R2R Global Process Delivery and Change Manager in Macclesfield

AstraZeneca is one of the world’s most exciting bio-pharmaceutical companies. We’re on a mission to turn ideas into life-changing medicines that improve patients’ lives and benefit society. We are active in over 130 countries and employ over 83,000 people. We are an innovation-driven biopharmaceutical with over 60 years of experience.

Global Finance Services (GFS) is AstraZeneca Finance’s financial services division covering Record to Report (including Controlling), Purchase to Pay, Contract to Cash, Performance and Management Reporting and Tax delivered from our in-house and BPO service centres located across the globe. GFS was established to support AstraZeneca’s Finance function on a transformation journey with the objective of delivering excellence in financial operations and insight through global simplification and standardization.

Record to Report’s (R2R) 2030 vision is to seamlessly deliver trusted financial reporting through scalable and sustainable R2R process excellence. GFS R2R will play a key role in supporting the delivery of the R2R strategy, ensuring the transformation changes are effectively embedded within our processes and operating model.

We are currently searching for candidates in the GFS Global Record to Report Team. This team drives the global process delivery and oversight for the R2R process tower, translating the R2R strategy into clear operational deliverables. The role holder will report to the Controlling and Standardisation Associate Director and will work closely with the R2R Global Process Delivery Director (GPDD), the Record to Report Leadership team, the Global Process Owner team (GPO), and various finance teams.

Typical Accountabilities:

• Supporting the delivery of global processes by working through a matrix model with members of the various sites, setting deliverables and outcomes to ensure global consistency within the process tower.
• Working alongside the R2R GPDD and GPO teams to drive the standardisation agenda.
• Act as the critical interface and provide technical and functional support regarding the process to the relevant technology strategy and broader business change implementation teams.
• Drive the R2R global service and performance management processes utilising a robust governance model.
• Provide deep analysis of core process and operational data.
• Working collaboratively with the GFS R2R Leads to identify and develop key measures and analytics across the R2R processes.
• Leverage process and accounting knowledge to deploy new tools/visualisations.
• Provide expertise to complex issue resolution within delivery centers.
• Share process expertise and act as a point of contact for internal stakeholders and projects.
• Ensure project work demand is anticipated, managed, resourced and communicated effectively.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Energetic, proactive and self-motivated qualified finance professional.
• Solid understanding of finance and accounting principles.
• Expertise in the end-to-end R2R process.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering process optimization.
• Cross boundary experience including building relationships remotely and cross-culturally.
• Experience of effectively operating in a global organization.
• Track record of driving simplification and continuous improvement.
• Experience of using lean concepts and digital tools.

Desirable: Project Management experience.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office.

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics.