Global Process Manager, Record To Report (RTR)

About the role

The Global Process Manager at Abbott is responsible for driving global standards, process transformation, and continuous improvement for Record to Report (RTR) processes within SSO Hubs, CFS, and other key stakeholders. This role supports the Global Process Owner for Record to Report and involves leading and delivering global process initiatives across multiple geographies, organizations, and divisions.

Responsibilities

• Act as the global point of contact for respective sub-process areas and provide leadership and process expertise for relevant initiatives.
• Drive end-to-end process governance, working towards global processes and global standards.
• Lead and monitor process transformation and continuous improvement initiatives related to respective sub-process areas, including process standardization, simplification, and technology innovation.
• Collaborate with global and regional teams within and across their functional area as part of a matrixed organization; partner and maintain strong working relationships across CFS, divisional and corporate business partners, BTS, and other organizations and customers.
• Collaborate with ERP program team as needed, align on global standards and support technology deployments.
• Ensure IT solutions and designs meet the needs of the business and that all aspects have been thoroughly tested, documented, and trained.
• Drive the development and maintenance of documentation for harmonized global processes.
• Ensure adequate and timely root cause analysis to understand problem drivers and implementation of necessary corrections and/or changes.
• Establish key global metrics and monitor to measure effectiveness of continuous improvement and identify additional improvement opportunities.
• Drive process automation and intelligent solutions including robotics for the supported process area.
• Support development and preparation of solid business cases for identified continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• BS Degree in Accounting, Finance, or General Management.
• Accounting qualification: ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent.
• 7+ years Finance and Accounting experience.
• Experience executing process transformation initiatives or delivering enterprise systems.
• In-depth understanding of SAP or other major ERP systems capabilities.
• Experience or exposure to Abbott Global Finance Systems such as Cadency and Cora desirable.
• Direct experience or exposure to finance & accounting processes, with strong accounting acumen; FP&A experience desirable.
• High degree of attention to detail and ability to understand complex processes, combined with ability to summarize and convey big picture.
• Strong quantitative and analytical reasoning skills.
• Program and project management experience.
• Ability to collaborate in a cross-functional global team across multiple levels.
• High degree of organizational and time management skills, with attention to detail.
• Team-oriented, strong collaborator.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Benefits

Travel required 10% - 15%.

Pay

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Schedule

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