Job Description :

The OH Operations & Transformation Lead is responsible for developing, managing, and leading OH-driven initiatives and finance agenda for the region. The role requires to collaborate well with the markets being supported, service delivery teams and other groups whose expertise required to deliver the projects and the finance functional agenda. The OH Operations & Transformation Lead is expected to help manage changes coming from global initiatives.

The OH Operations & Transformation Lead oversees managing the APAC overhead team in planning and overhead management processes, including payroll. In addition, the incumbent participates in recommending top-down strategy, driving overhead efficiencies, and managing organizational change projects.

The role reports into the OH Global COE Lead and coordinates the work with Senior Stakeholders in the Apac Region.

The OH Operations & Transformation Lead is responsible for the overheads management of Diageo APAC, including centralized and standardized reporting and analysis, forecasting and planning as well as optimising and driving effectiveness and efficiency in the accounting processes.

Will need to build effective relationships with the following key stakeholders: APAC Financial Controllers, APAC senior budget holders (with special focus on indirect cost category owners), Shared Services process leads. The OH Operations & Transformation Lead plays a key role in the embedment of indirect cost management principles across the market.

The OH Operations and Transformation Lead is expected to have a good working knowledge of the various financial activities to be able to embed and drive meaningful change whilst working with key project SMEs.

• Fully owns delivery of APAC yearly budget from all aspects

• Manages wide variety of senior stakeholders, Presidents/Vice Presidents

• Responsible for managing budgets as it relates to OH-driven initiatives and ensures that projects (local or global) are managed within the constraints (time, scope, and quality) available.

Effective management of overheads requires great understanding of drivers across the various parts of the business as well as great relationships to the functional and business heads as well.

Works directly with senior business leaders to shape change interventions and course correct overall change activities i.e.

• Market level: GMs, FDs.

• Above Market: Regional CFOs, Presidents, Global Function VPs, and SVPs.

Be Authentic

• Stands for what is right and important and does what they say without exception, demonstrating the kind of integrity that inspires others.

• Builds and sustains trust through real relationships, challenging effectively wherever necessary.

Constantly Deliver Great Performance

• Finds solutions, influences delivery of results for the business, shapes the future of the business and inspires others to deliver the strategy

• Moves effectively between strategy and operational detail, judging when or where to intervene

Create conditions for people to succeed

• Builds alignment; committed to outstanding teamwork, consistently raises the bar

• Provides the context for others to own the outcome, provides the context for the people to think, decide, act

Financial Control

• Understands and effectively challenges accounting principles and policies, statutory and management reporting, and its application to optimise performance and controls risk

Managing Risk/Regulatory Compliance/Internal Control

• Demonstrates visible leadership to ensuring that the company is setting performance standards that are holistic

• Interfaces with senior management and auditors on control issues and practices, takes a lead in ensuring that robust processes are in place to capture, report on and resolve control weaknesses. Generates insights into issues quickly, prioritises effectively and develops solutions that drive the business forward

Change and Transformation Management

• To use best practice change management and communications strategies to manage the impact of the change on the finance population and its key stakeholders

• To partner with the APAC FPA Operations, Lead, and senior leaders in the GBO to drive the change agenda

• To work with market FDs, RFDs and the regional market transformation Leads to ensure market readiness for the change

• Be able to demonstrate strong personal commitment to the vision

• Leads and delivers change - typically directly accountable to the Programme Sponsor or Business Lead for a Programme.

• Brings strong finance functional leadership. The person should be able to bring best practices in FP&A areas

• Lead & manage OH Team to support all overhead business planning, reporting & analyses. Provide management leadership & support to ensure excellent service level & quality

• Develop top-down strategy for overhead budget allocation and tasking to deliver Group targets & overall shape of P&L

• Develop cost reduction strategies, drive cost savings projects and opportunities with budget owners, play the role of thought partner & functional expert

• Manage the planning & delivery of “cost must do projects” by working closely with budget owners in planning & execution, validate assumptions, ensure adequate follow up & facilitate periodic senior management review

• Drive and manage global recharges by working with functional leads to understand, validate & challenge underlying assumptions

• Actively manage financial risks and opportunities, anticipate potential risks, and provide recommendations to resolve

• Manage accounting close in close interlink with business

• Provide accounting expertise to help management in broad areas of accounting policies & standards

• Provide regular communication, drive overhead review conversations with various levels of management

• Lead compliance & controls in the overhead area, proactively develop or apply policies & procedures to ensure compliance to control procedures and company policies

• Responsibility for planning, coordinating, and supervising the daily operations of human resource functionalities that have a direct impact to the financial statements of the business

• Plays an active role with the program sponsors in driving change initiatives and ensure that initiatives are deployed across related functions within APAC OH and FPA operations working closely with the regional FC Governance team and the transition teams

• To lead and deliver large and complex cross-business change programs within APAC to the GBO entity and vice-versa

• Work closely with financial teams on new initiatives to provide integrated finance requirements to the business teams.

• To focus on the strategic, organisational and people aspects of change management as well as the transactional elements.

• Work with the business to define change requirements, design solutions and process to enable delivery and implementation of the changes to be conducted and aligning it with organisational standards

• Serves as the escalation point for programme change management issues and propose resolutions.

• To apply methodologies appropriate to the change and develop toolkits for others to use to a given change issue.

• Completing program plans to establish objectives, approach, scope, and deliverables to effectively managing programs.

• Establish control registers for risks, issues, dependencies, actions, and decisions.

Qualifications

• University / College Degree in finance / business

Work experience

• Minimum of 10+ years working and management experience in multinational corporate environment, with successful experience in managing and driving change in the following areas:

• Financial and Management Accounting, Controlling & Reporting processes

• Has deep complementary experience in the finance discipline, and / or senior BAU roles and / or evidence of leadership in a Programme Lead role.

• Likely to have depth of change leadership / delivery experience across a number of industry sectors. CPG / FMCG experience highly desirable.

• Will have multiple examples of leading cross functional, multi-market or global change, or integrating change across a number of programmes that are impacting the same target areas at the same time.

• Has broad and deep experience - multiple functions and multiple types of change.

• Most of the experience will be on change leadership and delivery on major programmes or portfolios of programmes.

• Has experience of leading change management on significant initiatives that are NOT focused on systems driven change i.e., BPR, Capability Building etc.

• Ability to work effectively with senior business partners from finance, marketing, sales, and IT functions.

• Accounting standards (IFRS, US GAAP, etc.)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, organized, flexible and able to work effectively across the organization

• Experience on people management

• Effective leadership and coaching skills

• Experience with Shared services process activities

• Project / change management

• Business experience and understanding

• Risk assessment

• Senior stakeholder management

• Advanced knowledge in computer applications: SAP, TM1 and Microsoft Office

Language skills

• Excellent verbal and written English

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

McKinley Hill

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-04-29

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