Company Description
Experian is the world's leading global information services company.
During life's big moments - from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence.
We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.
As the world's leading repository of consumer credit data, Experian is transforming data into solutions that facilitate transactions, ensure financial safety and improve the financial lives of millions of consumers around the world.
We have been named by Forbes magazine as one of the "World's Most Innovative Companies" and ranked on Fortune's Best Companies to work for.
**Job Description**:
**Develop, maintain and implement high quality Global Process Optimization roadmaps**
- All end-to-end Purchase to Pay processes, including Procurement, supplier master data maintenance, supplier invoice processing and payment, employee travel expense processing and payment and related corporate credit card and other processes.
- Own and lead the global business improvement strategy for the end-to-end Finance process across all regions, via the creation, ownership and implementation of the Optimization roadmap.
- Create and implement global standard processes by standardizing, streamlining and automating end-to-end global Finance processes at all levels and all regions.
- Ensure that all processes include adequate and well documented controls to satisfy external ICFR compliance requirements and ensure regular design and operational effectiveness reviews.
- Stakeholder management and communication across all levels of the Global Finance organization for end users, to heads of GFS and regional/country Finance directors and CFOs to ensure improvement initiatives are agreed as well as ensuring that they are aligned with the global digital strategy / vision of the business.
- Partner with various Intelligent Automation teams and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Blackbelts and/or use their own LSS skills to create and continually update the Optimization roadmaps and drive prioritization discussions to agree the delivery plan.
**Improve Finance efficiency, productivity and drive cost savings through process improvements within the roadmap framework**
- Work closely with various Finance users and teams across all regions globally, to proactively identify improvement initiatives, best practices, standardization and automation opportunities to be incorporated into the Optimization roadmap and coordinate these initiatives globally to ensure all are aligned with the roadmap priorities.
- Prioritize, initiate and drive the timely and effective delivery of process improvement, standardization and automation initiatives within the end-to-end process across all regions globally.
- Ensure end-to-end process standardization across all countries and regions and review/approve exceptions as appropriate.
- Ensure all changes fully comply with all relevant global standards including Group policies (Finance, IT, GSO etc), external regulation (GDPR, ICFR etc), change control procedures (including user acceptance testing and sign off), CPMO project management guidelines and audit requirements.
- Measure & monitor process-related KPIs and controls against internal and external benchmarks and identify, design and implement these measures and controls where they are absent.
- Monitor and introduce internal process data and external benchmarking / new technologies to proactively identify & prioritize improvement opportunities and continually adjust priorities as new initiatives arise.
- Own the global process maps, documentation and training materials and maintain in line with process improvements/changes and develop and deliver end user process and system training as needed.
**Business advisors and process consultants**
- Use detailed in-depth knowledge of the full end-to-end global process and approved exceptions to provide support, consultancy and strategic / tactical direction for the business globally.
- Single point of contact for all Oracle EBS users globally (up to 1,200 Global Finance users and, in some cases, up to 17,000+ employees) and Oracle Champions to provide support and guidance on the use of Oracle functionality and any requested changes or enhancements.
- Review all change requests relating to projects, improvement initiatives, acquisitions and integrations relevant to the end-to-end process across all regions; coordinate solution design and monitor successful delivery.
- Collaborate closely with the business, GCSS SMEs and the external TCS Oracle development team to develop detailed technical requirements, solution designs and system change requests and ensure timely delivery
- Manage user expectations on deliv