Sr Finance Project Manager / Lean Champion

Job Title

Sr Finance Project Manager / Lean Champion

Degree:

Bachelor

Work Experience:

10-15 years

Travel:

25%

Workplace Types:

Hybrid

Job Description:

Introduction

ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, brings together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, Netherlands, and we have office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Ariz., San Jose and San Diego, Calif., Wilton, Conn., and Hillsboro, Ore.

At ASML we constantly have to ensure that our people, processes and information systems enable us to realize our growth and meet our ambitious business objectives. Recently ASML has launched its transformation towards a Global Business Service organization and ASML's Capability Center is tasked to deliver world-class transactional & operational support services organized around end-to-end (E2E) processes.

To realize our ambition, we aim to implement a portfolio of capabilities and solutions. Doing so we are looking for a Senior Finance Project Manager / Lean Champion who has experience in managing larger scale business transformation projects with a strong background in leveraging lean methodologies.

Role and Responsibilities

The mission of the Senior Finance Project Manager / Lean Champion will be to drive operational excellence for US Finance by performing improvement projects, deploying lean and improving data quality. It includes regional stakeholder alignment with a focus on all ASML US locations by driving change needs and local requirements while maintaining alignment in our global ways of working.

This position will be part of the US Capability Center with a primary focus on ASML US lean development and projects. It will work closely with the team in Veldhoven as well as with the Service Delivery Teams throughout the US. This role will provide guidance to drive continuous improvements and coordinates larger scale business transformation projects. The Senior Finance Project Manager / Lean Champion will lead projects and solutions as well as manage the lean deployment within our US organization. This includes (co-)develop training material, facilitate workshops, coaching on improvements, coaching on supportive leadership, and being a business partner of local leadership.

You will be responsible for:

• Project Management of Lean projects and corporate initiatives.

• Developing project plans and completing implementation processes, including progress tracking, monitoring, change control, testing, and documentation.

• Identifying, designing and implementing global E2E processes / process improvements in order to achieve defined process metric levels.

• Being organized with prioritizing work to manage multiple tasks and stakeholders.

• Performing effectively in a demanding environment with changing priorities and workloads.

• Having a learning mindset to continuously learn and apply new information and skills.

• Creating the Lean continuous improvement and supportive leadership mindset and culture in the organization.

• Design and deliver a lean execution strategy across key horizontal finance processes and regions aligned with organization long term goals and objectives.

• Develop Lean training material and deliver Lean training. Facilitate Lean workshops and support identification and elimination of process waste through application of Lean principles and methods like e.g. Standard work, Value Stream, Problem Solving.

• Coaching on Lean methods, like Daily Performance Management, Problem Solving, Standard Work, 5S.

• Collaborating with other operational excellence related parties in ASML, including Lean Competence Center, Business Performance Improvement, GES Project Management CoE (PIDS), Problem Solving Competence Center, Process Mining Competence Center, Continuous Monitoring.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience as a Project Manager or support personnel.

• Project Management certified (e.g. PMP) preferred

• Lean Black Belt Certified required

• Experience with managing a (project) team.

• Experience with implementation of business transforma