Global Financial Controls Head

**Global Financial Controls Head - S/4HANA**

Location: Luton / Macclesfield / Gothenburg / Sodertalje

**Global S/4HANA Programme**

We are one purpose-led global organisation. The enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world.

AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large scale transformation of the IT landscape by the replacement of current ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems with one global solution.

Our current technology is used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes. This programme provides the opportunity for real transformation and to shape the way of working globally for many years to come.

This programme requires the best. Whether it be the technical skills, business understanding or change leadership, we want to ensure we have the strongest team deployed throughout. The programme seeks to deliver a world class change programme that leaves all employees with a fuller understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of our global company. This programme will provide AZ with a competitive edge, to the benefits of its employees and patients.

We now have an opportunity for a Global Financial Controls Head - S/4 HANA to join the programme. Accountable for the development of Business and IT controls in full alignment with the AstraZeneca Financial Controls Framework and the successful delivery, adoption and operation of respective controls, embedded across all Enterprise Processes and Business Functions impacted by the S/4 HANA implementation. Providing strategic direction to Controls Leads in each of the Enterprise Processes:
We'll look to you to provide strategic direction to Controls Leads in each of the Enterprise Processes:

- Network and Supply Planning
- Material procurement & management
- Production to dispatch door
- Order to distribution and cash
- Procure to Pay
- Record to Report
- Enterprise planning (including sustainability)

Ensure an integrated and coordinated approach to design and embedding of Business and IT control activities.

**What you'll do**:
This role will drive the development and delivery of the S/4 global process design for controls aligned with the AstraZeneca Financial Controls Framework and driving controls automation and touchless processing wherever possible. This will include defining clear process scope and a forward-looking strategy for migration to the next generation of SAP, together with a particular focus on interactions within and across “Operations” and “Finance” and the integrations with other SET areas, eg R&D and Commercial.

Accountable for controls impacted by the E2E process transformation driven by the process harmonisation and strategic adoption of the latest SAP S/4 capabilities integrated with other enabling technologies to deliver the business outcomes for AstraZeneca and elevating the ’as-is’ to standard methodology

Provide expert E2E controls and SAP S/4 product knowledge for Finance

Lead a team of experts to create, govern and implement respective controls within the E2E global standard process across Finance with particular reference to embedding/automation

Define how controls will operate within the SAP Best Practices and the “strawman” standard global design

Confirm the benefits driven by the SAP S/4 programme responding to critical difficulties and deliver solutions to complex technical issues and ensure successful benefits transfer through the programme lifetime

Establish baseline key performance indicators and measures that can be used to gauge process improvements in the controls environment

Lead controls outcomes in the “fit to standard” workshops and validate the standard design. Identify where exceptions lead to local business outcome requirements

Develop the team profile to be seen as a key influencing unit across the S/4 programme and the wider business

Establish influential and highly collaborative relationships across enterprise processes, in particular within the SAP S/4 leadership team, the BAU GPO/BPO teams and process user groups

Ensure strong collaboration with the AZ Financial Controls & Compliance Group and at the appropriate time with our auditors (PwC)

**Essential for the role**:

- Bachelor’s degree qualification (or equivalent)