Business Analysis & Controlling Process Excellence and Solutions Lead

• Grade: L3-2
• Hiring Manager: Viktoriya Akhmetova
• Location: Budapest, Hungary
• Remote working is possible, limited travel is expected
• Job type: Permanent, Full time

​About the job

Our Team:

​ You will be a part of the Europe Business Analysis & Controlling Center of Excellence (CoE) within the Opella Global Finance team, aimed at building a best-in-class BA&C organization supporting European countries of the EULA Region. This CoE, strategically located in Budapest, provides high-quality finance services for Commercial Operations, ensuring improved processes, tools & enhanced user experience, strengthens business focus and BA&C expertise, as well as promotes simplification, harmonization and automation within the Opella Finance organization.

The main focus of the BA&C CoE team is P&L execution, including Actuals closing, forecasting, reporting & analysis as well as partnering to local Finance Performance Leads & Business stakeholders.

Job Purpose:

• BA&C Process Excellence and Solutions lead is accountable for:
  • Ownership for Finance processesand Core Model in the region;
  • Warranty all regional core model/process are aligned to global finance Core Model.

• Play a key role for regional BA&C organization and remains accountable for:
  • Strategic design &deployment of regional/global processes & tools under BA&C ownership in the most consistent and efficient way;
  • Responsible for design of relevant Internal Controls for and continues improvement of BA&C processes;
  • Responsible for developing of Performance management eco-system for BA&C, accountable for design for BA&C performance KPIs and operational KPIs, showing positive KPI trend and excellence in execution.
  • BA&C Regional team monitors regional financial performance and trajectory, drives finance planning and forecasting processes, provides support to regional management on financial assessment of the business performance & making informed business decisions, as well as contributes / drives transversal initiatives to improve region’s profitability and promotes simplification, harmonization, and automation in Finance organization.

• He/She will bring leadership, functional and solution expertise, focused on user centric mindset, Business Value and generally focus on continues improvement, efficiency and standardization within the BA&C environment.

Main responsibilities:

• Design & deploy capabilities within regional BA&C team to ensure professional roll-out of finance processes and solutions locally/regional/globally & ensure continues support the live countries after implementation. In addition, must ensure consistency between global projects and continuous improvement initiatives, transition of global initiatives from Project to Run state.
• Identify and successfully implement opportunities for finance process and tools improvements, fostering a culture of continual process improvement.
• Design & establish Core Model & define / formalize relevant processes at all required levels. Implement the relevant Core Model methodology, SOPs, relevant documents & flowcharts (incl. RACI & step-by step process descriptions). Define the best methodology at regional & country level to formalize all relevant BA&C processes & procedures. Then ensure that they will be kept up-to-date and reliable & reflect all the continuous improvement changes.
• Responsible for addressing deviations, and alignment with relevant functions. Will be the process designer and the gatekeeper of the end-to-end BA&C processes.
• Accountable for internal controls in BA&C and for audit. Will create & maintain relevant business governance to demonstrate transparently KPI progress monitoring & IC framework execution for the live countries & to ensure efficient business dialogue with stakeholders.
• Drive design and lead deployment of Global standard solutions for regional BA&C:
• Leverage operational excellence;
• Leverage process improvement initiatives: Collect, create, understand, and share best practices from BA&C or external best-in-class service organizations.
• Define and implement Global Governance Model for Recurring Services: ensuring SLA's are being met for all Service requests and changes.
• Promote/enforce agreed Core Model standards and best practices ensuring the proper alignment within zones and direct countries.
• Provide subject matter expertise to ensure effectiveness and correct adherence to global policies, procedures, and the Core Models.
• Accountable for integrating and coordinating all project activities, including definition and implementation of strategies, actions, and governance to achieve plan and business objectives.
• Audit and Internal Control Processes Management.
• Design the way to monitor Mandatory Controls to be implemented, in line with Internal Control Manual. Achieve simplification and harmonization (together with Global Internal Control team).
• Strong Coordination/alignment to ensure guidance and compliance by all countries in the region.
• Segregation of Duties and Access to Systems.

About you

• Experience: 10+ years’ service delivery and management in finance controlling environment, Very strong expertise in financial processes, Prior experience of working in a global environment, Demonstrated track record of successful Project Management.
• Soft skills: Strong Leadership skills, Capability to negotiate and convince, Strategic thinking and process impact understanding, Ability to influence in a context of high resistance to change, Ability to understand and simplify complex processes, Strong analytical skills to resolve critical issues and ensure projects stay on track, Effective collaboration skills with peers, stakeholders, and partners across the organization, High level of interpersonal/ communication skills with an ability to communicate and present at different levels of the organization, Transversal mindset and ability to work across processes, geographies, languages, cultures, business maturity levels, Capability to understand technology, Ability to translate process / organization improvement into concrete P&L savings.
• Technical skills: Proficiency in Excel, ERP (e.g., SAP), reporting tools (e.g., TM1) and data visualization platforms (Power BI, Qlik sense, etc.)
• Education: Degree qualified in finance, business, or accounting
• Languages: fluency in English is required