Position Summary
The Global Process Owner & Delivery Lead - Intercompany is the enterprise leader responsible for designing, governing, and continuously improving the end-to-end global Intercompany process-including transaction recording, reconciliation, settlement, compliance, controls, reporting, and technology enablement.
This role ensures standardization, accuracy, transparency, and timely settlement of all intracompany and intercompany activities across all regions and business units to support efficient operations and accurate consolidated financial reporting.
This position reports to the Sr. Director, Finance GPO & Delivery and will be based in Brea, CA (USA) or Prague (Czech Republic).
Key Responsibilities
Global Process Ownership & Governance
- Own the global end-to-end intercompany process, including transaction initiation, recording, matching, reconciliation, settlement, dispute resolution, reporting, and control execution
- Establish, document, and maintain global intercompany standards, policies, SLAs, controls, and operational frameworks
- Drive global consistency while enabling necessary local regulatory requirements.
- Maintain strong governance, including SOX compliance, internal audits, and data privacy standards
- Oversee process performance across Process Delivery teams, regional teams, and OpCos to ensure adherence to enterprise intercompany standards
Compliance, Risk & Control Management
- Ensure adherence to accounting, statutory, tax, transfer pricing, and regulatory requirements across all geographies for intercompany transactions and settlements
- Design and enforce the global control environment, including reconciliation processes and preventative/detective controls
- Proactively identify compliance risks and lead mitigation actions across regions
Continuous Improvement & Transformation
- Develop and maintain a standardized global intercompany operating model supported by best-practice workflows, clear ownership, and consistent service delivery expectations
- Lead global transformation initiatives to digitize, simplify, standardize, and automate intercompany processes, aligned with enterprise GPO expectations and Modern Finance principles
- Drive root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to improve intercompany accuracy, timeliness, transparency, and settlement efficiency
- Build and maintain KPIs and dashboards for intercompany process performance, aged balances, settlement cycle time, disputes, compliance, and service delivery
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement across intercompany teams globally
Technology & Systems Enablement
- Partner with IT, Controllership, Tax, Treasury, and Process Delivery teams to optimize and harmonize intercompany-related technology, including ERP, consolidation, reconciliation, workflow, and reporting tools
- Identify opportunities for AI, automation, RPA, workflow tools, integrations, and analytics to enhance intercompany processing, matching, reconciliation, and exception management
- Ensure data integrity and seamless integrations with ERP, consolidation, tax, treasury, and reporting systems
Operational Support & Leadership
- Define the future global intercompany delivery model across Process Delivery teams, regional finance, OpCos, and corporate functions, drawing on global best practices
- Provide direction to process delivery teams and regional stakeholders, ensuring capability building, knowledge sharing, and performance excellence
- Serve as escalation point for complex intercompany issues, disputes, aged balances, settlement delays, and process exceptions
- Support audit activities through ownership of standardized controls and documentation
Vendor, Stakeholder & Regional Partnership
- Manage relationships with internal delivery teams, OpCos, regional finance leaders, and external service providers supporting intercompany processes
- Serve as escalation point for complex intercompany issues globally
- Partner with Controllership, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, IT, Process Delivery teams, and regional leadership to ensure aligned execution and ongoing improvements
- Drive change management: training, communication, adoption, and documentation across regions
Job Requirements
Experience & Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline required
- CPA, CMA, or equivalent finance/accounting certification preferred
Experience
- 10+ years of experience in accounting, controllership, process delivery teams, intercompany accounting, finance operations, or a similar process-heavy leadership role
- Experience with large-scale intercompany process transformation, ERP implementations, process delivery transitions, or global process standardization initiatives
- Familiarity with process delivery or GBS operating models
- Strong understanding of intercompany accounting, reconciliations, eliminations, transfer pricing considerations, settlement processes, and financial controls
- Experience with Oracle, SAP, Bla