Philips is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights.
Your Team:
Philips FP&A related processes are in part outsourced to an external service provider in order to drive operational cost down and support ongoing harmonization and standardization. At the same time proper fulfillment in good quality and on time of customer requirements of both the Financial Business Partner community and FP&A function itself are key.
Your challenge:
As the Senior Relationship FP&A Expert you will be the key interface between the FP&A organization, the Financial Business Partner Community and the service provider. You will define the proper service offering and requirements. You will constantly strive to harmonize the reporting output and improve efficiency and improve customer value addressing timeliness and quality of harmonized reporting and FP&A process support.
Your responsibilities:
- Reporting within the Financial Management System (FMS) Center of Expertise (CoE).
- Managing the service delivery of the outsourced service provider in terms of quality, timeliness and cost.
- Measuring and managing performance of the service provider in terms of quality and timeliness of output as well as against service level agreements
- Developing and maintain fit for purpose service level agreements with the service provider.
- Driving productivity improvements.
- Identifying enablers required to safeguard efficient and effective processes and align with teams in Philips responsible for bringing these enablers in place.
- Ensuring proper documentation of the processes through value stream mapping or alike.
- Actively seeking customer and service provider feedback.
- Driving continuous improvement cycles on the service delivery.
- Improving the performance of the department
- Implementing new solutions regarding the cooperation with outsourcing partner
We are looking for:
- Around 5 years progressive work experience in finance, preferably in an FP&A role
- Proven track of experience in Stakeholder Management/ Relationship Management
- Graduate with Bachelor/Master or equivalent degree in Finance
- Fluent English language essential (Polish as native language is highly preferred).
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills (extravert, comfortable speaking to large audiences)
- Background in SSC, cooperation with outsourcing provider will be an asset
- Affinity with IT solutions (Excel, SAP BPC or similar tools)
- Open to regular travel (Poland, India, Netherlands)
We offer a range of fringe benefits:
- Relocation package
- Yearly bonus based on performance achieved
- Private medical care with option to extend it to family members
- Benefit System cards
- Discount for Philips’ products