Teamlead Financial Services II

Action; Zwaagdijk-Oost; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days holiday + 5 additional days

Annual bonus of 12.5% to 25%

Participation in long-term incentive plan

15% staff discount

Good pension scheme

Collective health insurance

Car allowance

Job summary

Action is seeking a Team Lead Financial Process Expertise in Zwaagdijk-Oost to oversee efficient financial Source-to-Pay (S2P) processes. The role involves leading a skilled team, boosting process effectiveness, and ensuring financial systems meet modern standards.

The ideal candidate has a master’s degree, 10 years of relevant experience, and knowledge of SAP and risk management. You will enjoy a competitive salary, attractive bonuses, a staff discount, and the option to work from home.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in financial controlling, auditing, or business consulting roles.
• Experience in accounts payable management or S2P consulting.
• Certifications in project management (Prince2) and Lean Six Sigma.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to improve financial Source-to-Pay processes.
• Coordinate financial process control framework implementation.
• Monitor process performance using KPIs.
• Drive process redesign initiatives and manage systems change.

Skills

Financial process knowledge

Leadership

Project management certifications

Process improvement

SAP product suite knowledge

Risk management

Education

Master's degree

Executive master's degree (e.g., chartered accountant)

Job description

Team Lead Financial Process Expertise – Source to Pay Processes

Full time, 38 hours

Overview

Action is looking for a Team Lead Financial Process Expertise within Financial Projects & Processes. You will lead a team of experts focused on efficient and controlled financial Source-to-Pay (S2P) processes.

Would you like to apply your process transformation and financial systems knowledge within Europe’s largest retailer? Then read on!

This is your daily action

Your team, Financial Process Expertise S2P, ensures that Action’s finance function is supported by modern systems and a coherent financial process & control framework. As the Team Lead, your challenge is to realize significant improvements of the effectiveness, efficiency, and risk mitigation of our main financial processes.

In this role, it is very important to maintain close contact with the stakeholders involved. These include managers and team leads within the finance discipline, program and project managers.

Within your area of expertise you are the connecting pin between Operations and Technology. You determine priority in change and as such the transformation roadmap in S2P.

You manage your team, ensuring everyone continues to be highly motivated to realize ambitious targets. In addition:

• You ensure that a financial process model, supported by high quality process documentation is in place;
• You coordinate the implementation of the Risk Control Framework relative to financial processes;
• Process performance will be monitored based on a set of KPIs that you design + maintain;
• You drive process redesign initiatives, addressing the impact on systems and taking responsibility for business change.
• Focus area’s include source to pay process improvement for our non commercial purchasing with the use of Ariba & VIM; digitalization of commercial and non commercial invoices, partly driven by new legislation, partly by efficiency opportunities & optimization of rental contract & invoice handling.

Meet your team

Within the team Financial Projects & Processes there are two Process teams, one focusing on S2P and one on R2R & O2C. The expert team S2P consists of 6 enthusiastic and committed team members, some with an international background.

As the team lead, you report to the Head of Financial Projects & Processes who in addition manages our project and program managers.

Financial Projects & Processes is part of Financial Services which handles the entire administration of our international organisation and employs around 100 different specialists. Do you want to work in the dynamic environment of Europe’s fastest growing retailer, with plenty of international growth opportunities? If so, it's time to take action!

Curious about your new colleagues? Marije Schouten is looking forward to working with you.

This is you

• You are educated at master’s degree level and subsequently obtained an executive master’s degree, e.g. as a chartered accountant or chartered controller;
• Your prior work experience includes at least 10 years in roles such as financial or business controller, auditor or consultant, process expert, project manager or in business facing technology positions delivering significant changes in large organizations;
• Your work experience includes an operational or advisory role in the S2P domain, for example as an AP manager or S2P consultant in a finance transformation;
• You obtained certifications in project management (Prince2 foundation level) and process improvement (Lean Six Sigma green belt level);
• You have knowledge of the SAP product suite supporting financial processes, of financial processes, and of audit, risk management and internal control practices;
• You have an excellent command of English, both spoken and written and you are comfortable engaging with and presenting to senior management.

What we offer

• 24 days holiday with the option to buy five additional days (based on 38 hours per week);
• Annual bonus of between 12.5% and 25% based on personal and business objectives;
• Participation in the long term incentive plan;
• A competitive salary based on a 38-hour week;
• The option to spend up to 40% of your hours working from home (in coordination with your team and manager);
• 15% staff discount on your purchases at Action;
• A good pension scheme, collective health insurance and car allowance;
• Zwaagdijk-Oost is traffic jam-free and only 30 minutes by car from Amsterdam.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite anyone who recognizes themselves in the vacancy to apply.