KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry: our job is to make the world’s cities better places to live. At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization, which add value to the life cycle of any building.
KONE Finance professionals are responsible for corporate controlling and reporting, treasury, taxes, investor relations, as well as finance development and alliances and acquisitions. We support our business colleagues by driving a financially sound business direction and providing relevant intelligence for decision-making. With dedicated roles and global communities for support, our Finance function is a community with a high level of professionalism and ample opportunities for learning and growth.
We are now looking for Area Finance Process Manager, P2P to join the Europe Area Finance Deployment team.
In this role, you get to be in the forefront of and deploying operating models, tools, and guidelines as well as executing finance transformation strategies. You will be working closely with our frontline and Global finance professionals, IT, KBS, and other important stakeholders to ensure business continuity and efficient finance processes.

Your responsibilities and key activities

• Analyze and understand the frontline´s specific business requirements and bridge them with global processes and tools.
• Drive the deployment, utilization and constant improvement of the KONE Way (KW) best practice finance processes in the area
• Ensure the acceptance and successful implementation of new finance processes and supporting tools and the roll out of BPR and KW growth projects in the area
• Design, lead and manage specified process improvements/improvement projects, acting as an area finance project manager (where necessary) in transformation and stabilization phases
• Design, develop, implement and support the global KW Key Performance Indicator (KPI) framework and ensure the accurate reporting of these
• Support KONE units in using KPIs to improve their daily operations.

To succeed in this role, we expect you to have:

• Strong end to end knowledge of state of the art finance processes in P2P and respective track record
• Experience (+ 5 years) with business/finance processes and ability to lead change end2end- engage and motivate people - in a global, matrix organization.
• Proactive can do -attitude and excellent communication & collaboration skills.
• Fluency in English .
• Relevant university degree in Finance, or equivalent.
• General Finance knowledge is preferred and an asset.

The preferred location is Espoo, Finland or another major KONE city in Europe. The preferred start is in December 2023 / January 2024.
For additional information, please contact Peter Martin, Head of Finance Deployment, Europe (email: peter.martin@kone.com).
Please attach your CV and cover letter to let us know a little more about you and apply latest on Thursday the 19th of November via our Careers site.

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Your responsibilities and key activities

• Analyze and understand the frontline´s specific business requirements and bridge them with global processes and tools.
• Drive the deployment, utilization and constant improvement of the KONE Way (KW) best practice finance processes in the area
• Ensure the acceptance and successful implementation of new finance processes and supporting tools and the roll out of BPR and KW growth projects in the area
• Design, lead and manage specified process improvements/improvement projects, acting as an area finance project manager (where necessary) in transformation and stabilization phases
• Design, develop, implement and support the global KW Key Performance Indicator (KPI) framework and ensure the accurate reporting of these
• Support KONE units in using KPIs to improve their daily operations

To succeed in this role, we expect you to have:

• Strong end to end knowledge of state of the art finance processes in P2P and respective track record
• Experience (+ 5 years) with business/finance processes and ability to lead change end2end- engage and motivate people - in a global, matrix organization.
• Proactive can do -attitude and excellent communication & collaboration skills.
• Fluency in English .
• Relevant university degree in Finance, or equivalent.
• General Finance knowledge is preferred and an asset