Finance Transformation Lead

1 day ago

Manchester England, United Kingdom Lonza Full time

United Kingdom, Manchester

Finance Transformation Lead
Location – Manchester/Slough/Cologne/Gelen/Porrino
Hybrid Working Policy
Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. While we work in science, there's no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that's the kind of work we want to be part of.

Role Purpose
The purpose of this role is to support the transformation of the A2D workstream within the organization's SAP S/4HANA ERP implementation. This position is essential to maximizing S/4HANA's capabilities and embedding industry best practices to optimize, standardize, and harmonize processes across Lonza.

What You Will Get

  • An agile career and dynamic working culture
  • An inclusive and ethical workplace
  • Hybrid working policy
  • A variety of benefits tailored to your localality.
  • Access to global benefits via

What You Will Do

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define key performance indicators (KPls) and build effective dashboards and reports.
  • Conduct regular meetings in alignment with the Stream Lead. Address issues or concerns raised by local teams.
  • Design and architect future process solutions within the S4/HANA environment, ensuring alignment with business requirements and industry best practices.
  • Manage the end-to-end implementation of Stream related modules within S4/HANA, including reporting.
  • Develop and execute tests to validate that the ERP system meets requirements
  • Co-Develop training materials and conduct training sessions for key users/ end-users to ensure successful adoption of the S4/HANA solutions
  • Provide ongoing support and troubleshooting to resolve any post-implementation issues

What we are looking for:

  • Strong business and finance background. Operational understanding.
  • SAP knowledge – S/4 Hana would be advantageous but not critical.
  • Ability to lead process improvement initiatives
  • Change management experience
  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment with tight deadlines.
  • Will require travel depending on project needs for a duration of 2-3 weeks up to x2 times per year

Every day, Lonza's products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reference: R71923

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