Global Process Owner

at  Just eat Takeawaycom

READY FOR A CHALLENGE

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

ALL ABOUT THE ROLE

The R2R Global Process Owner will be the owner of the finance operations processes within R2R. You are responsible for ensuring high quality and compliance from a financial perspective for all legal entities, encompassing a broad range of topics and many stakeholders. This individual will be responsible for setting KPIs and meeting the anticipated targets by focusing on the global process design, process deployment, further standardising and optimising the R2R process within the global Finance function while improving world class performance. The Global Process Owner will report to the GFO Director and collaborate with senior executives within Group Finance, Reportable Segment Finance Directors, Country Finance Leads, Tax, Corporate secretary and Finance Systems. Finally, the Global Process Owner acts as a link between the Global Process Sponsor and the Process Champions.
You’ll have a team of approx 85-90 individuals across multiple countries and 5-7 Direct Reports.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Define and communicate a clear vision and strategy for Record to Report processes across the JET operating model, in line with the GFO vision/strategy
• Possess ownership of R2R processes and act as subject matter expert (SME) for process documentation
• Partner and collaborate as a business partner with Group Reporting, Group FP&A, Reportable Segment FDs and Country Finance leads (for example for accounting, financial reporting and data governance), Tax, Corporate Secretary, Finance Systems, Legal, and other departments as necessary to ensure the teams are not only effectively supported, but also provide best in class user experience.
• Policy setting and writing and aligning standards and procedures of the process with other Process Owners ( Order to Cash (O2C) and Purchase to Pay (P2P))
• Set and oversee the maintenance of Record to Report process level master data with the context of global data policy and standards and monitors adherence, in alignment with the Master Data Management policies/teams
• Collaborate with the Risk and Control and Tax teams to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and deliver on high-quality data to ensure VAT/Duties/CIT/Withholding declaration information are appropriately delivered and in accordance with local timing & requirements
• Define/Finetune/Deliver R2R Key performance indicators (KPI’s) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to be used to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the sub-process and end-to-end business process
• Set out the guidelines for effective stakeholder mapping and continue to build the GFO foundational report. Get an understanding of stakeholders’ requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis, problem resolution, and supporting recommending options
• Identify, prioritise and manage tower-specific process improvement initiatives (including system implementations), to drive better decisions in support of accelerated growth/efficiency initiatives
• Mandate to approve/reject business cases requesting for R2R process changes, including the review and approve the set up of accounting flows
• Act as a stakeholder to foster a culture of change within the Record to Report domain including change management sessions/workshops
• Conduct knowledge transfer to R2R team members in terms of processes and technology
• Ensure delivery of R2R services, including asset and transaction reporting, period close, finance and external reporting, tax planning and compliance, transfer pricing, decision support
• Help develop, maintain and assess internal controls related to accounting and financial reporting systems
• Manage, prepare, administer and direct the account closing and financial reporting process of the GFO as required
• Adherence to timely and accurate preparation of financial information related to regulatory reporting including statutory financial statements, statistical reporting, CIT/VAT declarations.
• Talent development, i.e. coach and develop current team members to excel, stretch and expand in their role; and attract new GFO members
• Support the implementation of changes to workday finance through the change request committee (considering the data governance structure) and any other systems that will improve (finance) operations, ie. inventory management system, lease accounting tool, etc