Senior Manager – P2P Finance/Operations
Senior Manager – P2P Finance/Operations
Location; Cork Ireland
12 Months FTC – view to extension
Our client is currently looking for a people-oriented, customer-centric, and forward-thinking Senior Manager – P2P Finance/Operations, to join its growing team in Cork. This individual will be an exceptional professional, who consistently exceeds expectations, thrives in a challenging and dynamic work environment, and will be an active contributor to our team. The Manager will work cross-functionally and have regular interaction with key business partners.
Travel Percentage 0 -10%
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a Purchase to Pay (P2P) team of 8-10 individuals.
- Actively connect with your people and drive engagement by holding regular 1-1’s and team meetings.
- Coaching and developing a team to its fullest potential to contribute to overall performance
- Develop top talent by participating in regular succession planning and having robust performance conversations.
- Recognise and reward excellent performance within the team.
- Create, Promote and Maintain Operational Excellence
- Work as part of the management team to make the department a great place to work for all employees.
- Work in partnership with various cross-functional stakeholders to maintain efficient and compliant processes.
- Ensure the culture of compliance is reinforced continuously within the team.
- Actively develop and maintain trusted relationships internally & externally with all business partners, while providing thoughtful and candid insights into key business matters.
- Leads where possible continuous improvement initiatives including standardization and/or re-engineering of processes and controls.
- Continuously look for ways to improve our service level for our customers /stakeholders
- At all times, provide input and recommendations into the current process and ways in which it can be improved in terms of efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ensure best practices are in place to achieve the highest standards within daily operations.
- Drive and contribute to cross-functional projects where the opportunity arises.
- Demonstrate excellent project management abilities and a strong understanding of financial systems.
- Support organizational changes.
- Analyse and translate data into key strategic inputs and insights to drive decision-making.
- Proven ability to work on high-level value-add ad hoc projects while continuing to achieve routine goals
- Build Strong Working Relationships with:
– CFO’s, Controller, and all stakeholders for supported affiliates- Other functions: GA, O2C, CMS, etc.- Working with Global P2P Teams ensuring alignment on Global process
- Review Key performance metrics with impacted stakeholders
- Governance of the Outsourced Business Partner for Purchase to Pay and ensuring that service delivery meets SLA metrics.
Qualifications
- Strong People Management & Leadership Skills
- CPA, CIMA, ACCA, Chartered Accountant, or equivalent
- Demonstrated knowledge of financial work stream with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a multinational environment.
- Self-motivated professional with excellent customer service and strong working/team-building relationship skills
- Proven interpersonal and communication skills to interact with all levels of an organization
- Demonstrates good judgment and is solution orientated
- Ability to work independently and within a team environment
- Strong organizational and multitasking capabilities
- Attentive to details to ensure compliance and accurate reporting.
- Clear and concise written skills.
- Experience working to tight deadlines and analysing multiple entities.
- Flexibility in adapting to a non-routine and fast-paced environment.
- Systems Experience especially SAP is a plus