SAP Finance & Controlling Team Lead

INEOS Inovyn is Europe’s leading producer of vinyls and is among the top three worldwide. With an annual turnover of €5.1 billion, INEOS Inovyn employs approximately 4,300 people and operates manufacturing, sales, and marketing functions in eight countries across Europe.

Main job context, organisation and scope:

The role’s main purpose is to lead the Finance & Controlling team and to provide application support, maintenance, development and project management to ensure that the financial and controlling systems enable the delivery of business requirements in a timely and cost-effective manner, within budget, time and resource constraints.

Important internal and external factors:

• Multi‑national and multi‑business environment
• Ongoing business restructuring and change management
• Integration and harmonisation of business processes & systems across INOVYN
• Working effectively with cross‑functional and geographically dispersed teams
• Close and effective communication with business users and other personnel within the wider IT function
• Delivery of projects and organisational / process changes whilst only having indirect control of some of the key resources
• Complex, changing fiscal requirements with regard to VAT and duties

Overview of key responsibilities & accountabilities:

• Manage, develop and coach members of the Finance & Controlling team to enable delivery of the agreed levels of support for the current, and future, portfolio of financial applications.
• Maintain knowledge of INOVYN’s current financial business processes and be able to understand and apply external fiscal regulations.
• Provide high‑level technical application knowledge and relate to functional understanding.
• Manage and develop the finance applications portfolio:

• Develop strategy in line with the requirements of key business contacts
• Educate key business contacts in the lifecycle & roadmap of main FICO applications
• Implement improvements / upgrades to FICO applications

Skills & Experience:

• University degree or equivalent, with a strong functional finance background including VAT.
• Minimum eight years of SAP FI/CO configuration and implementation experience.
• Expertise in business process analysis, standardisation, and end‑to‑end system support.
• Proven ability to manage change in multinational environments and analyse complex business scenarios.
• Strong line and project management capabilities.
• Advanced problem‑solving and issue resolution skills.
• Holistic understanding of SAP modules and their interdependencies.
• Strong knowledge of SAP FICO integration with modules such as SD, MM, and PM.
• Working knowledge of SAPscript and ABAP for debugging and moderate development.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills, with a results‑oriented mindset and the ability to perform under pressure while maintaining high professional standards.