sr. Specialist Finance Continuous Improvement

Support key finance relationships through the collection and follow-up of the improvement opportunities by ensuring the definition and execution of the action plan.

Key Responsibilities:

Support and act on finance improvement opportunities identified:

• Support the Finance LAM strategy by coordinating and managing improvement opportunities prioritization within the different teams involved.
• Drive the defined 'drumbeat' through preparing relevant meeting/calls, ensuring structured follow-up on action items and key topics.
• Support on the alignment of the different meetings within the operating rhythm and prepare content, in case it is needed, for them.
• Consolidate and follow up on the open actions to foster improvement.
• Closely tracking action plan progress, and support the teams on issues, decisions, and recommended future actions.
• Support on budget management, business case modelling, cost/return estimations, analytics (as required).
• Actively manage a network across the organization to ensure the connection between teams to achieve successful results.

Support to functional teams of LAM Finance:

• Guide owners in executing LAM Finance action plan by setting objectives, developing detailed plans, defining clear deadlines and actionable commitments.
• Provide feedback to action plan owners to ensure high quality and timely execution.

Key Relationships:

• GBS
• Country Finance Directors
• VP Finance
• Business partners

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Project Management
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Planning and organization
• Analysis and problem solving
• Manage business - process and projects
• Managing through change - ability to manage through changes and uncertainties
• Strong English language proficiency both written and verbal.
• Proven ability to lead and facilitate discussions in small and large groups.
• Strong team player with proven ability to work cross functionally to achieve common goals and objectives.
• Ease interacting with different stakeholders, from different backgrounds, to give visibility of progress or support needed

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 years experience