Finance/business Process Specialist

5 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa PlaceTalent Full time

**Education**:

- Relevant Finance or Business Process Management

**Skills/Experience required**:

- 5 - 10 years of work experience, including experience in either the telecommunications or real estate industries
- Experience working in African markets
- Experience in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities
- Track record of working with cross-functional teams
- Project and change management skills are essential
- Excellent strategic, planning, and problem solving skills.
- Excellent leadership skills with the ability to drive and motivate team to achieve results and influence and inspire action
- Must have process management experience
- Strong analysis skills
- Self-motivated. Ability to work independently and effectively manage priorities

Operations Process Specialist encompasses the management of processes and reporting relating to the following areas:

- Finance Reporting and analysis
- General Ledger Management and month end close
- SOX controls
- Direct cost management
- Taxation
- Intercompany Transactions
- Project accounting

**Essential Duties**:

- Take a key leadership role in working with the markets to clearly define strategic objectives for the finance area at a regional level. These must be clearly aligned to the overall regional strategy
- Identify and prioritize improvement opportunities that will deliver the highest value to the markets, and ensure that these are in line with strategic objectives
- Each strategic initiative will be managed as a project using Lean six sigma methodology, (DMAIC model) with clearly defined problem statement, goals and objectives, clear KPIs, and end to end plans with timelines and responsibilities to ensure initiatives are effectively implemented
- Ensure the BPM improvement process is followed (as per BPM standards) to support the effective implementation of initiatives.
- Develop and maintain a functional process architecture that is intuitive to the end users
- Ensure Process Owner and Process Champion roles have been allocated within each markets functional teams, and that allocated responsibilities are carried out in line with BPM framework
- Ensure all as-is functional processes are documented in the BPM system across the Africa region
- Ensure Process owners timeously review their process and sign them off in accordance with the Promapp system timeframes.
- Ensure that process owners timeously attend to process feedback as reported on in the Promapp system.
- Ensure functional resources are adequately trained on understanding of processes and the utilization of systems
- Ensure that standard reports and dashboards are linked to processes, and that ongoing training us undertaken on the utilization of these reports.
- Support markets to glean insites from such reporting to identify risk and areas for performance improvement
- Support the markets in developing initiatives to improve performance and mitigate risk

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