Global Process Owner (GPO) - Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable

at  tronox

Who We Are
Tronox Holdings plc (NYSE: TROX) is the world’s leading integrated manufacturer of titanium dioxide pigment. We mine titanium-bearing mineral sands and operate upgrading facilities that produce high-grade titanium feedstock materials, pig iron and other minerals. With 6,600 employees across six continents, our rich diversity, unmatched vertical integration model, and unparalleled operational and technical expertise across the value chain, position Tronox as the preeminent titanium dioxide producer in the world. Today, with $3.3 billion in annual revenue, we are the second largest in our industry, providing products that add brightness and durability to paints, plastics, paper, and other everyday products.

At Tronox, we believe living our values allows us to create a stronger, more successful company for everyone who works with us. We care deeply about our people, and we seek to attract and retain talented individuals who share our values. These are:

• We have an uncompromising focus on operating safe, reliable and responsible facilities
• We honor our responsibility to create value for stakeholders
• We treat others with respect, and act with personal and organizational integrity
• We build our organization with diverse, talented people who make a positive difference, and we invest in their success
• We are adaptable, decisive, and effective
• We are trustworthy and reliable, and we build mutually rewarding relationships
• We share accountability and have high expectations for ourselves and one another
• We do the right work the right way in every aspect of our business
• We celebrate the joy of working together to accomplish great things

Position Title
Global Process Owner (GPO) – Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
Location
United Kingdom - Stallingborough
The newTRON Business Transformation Program
newTRON is our first major step to achieve our vertical integration-centric strategy, a broad-based operations and business systems transformation that can enable us to meet the foundational requirement of competitive pigment costs. To be the global leader in TiO2, we must adopt a standardized business and technology architecture that elevates business performance, applies the best of TiO2 technology and provides real operations and information technology convergence. This process must take a global view of our operations, reduce costs through standardization and automation, enable operational excellence and ensure our digital capabilities unleash our ability to exploit our global footprint. This crucial project will bridge the gap between where we are today and fully realizing the benefits of standardized processes and operations technologies, and it will impact all aspects of our business, across all layers of technology.

The Scope of the newTRON 1.0 transformation is focused on three key areas, namely:

• Global end-to-end process design across operations and business functions as well as establishing a Tronox-wide data strategy, master data governance and data cleansing initiative
• Operational Transformation including full roll-out at Tronox sites, across all layers of Technology from instrumentation, to manufacturing execution systems, to implementation of standard maintenance planning and scheduling processes
• Global greenfield implementation of ERP (SAP S/4HANA) (currently Tronox has multiple SAP and non-SAP ERP systems) and new peripheral business applications to support areas like supply chain optimization, customer relationship management, integrated business planning, global trade services, logistics planning and execution, human resource management as well as enabling platforms. The first release of the Program was implemented in July 2022.

Position Overview
This position will be responsible for the design and delivery of AP and AR processes and solutions globally. The incumbent is a representative from the Finance team and needs to be a subject matter expert in these respective finance processes (process scope summarized below). They work closely with the decision authorities, corporate and regional teams, system integrator, other GPOs, solution architects and data leads within Finance and other functions to define standard finance business processes and solutions. It is key for this role to have excellent interpersonal skills to get global design and solutions across to stakeholders and be a change champion to help with successful adoption of new processes and solutions.

Business Process Scope Summary

• Manage Customer Credit Exposure
• Manage Collections
• Process Receipts
• Process Supplier Invoices
• Enable Payment
• Others – Controls associated with above areas

Primary Responsibilities

• GPO AP & AR Finance owns end-to-end transactional finance processes across functional, geographic, and business unit boundaries
• This role is a gatekeeper of standardized business processes and solutions - Assess localization or other requirements, assess the impact to global template and recommend whether changes should be implemented. Any changes to processes need their sign off
• Provide process direction and leadership within the organization. Seek to understand the capabilities in new solutions and vanilla processes to maximize the use of “out-of-the-box” configurations and functionality
• Assist with capturing requirements and functional design as well as with functional testing, integration testing and final validation through User Acceptance Testing
• Assist in training, change management, and organizational transformation of the business to support the realization of target benefits as expected with the new processes and systems - Change agent responsibilities
• Support of, and subject matter expert input to, identification, development, and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities of processes and systems to improve service delivery and efficiencies
• Support business process governance to ensure that the right decisions and actions are taken to enhance business performance
• Support the development and implementation of effective measures to provide risk assurance and ensure compliance to standardized processes, operating procedures controls and process tools
• Lead identification of automation and improvement opportunities with leveraging technologies like RPA, machine learning/AI, advanced data, and analytics solutions

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 5 years’ experience in AP / AR is a plus.
• Deep subject matter expertise within in-scope business processes
• Strong influencing skills to be champions of global design
• Excellent analytical skills - effectively evaluates information / data to make decisions; anticipates obstacles and develops options with pros and cons and recommends solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to be able to conduct workshop and help train the trainer
• Change oriented - actively generates process improvements; supports and drives change, and confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-energy, team-oriented environment across various time zones
• Good troubleshooting skills to support testing and hypercare support

Competencies

• Highly methodical/analytical and structured thinking
• Drives alignment, leads, inspires, and builds trust with others
• Coaching and developing; Influencing and persuading; Excellent relationship-building skills
• Available and responsive to questions and clarifications
• Ability to tailor communication to multiple audiences at all levels
• A self-starter, experienced in delivery work streams
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate concepts in a way that enables effective decision making
• A proven ability to develop and execute tactical plans to support the delivery
• Quick learner

• GPO AP & AR Finance owns end-to-end transactional finance processes across functional, geographic, and business unit boundaries
• This role is a gatekeeper of standardized business processes and solutions - Assess localization or other requirements, assess the impact to global template and recommend whether changes should be implemented. Any changes to processes need their sign off
• Provide process direction and leadership within the organization. Seek to understand the capabilities in new solutions and vanilla processes to maximize the use of “out-of-the-box” configurations and functionality
• Assist with capturing requirements and functional design as well as with functional testing, integration testing and final validation through User Acceptance Testing
• Assist in training, change management, and organizational transformation of the business to support the realization of target benefits as expected with the new processes and systems - Change agent responsibilities
• Support of, and subject matter expert input to, identification, development, and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities of processes and systems to improve service delivery and efficiencies
• Support business process governance to ensure that the right decisions and actions are taken to enhance business performance
• Support the development and implementation of effective measures to provide risk assurance and ensure compliance to standardized processes, operating procedures controls and process tools
• Lead identification of automation and improvement opportunities with leveraging technologies like RPA, machine learning/AI, advanced data, and analytics solution