Finance Platforms Lead - Purchase to Pay (PtP)

Digital & Technology Team (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalizing and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!

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The Finance Platform Lead owns features/Finance Platforms from Technology perspective, understands Global Finance needs and converts them into solution specifications in line with overall systems architecture, standards and roadmaps.

Your responsibilities would include:

• ensuring consistency of the overall solution

• working with the Global Process Owners to understand, elicit, analyze, document and communicate program and platform/application requirements

• providing guidance and coaching to team members

• managing the quality of the solution and technical debt

• ensuring that Features/Finance Platforms are driving implementation of standardized business processes, delivering business value through efficiency and a common way of working

• ensuring that key competencies and expertise needed to develop, build, deploy and support the product are embedded in the team

• ensuring adherence to HEINEKEN standards and best practices (Quality, Compliance, Data Standardization, IT Controls)

• understanding and interpreting financial information to support value-driven decisions and clearly articulating organizational impact

• conducting continuous improvement analysis on existing applications and architectures, identifying optimizations

• verifying implementation to ensure systems are delivering expected business value and meeting requirements

• maintaining and building relationships to anticipate and shape internal customer and stakeholder demands

• raising the bar by continuously seeking improvements and staying up to date with external trends

• understanding the end-to-end service beyond just technical components, including user impact

• supporting the development of long-term strategy aligned with HEINEKEN Global Finance, HEINEKEN, and D&T principles

• maintaining, improving and executing the support model to meet SLAs for Features/Finance platforms and ensure business satisfaction

You are a good candidate if you have:

• practical experience in managing IT application maintenance and development – min. 7 years

• excellent communication skills (both verbal and in writing): ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical people

• analytical and quantitative skills, with a highly structured approach

• technical background with experience in one or more IT areas

• ability to enable the corporate strategy

• team player skills and is able to work effectively at all levels of the product teams with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus

• ability to identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and "truths" and bring an open mind to understanding and build on the views of others

• ability to work in teams and work dedicated for a team

• understanding of technical specifics

• ability to be the liaison between senior business and IT stakeholders

• ability to promote a culture of innovation that encourages idea sharing and creative thinking

• flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change

• strong interpersonal skills, relationship management and negotiation skills, strong verbal and written communication skills

• competence to develop self and others through continuous learning, sharing best practices, knowledge and expertise

• ability to explain complicated subjects in clear and simple business language

• experience in managing relationships with external consultants/parties

• experience in Purchase to Pay (PtP):
  - experience with Invoice Management platforms such as Basware, SAP IM, Esker as a must, experience in procurement, payments, t&e (travel & expense) reporting, and maintenance areas as a plus
  - understanding of it systems supporting PtP processes such as erp, procurement platforms, and supplier management systems
  - knowledge of PtP-related processes with focus on invoice management
  - understanding of data and security standards to ensure secure data handling across systems
  - experience with API  integration and custom development for PtP workflows.

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