C&C GPO Process SME

This is an exciting time to join and help shape the future of the world’s newest and largest consumer healthcare company, that’s 100% focused on everyday health. Come and be part of something special.

Our Haleon Global Capability Centre (GCC) is rapidly expanding with exciting new positions being created in multiple functions.

At Haleon GCC we bring global value to our organisation, delivering complex enterprise solutions while driving digital transformation and innovation. The Finance, Digital & Technology, HR and Procurement functions are co-located, and work with colleagues and partners around the world. The increasing range of activities and roles based in the GCC will offer you great potential for career progression and take part in shaping the future of the GCC.

Why you in this role?

Are you looking for a global role to accelerate your growth and development? We have an exciting opportunity for you to explore.

You’ll be part of the Global Financial Services team and primarily focused on managing and optimizing Record to report processes across the organisation. You will identify a vision and prioritise objectives that support our Haleon finance function on our journey to World Class.

You’ll enjoy the challenge of a fast-paced, problem-solving environment that requires you to think and act quickly to address strategic and day-to-day business priorities. Close and control (C&C) Finance team is a high professional, high performing Global team, responsible for managing and maintain financial reporting to support business decisions.

As an FMCG business, Haleon operates in a highly dynamic environment and our activities, at the heart of the global supply chain, are fundamental to getting ahead of our competitors as we react quickly to market opportunities and support strategic business change.

This is a role with a global remit that requires the ability to effectively influence teams and stakeholders across different countries and levels.

This is an opportunity to transform our function and the experience they provide is fit for future.

On a daily basis, we are required to react rapidly to emerging issues that require swift resolution to keep the supply chain moving, whilst ensuring compliance with management, financial, legal & fiscal requirements.

As a team, we strive to stay in front and improve our stakeholder experience by being proactive, agile & curious, setting ourselves stretching targets, actively partnering, and continuously improving while keeping the fundamentals right.

The Haleon C&C GPO

The role of GPO is to act as Champion, Owner, and Custodian of the Global ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) template from a R2R and Controllership Finance perspective. In doing so, you and the GPO team are also responsible for the template process maintenance, design and the documentation of that process design. You will be accountable to the business for the definition and operational effectiveness ensuring the processes within your scope are designed to ultimately drive business benefit and to make it easier for employees utilizing these processes.

Assessing external benchmark and best practice trends, as GPO you will support definition of the Haleon process vision, strategy, objectives and performance goals, ensuring the process vision is aligned with business and IT strategies. You will assess and evaluate the operating model required to effectively execute the processes within Close and Control Finance as well as understand the wider End to End Finance Operating Model (in partnership with stakeholder groups within and outside Global Finance Services). Additionally, Process Improvement and Automation Initiatives (PIA) form an integral part of the role where focus is on Transforming our Finance processes to ensure reduction in manual work along with robust controls framework.

Job description

C&C GPO is heavily involved in Process improvement and Transformation initiatives. The Incumbent is expected to play a key part in ensuring the success of Key Transformation projects as GPO Close & control PIA initiatives.

The responsibilities will include – but non-exhaustively:

1) Define and refine the solution (i.e. system, process & data) by:

• Continually seek to standardize and simplify the ERP template and supporting processes to reduce ongoing business and implementation costs, whilst ensuring the template and process remains compliant with any legal, fiscal or regulatory requirements.
• Develop and present business case to relevant governance bodies for review and approval, ensuring system design meets business requirements.
• Partner with the business to prioritize template/ process change requests, assessing those changes to determine feasibility, business benefit and business prioritization.
• Ensure that global template solution documentation is accurate and current.
• Maintain an oversight and support where necessary on training material (LSOPs, ebooks, Taxonomies etc.)

2) Transform Finance processes by driving Initiatives for Process Improvement and Automation and support the vision and help to define the roadmap to drive business benefit, continuous improvement and ease of process use for the end user.

• Define how Haleon will move from the current state to the desired future state (for the processes in scope) and drive continuous improvement.
• Drive change initiatives with relevant stakeholders across Finance teams, technology, Automation teams and other stakeholders.
• Prepare and review related process documentation, lead change management and impact analysis discussions with senior stakeholders, impacted users and reviewers.
• Gather feedback and deal with escalations effectively, prepare remediation plans as required.
• Embed and role model the Haleon culture and behaviours.
• Be an ambassador for Global Finance Services (GFS) and C&C

3) Embed and grow organizational capability through maintenance of training and process documentation and monitoring end-user support effectiveness.

4) Optimise extraction of solution value by:

• Monitoring operational efficiency and effectiveness KPIs (baseline and targets) – partnering with business and operational teams to take corrective action, as required
• Assessing process adoption and process adherence / compliance for relevant processes, working with Business Leads to trigger appropriate interventions, as required
• Verifying that business case benefits are realised for system, process and data related improvements.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant/Cost Accountant/ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA

Basic Requirements

• Finance professional with 12-15+ years of experience in Accounting and Finance Transformation
• Experienced finance professional with Journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Period End Close and Controllership capabilities
• Exposure to Systems like SAP, Reconciliation tools like Cadency (Trintech), Blackline, Power BI etc.

Due to the nature of the role and what is needed, we are looking for someone with this experience and skills:

• An excellent understanding of aspects of the financial month-end review process, including reporting requirements, variance analysis, planning & forecasting, and reporting of financial results for an entity or a cluster of smaller entities. This includes commentary on P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow for accuracy and completeness.
• Experience of having worked in a Control/SOX environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with senior stakeholders, influence and be able to challenge them diplomatically at various levels, question the status quo, and ensure the delivery of defined business outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to analyze complex data sets to drive meaningful insights.
• Ability to think strategically at a taxonomy/operating model level as well as at a detailed process-specific level. Capable of staying ‘close to the ground’ to understand the ‘real’ end-user experience and perspective.
• Understanding of Haleon finance processes.
• Understanding of SAP ECC/ERP/CERPS (Master Data Elements & Chart of Accounts) and BISON management reporting structures.

What personal attributes would you need to have?

We believe these are key for successful delivery as a team.

• A growth mindset with the ability to challenge the status quo in an effective manner.
• Being Agile, speaking up and raising risks/flags on time, appetite for risks.
• Ability to collaborate and influence others with a sense of empathy, being able to put your feet in the shoes of others.
• An excellent team player with an ‘in it together’ attitude, rolling up sleeves to get on with whatever is required with a high degree of can do and flexibility.
• Be curious! Ask questions and seek for solution.
• Demonstrate outside-the-box thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Make it happen attitude.

Preferred Requirements:

• Fluency in Haleon finance processes and organizational structure.
• Experience of working with outsourced BPO providers and technology/system providers.
• Ability to understand data privacy aspects of the business process.
• Knowledge of role design / segregation of duties and internal control requirements.
• Subject matter expertise of the SAP template and integration points with other process areas.
• FMCG industry experience.
• GPO experience.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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