ACCOUNTING & FINANCE PROJECTS LEADER
Cemex
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- GES representative for projects involving GES in the USA.
- Manage, Coordinate, Participate, and/or Execute GES assigned or related projects.
- Act as a business consultant specific to a business area to Business Relationship Partner and Regional Staff
- Create successful relationships with business and being a trusted advisor on all GES aspects of a project, with the related project management and GES process integrations.
- Acts as top GES representative in the region for the project and is the key point of contact for all project interactions with the GES.
- Ensures project deadlines are met and related services are delivered in a timely manner for the GES.
- Prepare and deliver project plans and updates to the Business Relationship Partner for the USA and senior management.
- Actively track project timelines, manage escalations, and keep all necessary parties informed of any project risks.
- Coordinate all project requirements with all teams inside the GES (P2P, O2C, Payroll, R2R, Ops Support, BRM) and teams outside of GES (IT, Planning, Operations, etc.)
- Maintain awareness of changes to business strategy, goals and processes to ensure requirements appropriately reflect the needs and priorities of the project.
- Work to maintain all GES services levels during the execution of each project.
- Support post project implementation.
- Optimize project costs and budgets.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence.
- Understand and integrate business strategies and trends in services delivery to deliver value
- Ability to focus and drive targeted business outcomes and results
- Highly skilled and experienced at negotiating conflict and problem-solving to achieve win-win outcomes at executive level
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance preferrable
- 5+ years' experience within Financial shared services / operations experience in a corporate environment, ideally with significant exposure to the building materials industry
- 3+ years' experience in project management and integrations within a shared services model.
- Understanding of shared services functions, billing, credit, collections, payables, accounting, finance, payroll, business finance support, etc.)
- Ability to understand shared services processes, as well as related systems knowledge for integration projects.
- Demonstrated ability to work with a combination of the internal teams and outsourced vendor staff
- Possess high degree of business and organizational understanding
- Strong awareness and understanding of emerging technologies and solutions
- Demonstrable experience in advanced stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills including a proven ability to influence at a Senior Management and Executive level
- Broad strategic experience - excellent strategic thinking and critical analysis skills - able to see our future and how we get there
- Excellent collaboration and influencing skills - able to challenge effectively, provoke new thinking, and drive progress and change throughout the delivery center
- Capable of getting things done both through formal channels and the informal network
- Excellent written & verbal communication