Manager Financial Process Expertise – Source to Pay Processes

Action is looking for a Manager Financial Process Expertise within Financial Projects & Processes. You will lead a team of experts focused on efficient and controlled financial Source-to-Pay (S2P) processes. Would you like to apply your process transformation and financial systems knowledge within Europe’s largest retailer? Then read on!

Manager Financial Process Expertise – Source to Pay Processes

This is your daily action

Your team, Financial Process Expertise S2P, ensures that Action’s finance function is supported by modern systems and a coherent financial process & control framework. As the Team Lead, your challenge is to realize significant improvements of the effectiveness, efficiency, and risk mitigation of our main financial processes.

In this role, it is very important to maintain close contact with the stakeholders involved. These include managers and team leads within the finance discipline, program and project managers. Within your area of expertise you are the connecting pin between Operations and Technology. You determine priority in change and as such the transformation roadmap in S2P.

You manage your team, ensuring everyone continues to be highly motivated to realize ambitious targets. In addition:

• You ensure that a financial process model, supported by high quality process documentation is in place;
• You coordinate the implementation of the Risk Control Framework relative to financial processes;
• Process performance will be monitored based on a set of KPIs that you design + maintain;
• You drive process redesign initiatives, addressing the impact on systems and taking responsibility for business change.
• Focus area’s include source to pay process improvement for our non commercial purchasing with the use of Ariba & VIM; digitalization of commercial and non commercial invoices, partly driven by new legislation, partly by efficiency opportunities & optimization of rental contract & invoice handling.

Meet your team

Within the team Financial Projects & Processes there are two Process teams, one focusing on S2P and one on R2R & O2C. The expert team S2P consists of 6 enthusiastic and committed team members, some with an international background. As the team lead, you report to the Head of Financial Projects & Processes who in addition manages our project and program managemers.

Financial Projects & Processes is part of Financial Services which handles the entire administration of our international organisation and employs around 100 different specialists. Do you want to work in the dynamic environment of Europe’s fastest growing retailer, with plenty of international growth opportunities? If so, it's time to take action!

This is you

As a Manager Financial Process Expertise, you are an experienced manager of people in an international setting and possess coaching skills that fit the professional level of your team members. In addition:

• You are educated at master’s degree level and subsequently obtained an executive master’s degree, e.g. as a chartered accountant or chartered controller;
• Your prior work experience includes at least 10 years in roles such as financial or business controller, auditor or consultant, process expert, project manager or in business facing technology positions delivering significant changes in large organizations;
• Your work experience includes an operational or advisory role in the S2P domain, for example as an AP manager or S2P consultant in a finance transformation
• You obtained certifications in project management (Prince2 foundation level) and process improvement (Lean Six Sigma green belt level);
• You have knowledge of the SAP product suite supporting financial processes, of financial processes, and of audit, risk management and internal control practices;
• You have an excellent command of English, both spoken and written and you are comfortable engaging with and presenting to senior management.

What we offer

Surprisingly more! From our bustling home base in the Netherlands, you’ll have an impact on the whole of Europe. And we have big growth ambitions. For Action and for you. Because our growth means that you can always take new steps. A different job, an interesting innovation project, new skills: as a professional you can develop without limits. And all this in a culture where our shared values are truly lived: Customer focus, teamwork, simplicity, discipline, cost conscious and respect.

Did you know that you can also count on us for:

• 24 days holiday with the option to buy five additional days (based on 38 hours per week)
• Annual bonus of between 12.5 and 25% based on personal and business objectives
• Participation in the long term incentive plan
• A competitive salary based on a 38-hour week
• The option to spend up to 40% of your hours working from home (in coordination with your team and manager)
• 15% staff discount on your purchases at Action
• A good pension scheme, collective health insurance and car allowance.
• Zwaagdijk-Oost is traffic jam-free and only 30 minutes by car from Amsterdam.

How we contribute to society

If you only know Action from the stores, a world will open up for you when you join us. For example, we are working hard behind the scenes to make a positive impact on society and the environment. Did you know, for example, that we sponsor more than 2,000 children worldwide who are growing up in an SOS Children’s Village? That our team reflects the diversity of our customers, including 124 nationalities? That we already source 70% of our wood products and 86% of our cotton sustainably? And that only energy-efficient LED lighting is used in more than half of our stores? Yes, that is also Action. Curious about what other initiatives we’re facilitating? Join our team and find out for yourself.