You contribute to the transformation of a financial organization evolving from a reactive, recording department to a proactive, data-driven business partner. You provide direction to a team and to a change where knowledge development, collective leadership, cultural change, and data-driven chain collaboration form the basis for tomorrow's financial services. As a team leader, you manage a team of approximately 20 FTE within the Order to Pay domain.
Together with other managers, you build on the further development of this domain, which is responsible for the complete order to pay process.
What you do
- Daily management and leadership of your team, with an eye for their professional development and growth opportunities.
- Ensuring the quality of the purchasing and creditor process. You proactively implement improvement measures based on findings from annual audits.
- Stimulating process optimization and 'first time right' principles. You promote your team's optimal use of digital and electronic possibilities, such as RPA robots, e-invoicing, and automatic matching.
- Identifying risks and trends in the invoice and purchasing process and proactively advising the management team and client organizations on these.
- Maintaining contact with clients and government purchasing organizations and making results-oriented agreements regarding service delivery.
- Contributing to collective leadership: as part of the management team, you collaborate across teams on the further development of the Order to Pay domain and the overall financial service center.
What they ask
- You know how to inspire and stimulate your employees' development, creating a safe working environment where learning, collaboration, and improvement are central.
- Awareness of the political-administrative context of a government organization and the ability to respond to it with a sense of administrative relations.
- Analytical ability to comprehend reports, recognize trends, and translate insights into concrete actions.
- Decisive, firm, and able to persuade others to your choices.
- Understanding of how the invoice and purchasing process relates to the broader financial chain and the importance of good coordination and collaboration within it.
- University (Master's) level of thinking and working with a relevant education in finance, business administration, or business economics.
- Knowledge of booking processes, administrative organization/internal control (AO/IC), the accrual and cash commitment accounting systems, e-invoicing, and personnel declarations is a plus.
- Broad network of stakeholders around financial administration programs or willingness to build one.
- Leadership experience, preferably within financial functions of the (semi-)government.
- Experience with change management and continuous process improvement.
- Affinity with digitalization, data analysis, and RPA applications within financial processes.
Practical
- A motivation letter is required.
- An assessment is part of the application procedure.
- A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) will be requested.
- Working from home is possible.
- The required work and thinking level will be tested if not demonstrable by a diploma.
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