Senior Proximity Manager, Finance

Embark on an exciting career journey with Pernod Ricard, the #1 premium spirits organization in the world. We proudly manage a portfolio of 240 premium brands available in over 160 countries. Join our team of 18,500 talented professionals spreading 73 countries and contribute to our diverse range of major wine and spirits categories.

At Pernod Ricard, we are "créateurs de convivialité," dedicated to transforming every social interaction into an authentic, friendly, and responsible experience. Our commitment extends beyond great taste; we prioritize sustainability and responsibility, from grain to glass. Join us at Pernod Ricard to enjoy a fulfilling and dynamic career in the global wine and spirits industry!

Our global Tech team operates in an agile manner within a dynamic product organization. Immerse yourself in a collaborative environment where innovation thrives, and your contributions will play a direct role in shaping the path of our cutting-edge products. As a key player in our agile setup, you'll have the opportunity to enhance efficiency, foster creativity, and play a pivotal role in our product development process. Become part of a team that embraces adaptability and values continuous improvement, ensuring we stay at the forefront of global technology advancements.

As the Finance Proximity Specialist , you will take on the critical role of turning business needs into technology solutions from defining system requirements and designing technical solutions, to developing and testing enhancements. You will work on a variety of Operation initiatives including implementation of new products, enhancements to existing systems with close collaboration with our global partners in Pernod Ricard. You will be comfortable with system/software design and development and possesses solid communication and documentation skills.

The role involves collecting local insights and feedback on products, conducting change management activities, ensuring the secure deployment of global products in Affiliates, and facilitating the engagement of local Key User communities.

• Capturing affiliates needs and specificities on a specific product domain: Conduct interviews and surveys with affiliates to understand their requirements within my specific product domain and arbitrate/challenge their claims and analyze affiliate data and feedback so tailored solutions that address their specific needs and align with the product's offerings can be considered by Product teams
• Incident Management: Act as the liaison between the Business and the incident support team within the ME, provide functional skills to qualify incidents and orient them to the right capability teams

• Performing roll-out and change management actions for global products of their domain scope: Gather insights and user feedback to enhance product functionality and user experience, prepare relevant change plan & activities and perform local change impact assessment and change activities to ease local adoption of global products, support test activities with end users and perform defined required roll-out activities
• Value Realization : Collect & consolidate relevant metrics/insights to report on value delivered from Products at affiliate level

7 years minimum experience in IT finance management, with a proven track record of success.

•Strong understanding of finance processes, including GL, AR, AP, Treasury, FA, tax, controlling, reporting and consolidation. Also, understand the E2E processes of O2C, P2P,F2S

•Extensive knowledge of finance technology systems, including ERP, E-invoice, tax platform, purchasing platform, etc.

•Experience in the end to end implementations of ERP Applications such as JDE, SAP ECC, S/4 HANA etc.

•Knowledgeable in establishing integrations with applications of other domains

•Strong analytical skills with an ability to visualize processes and outcomes

•Ability to identify, analyze, and resolve problems logically and systematically

•Outstanding all-round communication skills and ability to work collaboratively

•Collaboration & team spirit

•Great attention to detail to ensure highest level of quality/rigor in system configuration

•Ability to work in an Agile environment

•Understanding of industry best practices

•Strong project management skills both Agile and Waterfall

•Fluent in English and Mandarin is mandatory

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology or related discipline desired.

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