Controlling Group Business Process Owner H/F

Overview

GEODIS has launched in November 2023 its FIT project (FInance Transformation, Finance & IT)) in order to implement its Finance Core Model processes in a robust blend of solutions (S4 HANA and Coupa) that will be progressively deployed on a worldwide scope of entities (~52 countries) over the next few years. Core Model design is coordinated centrally by a team of Group Business Process Owners (GBPOs) under the responsibility of the Business Transformation lead. GBPOs cover all Procurement & Finance processes: Record-to-Report (R2R), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Source-to-Pay (S2P, Coupa scope), Record-to-Pay (R2P), Treasury (TRY) and Controlling (CTR). Controlling process is a critical process for the Company. Indeed, GEODIS has recently finalized the roll out of its Performance Management Blueprint with, as enabler, the ORACLE Cloud EPM solution. All business controllers over the Company adopted the same controlling principles. This standardization to a single language has been enabled through an MDM Finance solution and a Data Lake set up in the same time than the EPM solution. With FIT project, GEODIS aims at standardizing their operational Finance business process in a single ERP.

Project status in a nutshell:

• Core Model Process finalized (initial version) end of 2024
• Pilot implementation in 2025 and Go-live in October 2025
• Core Model Finalization (Line of Business Specifics, enhanced Core model) and Deployment waves to start from 2026 first quarter

Responsibilities

• Promote and explain GEODIS Business Transformation ambitions to GEODIS internal and external stakeholders on Controlling processes & tools (End-to-end View)
• The GBPO has a key role to play in each phase of the project. He contributes to most of activities as a leader or as contributor to bring business insights and also to ensure the Core Model is respected:
• Waves framing and business preparation
• Fit-gap analysis and decisions making process to ensure core model consistency or if valuable for all, Core model adjustment
• Detailed design activities
• Test phase (User Acceptance Tests), with contribution to System Integration Test when needed
• Data Migration contribution
• Change Management (incl. training activities)
• Hypercare support
• Animate a community of local process owners (LBPO) to promote and explain core model processes. Build a strong Finance Community and facilitate it along the project but also after the deployments is a key ambition of the Group Finance Department.
• Secure interdependency management with other GEODIS projects not covered by FIT (i.e. e-invoicing, business process evolution, BI replacement, …)
• the GBPO remains the "Core Model Guardian" for the Controlling Process and leads the continuous improvement approach in relationship with local contributors, functional directors, Product Owners and IT teams.
• Controlling is a transversal process, Controlling GBPO will work closely with the other GBPOs.

Qualifications

Master's degree from a Business School, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, engineering school or equivalent:

• Excellent Finance process knowledge with minimum 10-year experience in Controlling
• Project Management experience
• Appetite for IT subjects, excellent knowledge of SAP and satellite finance applications and data flows
• Very good communication skills to animate a large and demanding community
• Curious, open minded and solution oriented
• Team player
• Ability to work in challenging environment, to frame your own approach and to adjust your plan to manage time and risks in a project environment
• Fluent in both French and English (working languages)