Finance Process Expert M/F

Finance Process Expert M/F

Allianz Trade is the brand name for all the services offered by Euler Hermes.

We are the world's leading credit insurer, and a recognized expert in bonding, debt collection, structured finance, and political risk.

For over a century, we have been helping companies to anticipate risk, act quickly, make informed decisions, and grow securely.

Headquartered in Paris, Allianz Trade is present in over 50 countries with 5,700 employees. In 2023, our consolidated sales reached 3.7 billion euros, and we guaranteed 1,131 billion euros of trade transactions worldwide.

As part of the Allianz Group, we are part of a strong international community, rooted in a culture where both people and performance count.

Our employees' well-being, individual needs, and aspirations are our top priorities. Together, we are shaping an environment in which everyone can evolve with confidence and flourish.

Let's take control of the future together.

The Role

The Finance Process Expert reports directly to the Head of Finance Transformation and is responsible for leading and coordinating business efforts on Finance transformation.

Responsibilities

• Act as the interface between Group Finance, regional Finance functions, and Operations, and ensure business responsibilities on the following topics:
  • Contribute to tool change projects
  • Review and define business priorities, plan business resources
  • Manage and coordinate business activities for the collection and formalization of requirements
  • Contribute to the design and validation of solutions from a business perspective
  • Manage and coordinate user testing of new tools and related features
  • Ensure the adoption of the solution by business functions, adapt and document processes
  • Overall, contribute to change management: training, communication...
  • Organize and coordinate preparatory business activities and lead the prerequisites for transformation: process harmonization...
  • Contribute to the design, maintenance, and improvement of the Digital Operating Model (DOM), particularly document, report, and validate local deviations
  • Establish and implement business guidelines that must be applied
  • Identify and leverage productivity drivers to improve Operational Excellence
  • Contribute to the management of the global/regional super-user community: identify global application super-users
  • Serve as a data manager in the context of the Enterprise Data Model (EDM - defining a common data model for the group)

Experience and Skills Required

• Finance expertise: Minimum 5 years of experience in accounting or management control
• Knowledge in finance
• Strong experience in team/people leadership and team spirit
• Solid experience in change management
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Ability to communicate clearly and in a structured manner about visions, reasons, and objectives - to all types of audiences and levels of seniority
• Ability to lead and manage teams with a collaborative leadership attitude and to drive a community in an international environment
• Client/business-oriented mindset, with the ability to interact with senior stakeholders (including the executive committee) and foster relationships across Allianz Trade
• Ability to think in a structured way, synthesize, prioritize, arbitrate, and decide
• Fluent English

At Allianz Trade, we believe in diverse and inclusive teams, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

Let's care for tomorrow.