Global Process Expert - Purchase to Pay

Job Description The Global Process Owner (GPO) Team are responsible for finance transformation and standardisation at Informa. Part of Global Business Services (GBS), the teams' strategic objectives include driving process efficiency, global consistency, implementing best-in-class technology and ensuring adequate control and governance is in place, to support the Informa business needs. The GPO team will support large scale change projects including integrations, mergers and acquisitions, whilst also helping to drive a continuous improvement mindset across the shared service centre teams.

The Global Process Expert (GPE) is responsible for the end to end process in their assigned process stream. They must lead and facilitate their process community to ensure that the needs of the business are being identified, evaluated and prioritised. The role will report to the P2P Global Process Owner.

Key responsibilities

The P2P Global Process Expert is a hybrid role (3 days London, Victoria/2 days from home) and is expected to assume the following key responsibilities, amongst others:

• Ownership of GBS's Purchase-to-Pay sub-processes, including Vendor Master data management, Purchasing, Invoice Processing, Expenses management and Payment.
• To be accountable for assuring successful implementation of standard global processes, evaluating end-to-end performance and affecting necessary design or execution adjustments.
• Own P2P Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training material, ensuring they are kept up to date as changes are implemented.
• To provide insight and direction regarding Informa’s use of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems (SAP & Oracle) for P2P processes.
• Ownership and optimisation of additional platforms used by GBS to support P2P processes (e.g. ServiceNow, OCR technologies etc…).
• Drive implementation of process and technology changes that support the appropriate blend of automated and manual process solutions.
• Maintenance and prioritisation of the P2P Road map ensuring that a central repository of initiatives is logged and maintained.
• Benchmarking internal processes against external best practices to determine gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Engaging with global P2P community and divisional financial controllers and other key stakeholders to ensure P2P processes are optimal to meet expectations.
• Monitor P2P performance indicators to help analyse non-compliance with its overall delivery and quality performance metrics.
• Help identify corrective actions when metrics indicate non-compliance, with the relevant other parties. Information Classification: General
• Take an active role in key Global Support projects, initiatives, acquisitions, or disposals that impact the P2P processes and teams.
• Input into the longer-term P2P GPO and GBS strategy.
• Ensure a strong level of governance and control in place for P2P processes, support on audit including any global remediations.

Requirements

• In depth knowledge and understanding of the mechanics of the P2P process stream within Shared Service Organisations and how these fit into the wider global environment.
• Continuous improvement track record
• Finance Transformation experience.
• Experience working with Oracle and other partner platforms (such as Kyriba, OCR technologies) preferred.
• Excellent communicator, interpersonal skills, and stakeholder management
• Knowledge of working in global business environment, proficient in producing documentation, frameworks, and process flows.
• Knowledge of dealing with mergers, acquisitions, and disposals.
• Experience working with large finance transformation projects.
• Results orientated with change mindset.
• Experience working within established Project management (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile) and/or process improvement approaches (e.g. Lean Six Sigma) preferred.