Director – Global Standardization & Digitization, PTP

Key Responsibilities

• Process Ownership & Governance: Define, own, and govern global finance process standards, ensuring consistent application, documentation, and continuous improvement across all regions and client segments.
  
• Cross-Functional Optimization: Design, document, and deploy process enhancements by integrating best practices and lean re-engineering methods to drive operational excellence and improved client experience.
• Process Performance Management: Develop, implement, and monitor key process performance metrics and KPIs, leading regular global review cycles, root cause analyses, and data-driven interventions to achieve targeted outcomes.
  
• Global Training & Team Coordination: Lead learning opportunities for virtual global process teams, fostering knowledge sharing and capability development. Drive robust process training and certification programs to ensure operational mastery across geographies.
  
• Knowledge Management: Oversee integrity of process documentation and manage a unified global knowledge base for finance operations, ensuring accessibility and up-to-date information for teams and stakeholders.
  
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders—global leadership, regional leadership, service delivery teams—to align priorities and ensure high engagement levels and positive outcomes.
  
• Best Practice Implementation: Assess global finance operating landscape to identify, validate, and institutionalize best practices, supporting harmonization and agility of process design within client organizations.
  
• Project Leadership: Manage the design and delivery of transformational projects as defined within the Global Finance Roadmap.
  
• Translating Initiatives: Translate improvement initiatives into deliverables and coordinate with Regional Service Delivery Leads and local process owners for execution.
  
• System Enhancement Roadmap: Contribute to and assess the system enhancements roadmap in collaboration with business lines and functions, translating changes into process and system demands.
  
• Risk and Compliance Oversight: Ensure strong internal controls across processes and proactively identify and mitigate operational risks and compliance exposures.
  
• Project Execution: Generate detailed project execution plans, including contract, cost, schedule, and health and safety requirements; ensure successful delivery to meet client and commercial objectives.
  
• Reporting & Insights: Present progress updates and meaningful insights to Steering Committees and stakeholders; drive data-backed improvements as part of ongoing transformation and process ownership.
  
• Requirements Gathering: Engage with clients, business, and finance teams to clarify scope, develop estimates, and secure sponsor approvals.

Qualification & Requirements

Our successful Transformation Leaders and Process Owners

• Engage confidently with stakeholders across regions and functions and see things from both client and operational perspectives.
• Demonstrate strong leadership in setting global standards and driving change.
• Bring a structured, analytical, and organized approach to everything they do.
• Communicate and collaborate globally to achieve success.
• Thrive under pressure, balancing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Influence outcomes and drive adoption of best practices at scale

To apply you need to be:

• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at multiple levels, across regions and client segments.
• Demonstrated experience in leading complex transformation projects and operations for finance domains, including end-to-end process ownership for procure to pay.
• Significant experience as a corporate or client-side process expert or global process leader.
• Track record of designing, delivering, and governing process transformation, standardization, and improvement initiatives at scale.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls, risk, and regulatory environments worldwide.
• Deep finance process and systems experience, including expertise in global ERPs (preferably JDE, PeopleSoft or equivalent).
• Excellent organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills, with proven capability to drive global alignment and transparency.
• Resilience in dealing with competing priorities, ambiguity, and demanding timelines.
• An influential, big-picture thinker who drives adoption of global standards and best practices.
• Experience designing, implementing, and monitoring process KPIs and performance analytics.
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced international environment.

Qualifications

• CA or MBA required.
• 20+ years of experience in finance and accounting, with a proven track record of successful transformation projects and global process ownership roles in procure to pay.

Benefits

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