ATR Process Steward - Divisional Accounting

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Maple Grove; US-MA-Marlborough; US-MN-Arden Hills
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Abount the role:
The Process Steward, reporting to the Global Division Finance Steward, is a pivotal role in leading and executing transformation initiatives, advancing the Accounting (ATR) change agenda and roadmap, and will be a key contributor to the overall success of the S4/Magellan requirement gathering process for the US go-live. They will primarily be focused on ATR areas of Finished Goods Inventory, Warranty, and other general accounting topics, helping to drive standardization of global accounting practices within these areas, with an initial lens of transitioning processes into the S4 HANA system for the US launch. The Process Steward will help to map current state division-impacting finished good inventory and warranty process flows and will ultimately propose standardization solutions with an appreciation for the unique commercial and/or product arrangements across Division portfolios, as well as target systematically enhanced processes using new S4 HANA and S4-adjacent technology.
This role will drive both process improvement initiatives by utilizing the global process framework, benchmarking BSC processes against industry standards, and engaging in transformational programs for the end-to-end ATR process, as well as work with the business stakeholders to derive system requirements and possible enhancements for the US S4/Magellan go-live. Process Stewards are adept collaborators, exceptional communicators, and change agents, bringing extensive and diverse accounting experience and knowledge, along with strong stakeholder relationship management skills. This role will approach the task with a lens towards GAAP compliance, strong internal control, and process efficiency.
Key Responsibilities include:

• E2E process expert & facilitator of value improvement: drive improvement initiatives, design and update processes, and present them for approval. They conduct analytics, engage with stakeholders, and consider all dependencies to create comprehensive process designs. They collaborate across regions, divisions, and functions to balance needs and features. They analyze business challenges, apply best practices, and provide compelling business advice. They make recommendations, present project conclusions, and monitor initiatives, providing status updates to leadership
• Magellan: Partners with GPL, Finance Stewards, Magellan, Cross Functional SMEs, etc. to ensure a global template is built for each process including understanding functionality deployed in prior deployments, supporting evaluations of key functionality yet to be deployed, making recommendations for additional functionality needs, and ensuring the solution meets the divisional business needs
• GPL roadmap: The Process Steward serves as the primary point of contact for teams to collect and analyze ideas and improvement opportunities within their respective area of expertise. They support the Global Process Leader in assessing opportunities and prioritizing initiatives to maintain a roadmap of future initiatives within their respective areas.
• Drive change: change champion for the global process framework, responsible for driving change within their end-to-end (E2E) space. They work closely with Finance Stewards to build strong working relationships and understand current practices to address regional, divisional, and functional issues or escalations. The Process Steward leads the implementation of process changes, ensuring successful execution and completion of assigned initiatives. They leverage feedback from various regions, divisions, and functions through the Finance Stewards and serve as a point of contact for improving the end-to-end process
• Performance measures: Collaborates with Finance and Process Stewards, transformational programs, service infrastructure, and service delivery teams to globally align metrics, scorecards, and other performance measures. They review performance metrics to conduct global internal benchmarking, identify potential process improvement opportunities, and determine future changes to introduce new or different metrics. The Process Steward works with all accounting teams and relevant stakeholders on items in their RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) log that present process improvement opportunities and presents them to the GPL and ATR Process Council
• Drive governance: Responsible for driving governance by addressing process and performance escalations according to the escalation matrix. They take appropriate actions to resolve process breakdowns and prioritize improvement initiatives on the roadmap. The Process Steward presents compelling arguments for complex ideas and projects to councils and external stakeholders to persuade them to adopt recommendations when appropriate

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 6+ years progressive accounting experience, with focus on deep experience across many different areas within inventory accounting
• Technical skills: Business process improvement methodology and ERP experience (SAP preferred)
• Functional knowledge: Demonstrated application of accounting principles, local regulations (where required, and ability to ask the right questions) and financial analysis in the ATR/Accounting processes
• Significant knowledge & experience with US GAAP, internal controls, and SOX 404 environment, and how they impact end-to-end process, financial statements, and financial statement assertions
• Strong financial acumen: Proficient in developing business cases for process improvement initiatives
• Strong leadership, executive presence, and influencing skills: Ability to motivate and impact teams (including teams that are not direct reports) working under tight timelines/budgets; ability to influence executive-level stakeholders
• Possesses strong and effective communication skills and the ability to exert influence through collaboration and respect, even without formal authority
• Problem-solving skills: Superior problem-solving skills, ability to influence all levels, flexible communication and consulting/collaboration skills, strong teaming and interpersonal abilities; ability to diagnose process, technology, strategy, or people issues and implement effective solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA, CMA, MBA or equivalent credential
• Global experience: Demonstrated self-awareness of communication styles and cultural differences
• Consultative style: Ability to formulate and articulate a perspective and present it in a way that fosters understanding and alignment on both strategic and tactical issues
• Language: Fluent in English required; additional languages considered an asset
• Travel: Occasional, limited travel to other BSC sites may be required

Quality Requirements

• In all actions, it demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance with the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.
• Assures that appropriate resources (personnel, tools, etc.) are maintained in order to assure Quality System compliance and adherence to the BSC Quality Policy.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.

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