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Trivium Packaging · 1 week ago

Business Process Owner - Financial Planning

Palestinian Authority

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Trivium Packaging is a global sustainability leader in metal packaging, seeking a Business Process Owner for Financial Planning. The role involves designing and improving forecasting processes, serving as a liaison between Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to ensure efficiency and alignment with strategic objectives.

ManufacturingPackaging ServicesWholesale

Responsibilities

Define and drive the global strategy for financial planning, ensuring continuous alignment with business growth and transformation goal

Drive global harmonization of planning processes across all business units and regions, balancing standardization with local needs

Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive team on all matters related to financial planning innovation and digitalization

Define and maintain the global standard for financial forecasting processes

Develop and document process maps, policies, and procedures

Ensure alignment with corporate planning cycles and financial reporting requirements

Oversee the execution of forecasting cycles, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards

Act as the first point of contact for process-related queries and escalations

Maintain close collaboration with the Finance Global Process Owner to align financial forecasting and transactional finance processes, ensuring that process improvements are coordinated effectively

Support local finance teams in applying the standard forecasting process

Identify process inefficiencies and lead initiatives to enhance accuracy, speed, and usabilityStrong command of integrated business planning methodologies and financial forecasting best practices

Ability to design and implement robust process controls and compliance frameworks across planning cycles

Collaborate with data and analytics teams to integrate predictive forecasting techniques

Engage with key stakeholders (e.g., FP&A, Controlling, Business Units) to gather requirements and feedback

Facilitate cross-functional workshops and training sessions

Communicate process changes and updates effectively across the organization

Monitor and report on process KPIs and identify corrective actions when KPI are not up to the norm

Own the end-to-end financial forecasting process and ensure its effectiveness and compliance

Act as a change agent to drive adoption of standardized forecasting practices

Monitor process performance using KPIs and implement corrective actions as needed

Ensure documentation is up-to-date and accessible to all relevant stakeholders

Represent the Planning CoE in global forums and governance bodies related to forecasting

Solution lead Planning & Forecasting (by SAC) having a clear “product” vision and development roadmap, lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies (e.g., AI-driven forecasting, advanced analytics) to future-proof financial planning capabilities

Working with SAC user community, proactively seek and identify current and future requirements of business or improvement potentials

Assess demands, check cross-domain integration, feasibility, and effort

Prepare prioritization of demands and plan demand pipeline

Coordinate implementation from design to test & release, including user community sign off

Prioritize incident resolutions by assigning them to development resources (internal & external)

Plan change management & enablement, lead communication w/ SAC user community

Monitor quality and data processing efficiency for data models and overall SAC to pro-actively derive enhancements

Collaborate with SAC model managers: create value adding use cases, foster self-service and explorative BI, promote existing managed data models & functionalities

Design SAC technical architecture including interfaces and tool selections; continuously optimize SAC architecture and landscape to reflect business requirements

Solution lead of SAC (and corresponding data process)

Approval of demands for SAC implementation (in alignment with business priorities; up to certain effort limit)

Approval of transport to production (releases)

Responsible for performance, standardization, technical data quality and well-functioning of SAC architecture; compliance with defined technical guidelines

Qualification

Financial PlanningSAP Analytics CloudIntegrated Business PlanningProcess ImprovementData ModellingStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementAnalytical SkillsLeadership SkillsCommunication SkillsCollaboration SkillsDetail-oriented

Required

BSC or MSC, MBA

Fluent English is a must, any additional European language is welcome

8+ years of experience in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), controlling, or finance operations with a proven experience in financial planning process ownership and process improvement with at least 3–5 years in a senior specialist role

Expert-level understanding of integrated business planning (IBP), driver-based forecasting, and rolling forecasts in manufacturing industries

Proven track record of delivering complex planning solutions at scale, ideally in a global context, incl. strong project and resource management skills (incl. agile methodologies, e.g., SCRUM)

3+ years of people management experience

Leadership, training and coaching skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a continuous improvement mindset

Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities

Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a global, matrixed environment

Structured, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities

Strong coordination skills, collaboration with key stakeholder is a must

Expert knowledge of requirements engineering, data modelling & systems design, visualizations

Expert knowledge of SAC customizing and programming capabilities

Knowledge of DWH/ETL, SAC, architectures and tools

Ability and interest to identify and introduce new technologies and methods

Regularly follow up new developments and the SAP roadmap to stay on top of new technical functionalities and how they can be used for Trivium

Company

Trivium Packaging

Trivium Packaging is a company that manufactures metal packaging solutions that include pet food cans, seafood cans, beverage bottles. It is a sub-organization of Exal.

Founded in 2019

Chicago, Illinois, USA

5001-10000 employees