Sr Manager, Finance Procurement Operations

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We are looking for a stunning finance leader to manage Finance Procurement Operations (FPO) for our MarComms Finance Business Partner team. The ideal candidate has experience leading and developing a large global team, a strong understanding of accounting treatment, experience supporting efficient S2P (Source to Pay) workflows, can drive innovative process improvements to scale, has the courage to question the status quo, ability to influence FPO strategies, and is highly skilled at developing strong cross-functional relationships with business partners across various functions (FP&A, Accounting, Business Stakeholders and IT). This position will be a hybrid in-office position (Tuesday-Thursday) based in Los Angeles.

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This role leads a team of Finance Procurement Operations Business Partners who work closely with the following cross-functional teams:

• Business stakeholders – FPO is an embedded resource that understands the nature of the business they are supporting and provides the following procurement support: reviewing and re-negotiating contracts, supplier management, creating purchase orders, reviewing invoices, expense reporting, and being an active contributor to various teams

• Accounts Payable – FPO BPs create POs and provide non-PO invoice coding to enable timely and accurate invoice processing.

• FP&A – FPO plays a role in ensuring accurate coding to provide meaningful reporting, track actuals effectively to budget including monitoring and explaining material variances and identify opportunities to use data to drive informed business decisions. 

• Accounting – FPO facilitates a timely and accurate month-end close by owning the PO accrual process and explaining variance drivers.

• Systems – FPO participates in designing, simplifying and automating finance and payment workflows as well as partnering on system enhancements to automate workflows to scale.
   

Responsibilities Include:

• Manage a team, including hiring, promoting, performance management, project delegation, coaching and development

• Partner closely with FinTech and FP&A teams to manage S2P and Billing, to ensure accurate and meaningful reporting, ongoing training, maintenance and system enhancements

• Review and provide spend analysis to executives, including historical, left-to-spend, actuals, vendor trends, etc.

• Establish ledger coding structure and hierarchies to ensure the most meaningful tagging of spend for management reporting and decision-making 

• Oversee the month-end close process, ensuring accuracy and completeness of expense accrual and reconciliation of accounting and planning systems; includes budget-to-actuals variance analyses

• Develop team goals and objectives, including measuring key results and building accountability 

• Review workflows to scale for growth, including process review, enhancement and/or automation in procure to pay, systems and controls

• Partner with multiple stakeholders, including Business Stakeholders, Accounts Payable, Legal, Tax and Corporate Accounting teams, to ensure accurate coding and classification of expense for external reporting, meaningful internal reporting, timely payments to vendors and consistency in workflows across regions

Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant experience in Procurement, Accounting, or Finance

• 3+ years of experience managing teams, including direct leadership of managers

• Proven experience building processes and scaling workflows

• Inclusive leader capable of flexing to different styles and providing tailored managerial support

• Outstanding strategic skills and critical thinker with th