Business Process Manager, Finance

**OmniaBio Overview**:
**Role Summary**:
The Business Process Manager (BPM), Finance/Controlling (FI/CO), reports to the Head of IT Manufacturing. The BPM FI/CO evaluates, designs, executes, measures, monitors, and controls financial and controlling business processes relating to the end-to-end value chain, accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial accounting, management accounting, fixed asset accounting, treasury, cost centre accounting, profitability analysis, Inter-company accounting, project systems, and customer intimacy. The BPM FI/CO will ensure that business process outcomes are in harmony with an organization’s strategic goals and will work collaboratively across all departments of the organization to help improve the management of FI/CO business processes with a focus on the entire process from beginning to end, introducing innovation into the process that can impact results, enhance profitability, and assist the organization to meet its business objectives and goals. The BPM FI/CO must have a good understanding of working in a Good Practice (GxP)/Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) regulated environment and strong project management skills. Familiarity with operational excellence tools relating to lean/Six Sigma. The BPM translates business process needs into SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) functional configuration in collaboration with SAP consultants.

**Responsibilities**:

- Business Process Partnership and Engineering_
- Evaluating existing business processes
- Determining and outlining business process improvements
- Evaluates, prioritizes, recommends, and leads improvement opportunities and changes to existing processes
- Defines, drives, and coordinates the development of process improvement initiatives, projects, and activities
- Meets with stakeholders to define operational requirements and goals, designs, and documents workflow, manages user expectations, and works collaboratively across the enterprise
- Analyzing the feasibility of the current business process related to productivity, quality, costs, demand, and time management
- Assisting in budget planning, forecasting, resources allocation, and scheduling process improvement projects
- Coordinating business process improvement strategies with internal stakeholders
- Overseeing all aspects related to the implementation stages of business process improvement initiatives
- Analyzing and monitoring implemented changes to business processes and adjusting as needed
- Training and educating the individuals involved in the management and operation of different business processes
- Studying the present market conditions, forecasting the near future changes, and preparing new business processes accordingly
- Track, monitor, and communicate the hindrance and defects in the FI/CO processes
- Performing ongoing analyses on business processes related to productivity, quality, costs, and time management
- Presenting progress reports and integrating feedback
- Revising and updating procedures and policies
- Provides leadership and problem-solving expertise to effectively work with and influence teams of functional representatives
- Tracks and controls progress, schedules, and associated costs to achieve completion of projects within time and budget projections
- Project Management and Planning_
- Develop project plans
- Manage projects based on agreed project timelines, tasks, and scope
- Escalate timely possible delays and scope creep
- Creating long
- and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines
- Serving as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy
- Communicating with executives or the board to keep the project aligned with their goals
- Performing quality control on projects
- Adjusting schedules and targets on the project as needs or financing for the project change
- Collaborate with project directors and project sponsors to determine project scope and vision
- Identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics
- Conduct interviews to gather user requirements through workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
- Identify and establish the scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define impact, outcome criteria and metrics
- Work with stakeholders and the project team to prioritize requirements
- Research, review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing data collection processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes
- Operational Excellence and SAP FI/CO Functional Management_
- Use lean/Six Sigma tools to eliminate waste and improve effectiveness of FICO processes relating to accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial accounting, management accounting, fixed asset accounting, treasury, cost centre acco