EMEA Commercial Finance Operations Continuous Improvement Leader

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What you’ll do:

• Leads Continuous Improvement Across CFOps Core Processes
  • Drives Lean‑based improvement initiatives across close, forecasting, RevRec, and project finance processes
  • Identifies root causes of inefficiency, rework, and cadence risk
  • Ensures improvements are practical, adopted, and measurable

  Impact: CFOps execution becomes simpler, faster, and more reliable.

• Protects Cadence Through Process Design
  • Designs processes that withstand peak‑period pressure without heroics
  • Eliminates manual workarounds that threaten close and forecast integrity
  • Ensures improvements never compromise control, auditability, or timing

  Impact: Cadence is protected by design, not effort.

• Partners Across Commercial Finance Pillars on Process Enablement
  • Supports BP, Deal Desk, and COE pillars where process changes improve hand‑offs and execution quality
  • Clarifies interfaces, inputs, and outputs to reduce friction between pillars
  • Does not take ownership of pillar‑specific execution or decision support

  Impact: Cleaner hand‑offs and fewer downstream fixes.

• Drives Automation and System Enablement
  • Works with Finance Systems and IT to translate process improvements into system‑enabled solutions
  • Reduces reliance on spreadsheets, manual reconciliations, and ad‑hoc fixes
  • Ensures solutions scale across countries and ledgers

  Impact: Sustainable improvements embedded in systems, not people.

• Builds Continuous Improvement Capability
  • Establishes Lean ways of working, tools, and mindset within CFOps and broader commercial finance community
  • Coaches teams on problem‑solving and process thinking
  • Creates a repeatable improvement pipeline rather than one‑off projects

  Impact: Continuous improvement becomes a capability, not an initiative.

Decision Rights & Boundaries

• Owns Continuous improvement roadmap for CFOps processes; Lean methodology and execution for process transformation
• Does not own Operational execution of close, forecast, or RevRec; Strategic business partnering or analytics; Deal governance or pricing decisions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Engineering, or a related field
• 7–10+ years of experience in finance operations, accounting, or FP&A environments, with hands‑on delivery of process improvement initiatives
• Proven background applying Lean / Continuous Improvement methods to financial processes (close, forecasting, accounting, or adjacent operational flows) in complex, multi‑country organisations
• Strong background in Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement methodologies applied to finance processes
• Hands‑on experience improving financial close, forecasting, or accounting‑adjacent processes
• Understanding of finance systems and data flows (e.g. SAP‑based environments) sufficient to enable automation
• Ability to translate process improvements into system and control‑compliant solutions
• Strong execution focus and pragmatism — delivers change, not frameworks
• Ability to influence without formal authority in matrix environments
• Structured, data‑driven problem‑solving mindset
• Persistence and resilience when addressing long‑standing inefficiencies

Our Offer:

• Become part of a global company whose mission is to improve the quality of life and the environment through the use of sustainable energy management technologies and services.
• Challenging tasks in a dynamic environment where you quickly take on responsibility and actively shape things
• Work-life balance through flexible working hours and a family-conscious personnel policy
• Structured and careful onboarding within a well-coordinated team where personal commitment and mutual helpfulness come first
• We act ethically. We are passionate, responsible, efficient, and transparent. We keep learning.