BPE – Standard Chart of Accounts

About the Role

As the Business Process Expert (BPE) - SCOA (Standard Chart of Accounts), you will own the end-to-end global design, governance, and continuous improvement of the organization’s Standard Chart of Accounts within the GBS and wider Finance organization. You will ensure that SCOA remains standardized, scalable, and compliant, acting as a critical foundation for financial, statutory, tax, and management reporting. Acting as the key link between Finance (e.g., Group Controller’s team), GBS operations, and IT/Digital teams, you will define the global blueprint for financial data structures and drive consistency, automation, and data integrity across regions and systems.

Responsibilities

• Global SCOA Ownership: Accountable for the global design and governance of the Standard Chart of Accounts, including defining and maintaining the SCOA structure, hierarchy, and design principles (to L4 level), ensuring consistency across all entities, regions, and systems.
• Change Control and Design Authority: Act as the global gatekeeper for all SCOA changes, defining and operating a robust change control process to ensure updates are assessed, approved, documented, and implemented while safeguarding financial data integrity.
• Process Standardization and Harmonization: Drive and maintain global standardization of account usage and definitions, ensuring alignment with Group accounting policies and eliminating regional deviations or unnecessary complexity.
• SCOA Compliance and Advisory: Provide expert guidance on the correct application of SCOA across Finance and GBS organizations, ensuring consistent and compliant usage.
• Data Model and Master Data Governance: Own financial data structures related to SCOA (e.g., account hierarchies, attributes, mappings), ensuring data consistency, quality, and alignment across ERP systems and reporting tools.
• Systems and Integration Ownership: Ensure SCOA is properly embedded within ERP systems (e.g., S/4HANA) and financial platforms, defining system requirements and collaborating with IT/Digital teams for automation and seamless integration.
• Continuous Improvement and Future-Proofing: Proactively evolve SCOA to address changing business needs, regulatory requirements, and reporting demands, identifying simplification opportunities and driving scalability initiatives.
• M&A and Onboarding Support: Support mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures by defining SCOA mapping and onboarding strategies, ensuring efficient integration of new entities while maintaining global standards.
• Stakeholder Management and Functional Leadership: Collaborate with Group Controller’s team, Regional Finance teams, GBS operations, Tax, Treasury, and IT, acting as the central point of expertise for SCOA-related topics and leading the global SCOA network.
• Documentation and Change Transparency: Maintain high-standard SCOA documentation, definitions, and rule sets, ensuring transparency and accessibility for users.
• Change and Transformation Leadership: Support global transformation initiatives (e.g., ERP implementations, finance digitization), ensuring SCOA implications are assessed and embedded into process and system design, driving adoption with minimal disruption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA, ACCA, or equivalent certification preferred.
• 5-8+ years of experience in financial accounting, reporting, or financial data management within a multinational environment.
• Strong understanding of Chart of Accounts design, financial data structures, and reporting requirements.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting requirements.
• Experience with ERP systems (preferably SAP S/4HANA) and financial master data governance.
• Proven track record in process design, standardization, and finance transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across global and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate business requirements into data, system, and process solutions.
• Experience in leading change, driving adoption, and operating in a matrix organization.

About the Company

With 19,000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto, and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We create iconic ice cream brands that are part of everyday life, bringing moments of joy to millions of people around the world. Everybody loves ice cream. And as the world’s biggest pure‑play ice cream company, we have the scale and ambition to make a real difference.

About GBS

Global Business Solutions (GBS) is TMICC’s trusted transformation partner, delivering innovative and integrated solutions from design to delivery. We develop future-fit capability, expertise, and technologically advanced solutions to unlock speed, simplicity, and operational agility across TMICC’s operations. This is your chance for a ‘once in a lifetime’ career experience, playing a part in the creation of a fully independent, new Ice Cream company and a greenfield GBS organization supporting Europe Supply Chain Finance Processes.

What You'll Get

• Market-competitive pay and performance-related rewards
• Flexible ways of working
• Support for health, wellbeing, and life outside of work
• Time off to rest and recharge
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

Specific benefits vary by location.

Why Join Us?

This is a place for people who are passionate about ice cream and are growth-obsessed—both for the business and for themselves. People who act like an owner and drive our business end-to-end. People who are driven by success to deliver more than we ever thought we could! You’ll thrive here if you value an inclusive culture, with low ego and hierarchy—and if you’re excited to continuously learn and challenge how we work, using digital, data, and new thinking to push us forward.

• Roles with real accountability and visible impact
• Free to move fast, experiment, and challenge how things are done
• Continuous learning and development as the business grows
• Reward linked to performance and contribution

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.