Senior Lead Business Process Finance

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Senior Lead Business Process Finance’s mission is to drive successfully the implementation strategies for the financial modules. Responsible for promoting process excellence with a culture focused on process improvement solutions, the individual will work closely with Corporate and Regions to support and coordinate internal and external teams. The individual will focus on improving efficiency and effectiveness, internal controls, customer service and EBITDA.

Align Project

• Part of the Align Project the individual plays a key role in:

  • Lead the overall financial process: accounting, chart of accounts, inventory, bank, taxes, cash application, roll out & reporting and internal controls

  • Assess current financial policies and procedures (Air Liquide Canada, Airgas & Business Support Center)

  • Enforce standardization and industrialization through the Group FiCoPro Core Model

  • Identify and document business process and system gaps

  • Ensure that workflows incorporate key financial and procurement controls as identified in policies and procedures

  • Determine how cash balance and other balance sheet items should be accounted for into the new system

• Assist the users of the Division and the Region in acceptance testing for the deployment phase

• Work with the Airgas Corporate and project team to:

  • Represent the Canadian Division

  • Be part of the Prep Project in preparation to the conversion to the new ERP

  • Assist in data preparation to convert in the new ERP

  • Manage the transition to the new ERP (hypercare)

Training

• Develop and implement SAP training and Standard Operating Procedure.

• Train, coach and mentor select key power users

• Support the Division trainers and the HR organization in the development of training programs and materials to enhance the customer service skills of employees.

Data & reporting

• Analyze data to identify pain points and areas of improvement. Work with the Data Quality and Process Improvement Expert to organize data clean-up with Corporate and Region

• Working with key finance and procurement leads to identify all types of reporting that will be needed from the new system.

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Are you a MATCH?

• A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field experience is typically required (Minimum 10 years)

• Technical Abilities: Demonstrate excellent, in-depth, and hands-on knowledge of accounting software and processes. Preferably with an understanding of the complexities of multi-currency, multi-site and multi-organizational implementations. Masters concepts, tools and methods related to his/her job, meets or exceeds professional requirements of his/her field of work, keeps abreast of progress in his/her field.

• Customer-oriented and service-driven: Precisely answers customer requests, is attentive to customers, respects commitments towards customers and initiates new ideas in order to meet customer expectations. 

• Strong interpersonal skills: Gets to know others and forms relationships, maintains very good relationships with colleagues, respects the ideas and opinions of others.

• Team Player: Shares knowledge and experience, cooperates and makes self available, listens, gathers information, takes into consideration the needs, ideas, opinions of others.

• Problem-Solving: Identifies problem situations within an appropriate time frame, develops several alternative solutions to problems, analyzes situations and highlights important issues, suggests adequate, valuable and feasible solutions.

• Decision-making skills: Considers all factors before making a decision, makes quick decisions when necessary and accepts the consequences and risks involved.

• Initiative: Initiates actions, ideas or solutions spontaneously on his own, undertakes action without waiting for directives, uses all of his/her resources before asking for help, establishes his/her performance objectives and deadlines.

• Decision Making: Ability to achieve consensus between stakeholders with divergent interests

• Translation: Ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical requirements and vice versa.

• Project Management: Demonstrated experience managing projects.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.