Senior Manager, Finance Operations Business Partnership, Grocery And North America Retail

DESCRIPTION The Finance Operations Business Partnership (BP) team is seeking a Senior Manager who will be a key member of the Worldwide Retail BP team and lead our Grocery and North America Retail teams. This individual will be responsible for driving worldwide Retail procure-to-pay and order-to-cash performance. In this role, you will responsible for developing and maintaining operational and business metrics and targets, driving global operational reviews, as well as owning improvements to achieve targets. As a business partner, you will work daily alongside Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Service Centers, Retail, Retail Finance, Vendors, Tech teams and other operational groups at all levels in a global environment. Complex problem solving and financial analysis skills are required to manage multiple high visibility priorities in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-organizationally and functionally to identify key opportunities in process, technical, and human interfaces and develop and implement plans to capitalize on those opportunities. Measure and monitor success and impacts.
- Identify and drive opportunities for improved cash flow, margin and productivity improvements related to vendor payments and receivables.
- Collaborate and build effective partnerships with system and business owners globally to drive end-to-end improvements.
- Communication effectively with business partners, including financial modeling and analysis, metrics and program updates.
- Solve critical vendor, process and system escalations effectively to ensure root cause analysis and scalable problem resolution.
- Drive improved customer experience while ensuring the highest degree of controllership and customer obsession.
- Identify and quantify financial and operational risks and opportunities
- Establish a regular cadence of engagement with Finance Operations Service Centers and businesses, ensuring process excellence with the highest degree of controllership.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 10+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 10+ years of positions that require analysis and reporting financial results experience
- 8+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 8+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 5+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field