Business Project Associate Director

• Business Process Management and process conformance analysis using process modeling
• Process Mining, value enablement, and roadmap execution.
• Task Mining, opportunity identification for standardization and automation
• Agile project management to support hyper-automation projects.
• Exposure to AI ML projects to drive process analytics and support business outcomes.
• Experience in change management to ensure project implementation and adoption

Analyse Current Processes:

• Conduct thorough assessments of existing finance processes and team structures. Identify inefficiencies, redundancies, and areas for improvement.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with finance team members to understand their roles, responsibilities, and challenges. Facilitate workshops and meetings to gather insights and feedback.

Redesign Processes:

• Develop and implement streamlined finance processes that enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Apply best practices and innovative solutions to redesign workflows.

Team Structure Optimization:

• Propose and implement changes to team structures to improve accountability and performance.
• Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and aligned with business objectives.

Project Management:

• Lead and manage finance process improvement projects from inception to completion.
• Monitor progress, manage risks and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.

Change Management:

• Support the adoption of new processes and structures through effective change management strategies.
• Facilitate training and resources to finance team members to facilitate smooth transitions.

Continuous Improvement:

• Establish metrics and KPIs to monitor the effectiveness of implemented changes.
• Continuously seek opportunities for further improvements and efficiencies.

Competencies / Skills:

• Ability to review deliverables for completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards.
• Ability to identify process improvements and implement changes; outside thinker.
• Ability to resolve conflict (striving for win-win outcomes); ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity
• Identify pain points, inefficiencies and process re-engineering opportunities
• Develop and implement process maps, workflows, and documentation for redesigned processes
• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methodologies to drive measurable outcomes
• Analyze the business processes, data sources and reports, providing process improvement plans and/or input to solutioning teams
• Build business cases with problem statements, potential solutions, investment, value and ROI to be presented for funding
• Ability to deal with organizational dynamics to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively.
• Strong Influencing skills (sound business and technical acumen as well as skilled at achieving buy-in for delivery strategies)
• Stakeholder management (setting and managing expectations)
• Strong business acumen including the ability to effectively articulate business objectives.
• Analytical skills, Highly Focused, Team player, Versatile, Resourceful
• Ability to learn and suggest changes to Process, Teams which result in synergies and efficiencies.
• Effective under pressure
• Precise communication skills, including an ability to project clarity and precision in verbal and written communication and strong presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Project Management & Requirements gathering
• User interaction / customer service
• Ability to be flexible with job responsibilities and workflow changes.