllers, shared services and local finance teams.

Qualifications and experience:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline; postgraduate or professional qualification is preferred.

- Experience in a multinational, manufacturing, consumer, engineering, shared-services, consulting or complex matrix environment.

- Demonstrated success in cross-functional transformation, process improvement and senior stakeholder influence.

- Working knowledge of SAP ERP environments; exposure to SAP Signavio, process mining or business process management is strongly preferred.

- Lean Six Sigma, BPM, change management, project management or relevant finance certification is advantageous.

- Typically 12+ years in controllership, R2R, finance operations or transformation; CA, CPA, CMA, ACCA or equivalent is strongly preferred.

Critical capabilities:

- R2R and controllership - Close excellence - Reconciliations - Process governance - Controls - SAP Finance

Illustrative success measures:

- Close-cycle and late-task improvement.

- Reduction in manual journals, rework and aged reconciling items.

- Conformance to standard process and control design.

- Timely closure of process-mining opportunities.

- Improved accounting quality, audit readiness and stakeholder confidence.