Metro Global Solution Center (MGSC) is internal solution partner for METRO, a 29.8 Billion international wholesaler with operations in 31 countries through 661 stores & a team of 93,000 people globally. Metro operates in a further 10 countries with its Food Service Distribution (FSD) business and it is thus active in a total of 34 countries.
MGSC, location wise is present in Pune (India), Dsseldorf (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland). We provide IT & Business operations support to 31 countries, speak 24+ languages and process over 18,000 transactions a day. We are setting tomorrow's standards for customer focus, digital solutions, and sustainable business models. For over 10 years, we have been providing services and solutions from our two locations in Pune and Szczecin. This has allowed us to gain extensive experience in how we can best serve our internal customers with high quality and passion. We believe that we can add value, drive efficiency, and satisfy our customers.
Website: https://www.metro-gsc.in
Company Size: 600-650
Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Type: Privately Held
Inception: 2011
Job Description
- Stakeholder engagement & relationship management including
stakeholder visits
- Set-up, review & baseline business & operational KPI's
- Has P&L responsibility & Cost leadership
- Out of the above 5+ years of experience in driving organization
change management and process transformation including digital
- Experience in coaching and mentoring leadership teams - Build team
capabilities, individual developments & create career path
- Experience in supporting in large strategic impact projects
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to interact
effectively with all levels of management
- Ability to prioritize, manage time effectively, escalate / resolve issues
appropriately
Managerial
Requirements
Executive presence, Story-telling, Leadership skills, C-Level
communication, transformation, Conflict management, Stakeholder
management & visits, Change management, Project management,
Team management, AI & Digital, AGILE ways of working
Required
Technical
Competencies
- SAP, MicroStrategy, Tagetik, Looker, Power BI & other forecasting,
budgeting and reporting tools within industry
Required
Functional skills
- Drive culture and mind set change within teams
- Part of leadership team in driving Organization strategy &
Transformation
- Lead finance target picture roadmap realization for FPNA
(Controlling), Process and managing transition & projects, adhering to
project milestones & timelines
- Monitor, track and control project outcomes to resolve issues,
conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
- Experience in leading teams in specific processes like Forecasting,
budgeting, strategic planning and monitoring (value creation plans),
reporting and analysis, Management financial performance overview
and support management decision.
- Responsible for presenting financial performance updates at all
relevant meetings and reporting on all the key metrics of
performance;
- Ensure that key performance reporting is accessible, user focused,
and action orientated;
- Ensure complying with all corporate governance (Capex approval,
budget etc.) and identifying and escalating risk when required
- Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgeting and
overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting in compliance and
regulatory guidelines and IFRS.
- Responsible for the forecast and reporting of Free Cash Flow, being
able to analyze and propose corrective actions;
- Delivering value to countries through business case realization &
improving customer experience (NPS)
- Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall
program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of
strategic objectives
- Develop and deliver proposals for new process transitions and
presentations to various audiences, including GBS Leadership team,
sponsors, CFOs and key stakeholders
- Background in Lean Six Sigma is a plus
Job Description
Job Requirements
- IFRS Certification is a plus
- Exposure to IT industry / running IT projects (Automation / ERP
implementation) is a plus
- International Exposure (Min 6 months) is a plus
- Experience in using big databases
- Understand the interdependencies between margin, stock and
profitability in a wholesales environment and improve the integrity of
information for decision making
- Understand the general logic of stock formula on all main price levels
and improve the data quality for METRO
- Learn how to use the already developed solutions and finetune them
further
- Develop new ideas and define development tasks to improve the data
integrity reports and solutions. Follow up the tasks of developers in
daily / weekly data integrity meetings
- Develop concepts for improving data integrity within and between IT
applications. Follow up issues reported to 8 source and target
applications (goods management systems for stores and logistic
platforms, SAP and BI) in weekly / biweekly meetings
- Support colleagues in 20 countries by providing 4-5 daily / weekly /
monthly data integrity reports (quality assured by you) and analyse
the results to suggest the necessary actions for improving data
quality both for financial reporting and operational steering worldwide
- Subject matter expert for buying price implementation in different
applications like in the future-oriented M|Stock Evaluation solution
(the new transactional database saved in stock formula logic)
Behavioral
Competencies
- Proactive and Solution oriented attitude
- Leading by example
- Integrity and honesty first approach
- Result self-driven and high motivation
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills
- Cost Leadership
- AI & Digital
- Open to travel & Hybrid working
- Strategical thinking and very efficient analytical skills
- Passionate work
- Self-checking and quality assurance attitude whatever you do
- Managerial skills to motivate and lead team members or developer
Qualifications
Qualified Accountant (CA) or
Master's Degree in Business Administration, Finance (reputed
institute)
Preference for candidates with consumer goods industry experience
Experience
Preferred Work
- 15 years+ of experience in leading FPNA (Controlling) End-to-End
Process Transformation, Transition, Service delivery, Digitization.
- Experience in people leadership & leading large teams with FPA
processes (current 50+ FTEs) and driving results
- Experience in driving FPA process transformation including but not
limited to process improvements, standardization, best practices and
bench marking
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Stakeholder engagement & relationship management including
stakeholder visits
- Set-up, review & baseline business & operational KPI's
- Has P&L responsibility & Cost leadership
- Out of the above 5+ years of experience in driving organization
change management and process transformation including digital
- Experience in coaching and mentoring leadership teams - Build team
capabilities, individual developments & create career path
- Experience in supporting in large strategic impact projects
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to interact
effectively with all levels of management
- Ability to prioritize, manage time effectively, escalate / resolve issues
appropriately
Additional Information
Managerial
