Manager Digital Project (Finance Transformation Manager - ITP)

Overview

Manager, Digital Project (Finance Transformation Manager - ITP) in the Continuous Improvement Center of Excellence within Caterpillar's Global Finance Services Division, focused on standardization, optimization and digitalization of Global business services, with focus on Invoice-to-Pay processes (ITP).

What you'll do

• Drive continuous improvement activities, including mapping current and future process maps, driving corrective actions, and developing, tracking, and measuring qualitative and quantitative results.
• Drive a culture of innovation, simplification and continuous improvement through best practice sharing, advocacy, and hands-on leadership.
• Partner with senior leadership, understand business goals, analyze opportunities, and develop improvement plans for various workflows/systems and technologies.
• Build roadmaps that support the tactical execution of key continuous improvement initiatives across stakeholder teams.
• Ensure consistent application of continuous improvement tools, methodologies, and best practices to accelerate improvements at scale.
• Identify and engage subject matter experts in support of multi-functional efforts in continuous improvement.

What you'll need

• Overall experience of 10 to 15 years.
• Knowledge of best practices in invoice processing, supplier inquiry and helpdesk design, remittance advice issuance, vendor inquiries and dispute management.
• Knowledge and understanding of the mechanics in the ITP process stream and how these fit into the end-to-end financial process environment.
• Project management skills.
• People leadership/management experience.
• Diagnostic capabilities to identify improvement opportunities.
• Ability to work effectively across a matrix environment and navigate without formal authority to deliver on business results.
• MSc/MBA in a scientific or business discipline.
• Accounting certification or an equivalent combination of related experience.
• Working knowledge of financial systems (SAP, QAD, etc.) and ITP-specific tools (e.g. OCR, Supplier Portals, Invoice Workflow tools).

Nice to have

• Previous consultancy experience (2-3 years).

Details

• Location: Whitefield, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Work mode: On-site, 5 days a week in the office.