Process Lead, FP&A COE

Purpose and Scope:

This position is responsible for end-to-end design, standardization, and governance of enterprise-wide financial planning processes, ensuring consistency, scalability, and data integrity across regions and functions.

It establishes and embeds driver-based planning frameworks, defines planning granularity, cycles, and methodologies, and drives stakeholder alignment to enable effective decision-making.

The role also acts as the data owner of FP&A governance and management accounting data, while continuously enhancing processes through adoption of new technologies (e.g., AI, automation) to improve efficiency and insight quality.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

1. Global Process Standardization

• Define and implement standardized financial planning processes across the enterprise, including planning cycles, timelines, and end-to-end workflows
• Establish driver-based planning frameworks, including definition of key drivers, modelling logic, and scenario planning methodologies
• Define required planning granularity (e.g., by cost object, activity, resource type) and ensure alignment across regions and functions
• Standardize planning approaches across key domains (e.g., COGS, Payroll, G&A, CAPEX), ensuring consistency in assumptions and methodologies
• Lead stakeholder engagement across FP&A, FBP, HR, DX, and business teams to ensure adoption of standardized processes
• Collaborate with DX to translate planning requirements into system capabilities and enable automation of forecasting and scenario modelling
• Continuously assess and refine planning processes to improve effectiveness, scalability, and user experience

1. FP&A Governance & Management Accounting Control

• Define and maintain enterprise-wide management accounting policies, frameworks, and manuals
• Establish governance over planning and reporting processes, including financial calendars (management accounting, statutory alignment)
• Act as data owner for management accounting within S4, BPC and related FP&A systems, ensuring clear definitions and ownership of master data
• Define and enforce standards for master data (e.g., cost objects, hierarchies, drivers), including structure, definitions, and usage rules
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and completeness across planning, reporting, and analytics processes
• Establish controls and monitoring mechanisms to manage both qualitative and quantitative aspects of financial data (accuracy, consistency, completeness)
• Partner with FBP, GBS, DX and system teams to ensure effective execution and compliance with governance frameworks

1. Process Innovation & Technology Enablement

• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., AI, advanced analytics, automation) applicable to FP&A processes
• Lead the integration of new technologies into planning and management accounting processes to improve efficiency and insight generation
• Drive automation of forecasting, scenario modelling, and reporting processes through collaboration with DX and system teams
• Develop and promote advanced analytics capabilities, including predictive modelling and driver-based insights
• Define future-state process designs incorporating digital and AI capabilities, ensuring scalability and sustainability
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within FP&A processes and governance

1. Cross-functional Leadership & Transformation Support

• Act as a central point of coordination between FP&A COE, FBP, GBS, DX, and business stakeholders
• Drive alignment between global standards and local execution, ensuring practical applicability of frameworks
• Support enterprise-wide finance transformation initiatives, including system implementations and process redesign
• Provide subject matter expertise in planning, management accounting, and process governance to senior stakeholders
• Facilitate decision-making by ensuring transparency, consistency, and alignment of planning and reporting processes