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Regional Process Owner (APAC), Finance & Controlling (FI/CO) - BYD

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Company Description

With over 100 years of experience, Sika is a specialty chemicals company with a globally leading position in the development and production of systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protection in the building sector and automotive industry. Sika has subsidiaries in 103 countries around the world and, in over 400 factories, produces innovative technologies for customers worldwide. In doing so, it plays a crucial role in enabling the transformation of the construction and vehicle industries toward greater environmental compatibility. With more than 33,000 employees, the company generated sales of CHF 11.2 billion in 2023.

We are seeking an experienced Regional Process Owner to become part of our APAC SAP Business Team. If you're a driven self-starter and enjoys the dynamic atmosphere of a multinational environment, please join us.

Job Description

Purpose of this position:

  • Successful SAP ByD template Rollout projects with high level of business satisfaction and acceptability by achieving business benefits.
  • Standardized processes across all business domains within Region APAC in alignment with the company’s processes and legal requirements
  • Parallel project activities are in alignment with the overall strategy & objectives with regard to processes standardization, data harmonization, business processes documentation
  • Increasing the regional organization’s overall efficiency and effectiveness whilst continuously improving business processes
  • Liaison with all relevant stakeholders like Regional SAP Team, Regional Organizations (Regional Operations, Finance), Corporate Process Governance and the local Business team (Local Process Owners)

Job Duties

  • Collaborate with local project teams, regional Process- and SAP team in SAP template projects (Rollouts, Integrations) in Region APAC (ByD).
  • Approve TO BE business processes and implement global template solutions with specific localizations for legal requirements and local processes
  • Lead and support regional business process changes and improvement projects
  • Collaborate and support the Region (APAC) in global SAP initiatives, such as upgrades or other technology changes
  • Execute business fit-gap analysis, identify gaps, scope changes and review alternatives (in collaboration with corp./regional SAP Consulting Organization)
  • Identifying, documenting and testing new regional template scenarios
  • Educating local Business team members on best practices
  • Support local teams for training initiatives (Train the Trainer) and Change Management
  • Identify gaps in existing procedures, review process performance, effectiveness and efficiency of specific core processes and intervene and remediate accordingly
  • Single-point ownership and first contact for local Process Owners
  • Support Operations of SAP (Ticketing)
  • Support Data Migration and Global Master Data Governance

Key Responsibilities

  • Design business processes considering the best interests of the Organization and the viability of execution (i.e. SoW of a new SAP implementation / Process design in case of required changes)
  • Ensure application/implementation of BYD Template incl. the defined standard processes.
  • Take decision in the area of the processes (in alignment with global template processes), such as
    • Finance & Controlling
    • Reporting, Closing and Analytics
    • Legal requirements for Finance & Taxation
    • Cross functional topics with other supporting functions (including but not limited) such as order fulfillment, finance and controlling, and reporting
  • Own the business processes defined as Regional Blueprint
  • Management of external consulting partners
Working Relationships

  • Internal:
    • Regional Organization like Regional Finance etc.
    • Regional SAP Consulting Team
    • Regional SAP Business Teams (EMEA and AMERICAS)
    • Regional IT team
    • Local Project- and IT teams
  • External:
    • Consulting partners
Qualifications

Competence, Skills

  • Several years Business experience related to the Business Processes in the Area of responsibility
  • Knowhow of the SAP BYD FIN setup and processes (added advantage for BYD SCM)
  • Exposure to new technologies and innovation topics
  • Hands-on personality: display energetic and self-motivated
  • Influential personality to get his/her ideas across, pragmatic and strong willingness to get the job done with high level of motivation, networking, problem solving, and a ‘can do’ attitude
  • Capable of interacting with stakeholders at all levels, able to gain respect, trust and confidence of management, partners and team members
  • Capable of articulation the precise nature of any given situation appropriately to the target audience whether technical or non-technical
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision on +3 projects/assignments simultaneously without scarifying quality
  • Excellent communication skills