Corporate Planning

1 month ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Full time

The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm. Finance & Planning supports the execution of the firm’s strategic objectives through the management of the planning process, firmwide reporting and analytics and insights into the firm’s business plans and budgets. This pillar also includes the CF&O, EO and Engineering divisional CFOs, who are strategic finance advisors helping the firm and the non-revenue divisions achieve commercial financial opportunities. 
Product Finance is responsible for the overall governance and proactive management of the firm’s non-compensation expenses. Spend Management encompasses the functions responsible for managing all aspects of the firm's spend with third parties - advising commercial agreements and driving operating efficiency. Departments include Strategic Sourcing, Procure to Pay, Integrated Travel and Expense, Infrastructure and Transformation and Sustainable Operations. Operational Risk & Resilience drives firmwide Operational Risk programs along with second line teams and implements required changes within CPM. The CPM Engineering team provides engineering solutions that enable the firm to manage third-party spend, data and automation, plan budgets, forecast financial scenarios, allocate expenses and support corporate decision making in-line with the firm’s strategic objectives.
Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. This role sits within the Spend Management pillar, within Product Enablement & Transformation.
The Product Enablement & Transformation team is a global team who enable Goldman Sachs to actively and effectively manage our vendor population, supply chain effectiveness, travel & expense processing & Source-to-Pay activity through the platforms we maintain within our architecture. Through excellent functional, project, program, and change management skills, along with a bias for becoming the subject matter or technical expert, this team seeks to fulfil the vision of our clients and partners with employees across platforms like Ariba, S4, Concur & Fieldglass. The Product Enablement & Transformation team work closely with senior leadership, process owners, Spend Management Engineering and our vendors to drive supply chain value and achieve Corporate Planning & Management’s objectives & key results
The role requires collaboration with different functions across the firm on a regular basis, an ability to work independently, and ability to interact with senior professionals across the firm. It also entails in-depth analysis and reporting for senior management, requiring diligence and a commercial mindset. Goldman Sachs is embarking on a journey to uplift our contract lifecycle management process. This includes delivering a contract repository, leveraging standard templates/clause libraries to assist in streamlining contract negotiation and execution and utilize inbuilt AI tools to abstract key information to be used both for risk assessment and commitment management across our third party vendors. Initially, the role will be to create and gain consensus on the business case, building a detailed program plan, showing funding needs, resource needs, benefits, risks and opportunities. You will partner across Legal, Sourcing, Operations, Compliance, Tech Risk and other functions to drive consensus and champion the vision for the program. 
You will continue to partner with Sourcing, Legal and iCertis to stabilize the operational adoption, continue to enhance and develop the product and drive meaningful impact in this space 
Own Product strategy for our Contract Lifecycle Management Product, primarily driving the platform strategy of iCertis, but also partnering across products, enriching data with other data from the data lake to deliver a seamless product experience.
Focus on user experience, seeking to refine the product and drive user-centric platform strategies to make the buying process seamless, orchestrated, controlled and transparent.
Adopt data-driven decision making to assist in driving application adoption and success.
Pro-actively work with the wider team on the day-to-day technical queries related to system logic and perform defect/data analysis as well as support specific audits, internal and external.
Communicate progress and relevant updates to project drivers, relevant functions and maintain key documentation of approvals where required
Strong integration experience with other modules within SAP (Ariba, S4 HANA, Guided Buying, Concur)
~8+ years’ experience in Source to Pay, Program Management, Operations or similar.
~ Have led at least one large scale platform deployment project in Professional Services space. 
~ Knowledge on Agile change management and platforms like JIRA and Confluence or similar would be beneficial.
~ Flexible and focused work ethic to deliver in a global organization delivering both organizational and technical system changes.
~ Strong analytical skills and bias for using data to make decisions and confirm/set direction. 
~ Excellent communication skills and ability to interact effectively with Cross-functional teams & present to senior leadership.
~ Ability to work across hierarchies and geographies, with flexible working style. 
~ Experience in Financial Services industry will be beneficial but not required.
~ At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. 
We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
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