Senior Global Finance Process Owner

Music is Universal

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We are looking for an experienced finance professional to join our Global Finance Operations team as a Senior Global Finance Process Owner.

This is a key role in a global finance organisation with ownership of finance and royalty-related processes across accounting reporting process governance and continuous improvement. The role requires a strong accounting foundation solid business understanding and the ability to drive initiatives across functions countries and systems.

Our team acts as global process owners for finance and royalty processes including accounting and reporting to the groups Corporate Finance team. We work closely with local finance teams Corporate Finance IT solution architects business stakeholders and external partners to ensure that our processes are robust compliant efficient and scalable.

The company currently operates on SAP ECC with Analysis for Office BlackLine and Hyperion HFM integrations. Experience from ERP transformation or transition projects would be highly valuable.

The Role

As Senior Global Finance Process Owner you will be responsible for maintaining improving and developing global finance processes with a particular focus on accounting royalty-related processes reporting and finance process governance.

This role is well suited to someone who combines strong finance and accounting knowledge with a structured project-minded approach. You should be comfortable driving topics forward aligning stakeholders challenging existing ways of working and setting clear expectations toward colleagues team members and business partner

Key Responsibilities

• Act as global process owner for selected finance and royalty-related processes.
• Ensure that processes support accurate accounting reporting compliance and operational efficiency.
• Maintain and develop process documentation accounting logic controls and reporting requirements.
• Drive finance process improvement initiatives across countries functions and systems.
• Translate finance and business requirements into clear process and system requirements.
• Work closely with IT solution architects and other technical stakeholders to define business needs test solutions and support implementation.
• Identify process gaps risks dependencies and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in projects related to finance systems ERP changes process standardization automation and reporting improvements.
• Communicate expectations decisions timelines and responsibilities clearly across stakeholders.
• Contribute to building a modern scalable and well-controlled finance process landscape.

Skills and Experience Required

Must Have

• Strong accounting knowledge and solid understanding of financial reporting processes.
• Experience from finance operations financial controlling process ownership or similar roles.
• Experience working in an international or global organization.
• Strong communication skills in English both written and verbal.
• Ability to drive initiatives manage stakeholders and move topics forward independently.
• Structured and project-minded approach to problem-solving and execution.
• Ability to translate finance requirements into process and system requirements.
• Experience with modern finance reporting analytics or automation tools.

Nice to Have

• Experience from ERP transition ERP implementation or finance transformation projects.
• Experience with SAP finance processes master data accounting flows and reporting structures.
• Experience with royalty accounting intercompany processes revenue-related processes or complex financial flows.
• Experience working with Corporate Finance shared service centers local finance teams and IT teams.
• Experience with process documentation controls governance and change management.
• Familiarity with analytical tools BI/reporting solutions workflow tools or finance automation platforms.

Key Behaviours

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Curious and analytical with the ability to understand both details and the broader process landscape.
• Confident in expressing expectations and challenging stakeholders constructively.
• Able to build trust and collaborate across cultures functions and seniority levels.
• Comfortable working with complexity legacy processes and incomplete documentation.
• Pragmatic solution-oriented and persistent.
• Able to balance operational stability with continuous improvement.

Just So You Know

The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholders specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent definitive and exhaustive statement.

Job Category:

Finance & Accounting

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1