Head of Shared Service Centre
Summary
Leads global finance operations for a car-dealer technology company, owning billing, collections, accounts payable, and procurement while driving automation and cash-flow improvements.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead and define the global strategy for Transactional Finance across Billing, Credit & Collections, AP and Procurement
- Own end-to-end operational performance of Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes
- Drive working capital optimization including DSO, DPO, billing cycles and cash conversion
- Deliver transformation and automation initiatives across finance operations and supporting systems
- Ensure robust governance, financial controls and compliance across all transactional processes
- Act as senior escalation points for complex financial and operational issues
- Lead, develop and performance manage a global leadership team of functional heads
- Partner with CFO/COO, Deputy CFO and senior stakeholders to provide insight on cash, revenue realisation and operational efficiency
- Collaborate with Commercial, FP&A, Controllership and Technology teams to drive performance and alignment
- Key stakeholder in groupwide ERP systems rollout, supporting delivery of the new platform and ensuring processes and governance are in place for the go-forward model.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Billing accuracy and reduction in re-bills or disputes
- Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and cash collections performance
- Working capital improvement across O2C and P2P
- Invoice cycle time and transactional processing efficiency
- Cost-to-serve of finance operations
- Automation and transformation delivery milestones
- Audit outcomes, control effectiveness and compliance metrics
Knowledge and Experience
- Extensive experience in global finance operations / transactional finance leadership
- Deep expertise in Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes
- Proven track record of leading large, multi-functional teams through senior leaders
- Strong experience in finance transformation, automation and process improvement
- Strong understanding of working capital, cash flow and operational finance metrics
- Experience in SaaS or recurring revenue environments (desirable)
- Experience with ERP and CRM systems (e.g. NetSuite, Salesforce)
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