O2C Continuous Improvement & Performance Specialist

O2C Continuous Improvement & Performance Specialist

• Location: Bogotá

About the job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready? As O2C Continuous Improvement & Performance Specialist within our O2C Team.

Sanofi Business Services (SBS), one of the 5 pillars of Sanofi’s Business Services organization, is setting up a new captive Business Services centre in Bogota to provide Account-to-Report, integrated Order-to-Cash.

With respect to integrated Order-to-Cash (iO2C) the Business Services centre will be covering the following areas of the process:

• Order Management
• Customer Master Data
• Credit Risk & Collections
• Cash Application
• Customer Contact Management
• Revenue & Receivables Accounting

The main purpose of this particular role is to:

• Setting-up the business cases & scenarios supporting decisions in Continuous improvements in term of Processes and Solutions (Systems & Automation) and Operating Model changes, in line with Core Model and Performance Targets and the Play-To-Win strategy for the End-To-End activities Ci2C process.
• Influence the iO2C leadership team and GPLs on initiatives, proposal, solutions.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert role in Continuous Improvement methodologies to collaborate with Global Process Owners and Leads (GPOs & GPLs), stream Managers and Team Leads to support the design and implementation of improvements and / or O2C projects
• Foster a continuous improvement culture by promoting identification of process improvement opportunities through process simplification & elimination of low value-added activities.
• Facilitate continuous improvement trainings to the hub community to promote the culture of continuous improvement.
• Enhance Continuous Improvement trainings for the Order to Cash organization.
• Be OTC Process Key User Lead for the SAP Platforms/Continent, and liaise with Sanofi Digital and SAP IT consultants both for troubleshooting and for process improvement
• Be a focal point for eClose / Blackline (RRA)
• Support the focal point for captive integrated order to cash KPI reporting, to support performance management related to in-scope processes
• Support and be project representative and/or subject matter expert in projects impacting O2C, related to in-scope processes

Support operation and be focal point towards global and regional GPO (Global Process Owner) organization, for in-scope processes along with our Continuous Improvement role in the HUB.

This role reports to the Revenue & Receivables Manager in Order to Cash

Continuous improvement support:

• Centralization on Identifying process improvement opportunities and develop changes through elimination of redundant activities or through standardizing.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and develop changes by calculating, monitoring and analyzing KPI results and trends, or based on user input.
• Provide support to organize workshops, high-impact projects to get desired result.
• Open communication with peers within service towers and related peers from other shared services centers at Sanofi.
• Gatekeeper to promote and create big impact projects for operational excellence.
• Enhance and promote Sanofi Core Model alignment.
• Work closely with GPL and GPOs to become a wide SME for Order to Cash.
• Work closely

Performance

• Calculate KPIs of ideas implementad and maintain dashboards as needed.

Support on the development and maintainance of desktop procedures, works instructions related to O2C processes

Main stakeholders and contacts

• Order to Cash Service Line Captive Bogota Head
• Order to Cash Captive Bogota Managers and Team Leaders.
• Order to cash retained organization within scope
• GPL and GPO related order to cash
• Local Digital, IT Teams
• Peers in other Service Lines of Captive Bogota
• Peers in Continous Improvement along global
• Finance related teams within the Hub and retained organization (A2R, Controlling Operations, FBPs, CFO, Treasury).
• Automation Center of Excellence

About you

• Experience: Experience related to O2C in an international and multicultural environment.
• 5 to 10 years of multicultural experiences in Finance (controlling, credit and collection management, internal control, accounting, share services) and/or Supply Chain and their delivery.
• International background with exposure to multicultural environments
• Experience in LEAN Management is a plus.
• Experience in managing functionally teams remotely.
• Experience of working within a Shared Services and Target Operating Processes would be highly valued.
• Proven experience in Project Management.
• Soft and technical skills: Good business acumen and understanding of relevant processes order to cash.
• Ability to identify problems and define solutions including implementation plans in a structured manner.
• Has continuous improvement mindset.
• Project Management skills in terms of organization and orchestration.
• Ability in understanding of common Information System (IS) solutions used in a multinational company.
• Ability to think strategically and be able to dive deep into operational problems.
• Team player, able to work collaboratively and transversally with local, global, hub teams members with an end-to-end mindset.
• Very good communicator with an ability to discuss on executive level.
• Knowledge and understanding of the O2C end to end process with ability to drive interdependencies with other organizations such as A2R, Controlling, local and O2S functions
• Proven finance experience with understanding of key accounting principles.
• Proactive working mindset and execution.
• Data driven analysis for scoping and addressing issues plus scoping solutions.
• Ability to influence others and proven leadership experience.
• Has hands-on experience of SAP FI (SAP, SAP S4) and other AR related IT tools
• Project management methodologies (lean, six sigma, kaisen)
• Skills on visualization tools for presentations and automation.
• Has strong knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Data analytics is a plus on any tool that is desirable.
• Has ability to interact with internal and external customers in a professional manner
• Is a team player who works well with every level of the organization
• High ability of influence others.
• Has engaging communication skills, is straight to the point on solutions and problem statements.
• Is attentive to customer needs, management requests and is receptive to feedback
• Education: Professional Degree (engineers, business administrator, or related.
• Languages: Advance Spanish and English language is mandatory, Portuguese will be an advantage.

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• You’ll be part of leading the first experiences a job seeker has with Sanofi and ensuring it is best-in-class and driving conversions.
• You’ll be part of a truly diverse cross-cultural team and can have real business impact.
• Flexible working policies, including up to 50% remote work.
• Private medical care, life and health insurance, and gender-neutral paid parental leave
• Colombia is one of Sanofi’s key locations for new talents, having a big footprint with the Bogota HUB and its best-in-class operation.
• Mexico and Argentina Play an instrumental part in creating best practice and innovation within our 3 vaccines production plants.

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