Job Overview:

This position will work with Functional Leadership Team and Program Team, the Senior Manager Plan to Perform will be accountable for the successful delivery of ESS Transformation Program by leading the implementation of the global solution within the Plan to Perform workstream.

The program aims to implement a unified way of working across Finance, Sourcing and Human Resources with clear roles and responsibilities that eliminates redundancy and promotes efficiency.

The role will ensure a coordinated approach throughout, enabling operations to execute their mandates effectively.

The Senior Manager will be accountable to ensure seamless integration of cross functional processes across streams and leverages leading practices.

The role will report into the Director: Cross-Functional System Solutions and will be subject to Governance via ESS SteerCo and Program Leadership.

• Value-Focused Portfolio: Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea cable business and fintech.
• Strengthen the Core: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure.
• Evolve the Core: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.
• People: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.
• Excellence in Customer Experience: Creating superior customer experiences. From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work- life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you’re looking to challenge your growth potential,
• Provide insight and recommendations from a functional, data model and systems perspective on the design of a short- and long-term solution.
• Conduct review sessions to assess the alignment of the solution design to the business requirements.
• Support the design of the unified process by actively participating and providing input towards business workshops.
• Reviews and assures your respective business processes and ensures the appropriate governance is in place to manage deviations from the unified processes.
• Reviews and assures the Functional Requirements Specification and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Identifies areas of clarification and questions ahead of workshops.
• Identifies and documents requirement gaps.
• Participates to workshops and clarify questions around integration points and support with the development of business requirements.
• Conducts review sessions with Business Owners, SI to assess the alignment of the solution design to the business requirements.
• Participates to workshops with the SI technical team and OpCos to review new requirements (customizations) to determine whether they are acceptable.
• Participates to workshop (s) with SI and Business owners to understand, review the fixes or remediation actions provided by the SI against the requirements review findings and provide recommendation for approval.
• Reviews business design deliverables from the SI and document findings
• Support the different phases of the product development including but not limited to design finalization, build, SIT, UAT, Trainings in coordination with the program stakeholders.
• Act as SPOC (single point of contact) on the assigned modules towards the leadership of the program.

Experience :

• 10 years of Functional Management Experience
• Hands-on experience in the implementation of consolidation (Group reporting) and budget control-related modules (e.g. FM)
• In-depth knowledge of GR/FM data model and downstream process/surrounding system data dependencies for planning, consolidation and budget control related modules
• Experience in with SAP S/4HANA implementations using Fiori as front end
• Minimum 5 years in Telco industry, specifically in business planning.
• Experience in doing business process analysis, system design and implementation, process design work.
• Understanding touchpoints with different business cycles like acquire to retire, record to report etc.
• Full understanding on CAPEx life cycle in Telco with exposure to group and OPCO perspective.
• Various aspects of the process like business process controls, reporting requirements, authorization consideration (role based permissions in the ERP setting) are analyzed thoroughly while finalizing the design in the system.
• Sound capability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• Proven track record of business improvement
• Understanding of functional areas and/or products associated with specific initiative
• Ability to drive change management work stream in a project context with limited guidance
• Sound business judgment to ensure cultural aspirations are well integrated in performance improvement activities
• High level of energy and creativity for transformation, willingness to go the extra mile
• Other:
• Regional and international travel

Qualifications

• University degree
• SAP certifications are a plus

Must have skills:

Technical

• Project Management - Advanced
• Process Design - Advanced
• Business Acumen - Advanced
• Business Transformation - Advanced
• Functional Stream Expertise - Advanced
• ERP Implementation - Advanced