Finance Expert | Global Business Process Specialist - Demand to Pay Area

The Position

We are looking for you to join Roche Services & Solutions.

Roche is a stable and innovative biotechnological company offering exceptional career paths and great benefits for fresh graduates and outstanding professionals.

This is the reason why we are continuously expanding, looking for new talents and supporting remote working during these unusual times. Your health and safety is of paramount importance to us, therefore we are conducting web-based interviews and our onboarding process is running in a virtual setup.

Your day-to-day responsibilities are:

 As Global Business Process Specialist for Demand to Pay you will be a part of the Business Process Management Organization of Demand to Pay. You will support the continuous global harmonization, standardization and automation of the Demand to Pay processes, especially in the areas of Accounts Payable/Invoicing. The role establishes related standard Roche Services and Solutions (RSS) procurement and finance services for the Affiliates, in close cooperation with relevant deployment teams (e.g. myBuy). The role is familiar with the end-to-end process templates and uses them as a basis to define, describe and implement necessary configurations for each service recipient, in consultation with Global Business Process Managers.

As a qualified expert, you: 

• Establish RSS services for Affiliates according to standard process templates and manage related transformation projects

• Identify and drive necessary processes and organizational changes and ensure that such changes are effectively executed

• Support cross divisional process design in alignment with relevant Group functions

• Mediate between different parties (incl. developing solution proposals) and manage escalations, if needed

• Identify and implement global Best Practice solutions for Demand to Pay departments

• Take over responsibility and accountability for (sub-)project implementation activities in Demand to Pay process areas such as Accounts Payable/Invoicing

• Prepare and execute Fit-Gap workshops, describe and align potential exceptions/deviations and drive related IT adjustments.

• Support system screening and User Acceptance Tests, including the localization of the test data when required

• Support the end user training sessions as well as the coordination of the training material localization and training data preparation

• Analyze change impacts by identifying key stakeholders and local sponsors, to map and manage resistance to change. Identify and provide the most important change impacts to the site. Organize and drive Readiness Assessment and Go-No-Go checkpoints together with local site deployment lead.

• Provide status reporting of deployment progress of core activities to Deployment Manager and BPM organization

• Ensure timely communication and reporting to the core deployment team and to relevant GBPMs. Drive identification and resolution of deployment issues with an end-to-end mindset.

What can you bring to our team:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Business or Finance.

• 3+ years Procurement / Supply Chain / Finance / Project and/or Process management.

• Fluent Business English knowledge is mandatory, second language is an advantage

• Excellent understanding of Procure to Pay processes.

• Strong communication, influencing skills and ability to work in complex global networks with international teams.

• Business Process Management skills.

• Knowledge of Procurement solutions: Opentext, Smart by GEP, SAP FI/MM/MDG desired.

• Project Management and/or Agile Methodology certification desired (e.g. SCRUM)

In exchange, we provide you with:     

• Development opportunities: free language courses, a wide range of training & learning opportunities, long-term career opportunities, lateral and vertical career moves, exciting projects & assignments, etc.

• Excellent benefits:  flexibility (Home office days after your probation period), competitive salary and cafeteria package, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, Coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, Themed Holiday party, people-focused company culture, annual bonus in March, etc.

• We offer you a great opportunity in a truly international work environment with high-profile colleagues and excellent in-house learning and networking opportunities, plus an opportunity to make your mark at Roche. We will make sure your daily work will make an impact and you will be able to learn a lot along the way.

Please note that this is a fixed-term