Senior Global Finance Process Owner

We are looking for an experienced finance professional to join our Global Finance Operations team as a Senior Global Finance Process Owner. 

This is a key role in a global finance organisation, with ownership of finance and royalty-related processes across accounting, reporting, process governance, and continuous improvement. The role requires a strong accounting foundation, solid business understanding, and the ability to drive initiatives across functions, countries, and systems.

Our team acts as global process owners for finance and royalty processes, including accounting and reporting to the group's Corporate Finance team. We work closely with local finance teams, Corporate Finance, IT, solution architects, business stakeholders, and external partners to ensure that our processes are robust, compliant, efficient, and scalable. 

The company currently operates on SAP ECC, with Analysis for Office, BlackLine, and Hyperion HFM integrations. Experience from ERP transformation or transition projects would be highly valuable. 

The Role 

As Senior Global Finance Process Owner, you will be responsible for maintaining, improving, and developing global finance processes with a particular focus on accounting, royalty-related processes, reporting, and finance process governance. 

This role is well suited to someone who combines strong finance and accounting knowledge with a structured, project-minded approach. You should be comfortable driving topics forward, aligning stakeholders, challenging existing ways of working, and setting clear expectations toward colleagues, team members, and business partner  

Key Responsibilities 

• Act as global process owner for selected finance and royalty-related processes. 

• Ensure that processes support accurate accounting, reporting, compliance, and operational efficiency. 

• Maintain and develop process documentation, accounting logic, controls, and reporting requirements. 

• Drive finance process improvement initiatives across countries, functions, and systems. 

• Translate finance and business requirements into clear process and system requirements. 

• Work closely with IT solution architects and other technical stakeholders to define business needs, test solutions, and support implementation. 

• Identify process gaps, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities. 

• Participate in projects related to finance systems, ERP changes, process standardization, automation, and reporting improvements. 

• Communicate expectations, decisions, timelines, and responsibilities clearly across stakeholders. 

• Contribute to building a modern, scalable, and well-controlled finance process landscape. 

Skills and Experience Required  

Must Have  

• Strong accounting knowledge and solid understanding of financial reporting processes. 

• Experience from finance operations, financial controlling, process ownership, or similar roles. 

• Experience working in an international or global organization. 

• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal. 

• Ability to drive initiatives, manage stakeholders, and move topics forward independently. 

• Structured and project-minded approach to problem-solving and execution. 

• Ability to translate finance requirements into process and system requirements. 

• Experience with modern finance, reporting, analytics, or automation tools. 

Nice to Have  

• Experience from ERP transition, ERP implementation, or finance transformation projects. 

• Experience with SAP finance processes, master data, accounting flows, and reporting structures. 

• Experience with royalty accounting, intercompany processes, revenue-related processes, or complex financial flows. 

• Experience working with Corporate Finance, shared service centers, local finance teams, and IT teams. 

• Experience with process documentation, controls, governance, and change management. 

• Familiarity with analytical tools, BI/reporting solutions, workflow tools, or finance automation platforms. 

Key Behaviours  

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability. 

• Curious and analytical, with the ability to understand both details and the broader process landscape. 

• Confident in expressing expectations and challenging stakeholders constructively. 

• Able to build trust and collaborate across cultures, functions, and seniority levels. 

• Comfortable working with complexity, legacy processes, and incomplete documentation. 

• Pragmatic, solution-oriented, and persistent. 

• Able to balance operational stability with continuous improvement.