Finance Manager - Source to Pay

The Opportunity

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Accounts Payable professional to lead this section of the Global Business Services (GBS) Finance team. They will demonstrate technical expertise within STP with a broad knowledge of other functional areas. The role will be responsible for delivering exceptional performance and oversight of the functional processes, providing support and guidance across the 3-legged stool (Franchisees, Suppliers and Employees) to ensure the activities within Source to Pay team support the Global Finance Model, GBS Transformation and McDonalds strategy & Vision.

What will my accountabilities be?

• Lead the operational accounting and financial reporting duties in providing excellence associated with the end to end process of Source to Pay activities
• Solve complex STP problems that impact the business
• Establish and review regularly both individual and functional goals that align to the GBS organisational and McDonalds performance objectives
• Ensure Invoice Processing, Accounts Payable and cash disbursement process compliance with accounting policies, timely and accurate delivery of responsibilities, including reconciliation and month end deliverables
• Develop effective customer focused processes and provide clear issue resolution through measures and reporting that enable problem solving, drive ownership, SLAs/KPI target achievement and builds trust.
• Nurture a continuous improvement environment, supporting the management team to identify opportunities, plan and conduct best practice, improvement and review sessions with key clients and stakeholders
• Streamline processes, and identify, develop and implement automation opportunities
• Detect anomalies in data, and provide recommendations for exception resolution that is aligned to policies and enables robust insight
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues both within Finance and across the wider business, developing strong relationships built on trust, curiosity and resilience.
• Lead, manage and support the team with development, performance conversation and providing frequent feedback.
• Escalation and transparent communication of business critical issues to the GBS Senior Manager / Head of GBS Finance
• Additional GBS/Transformation Readiness responsibilities;
• Lead the Accounts Receivable Process for non franchisee debt and co-ordinate the month-end bad debt provisioning process
• Ensure seamless handover of Accounts Receivable tasks to OTC & Lease Income Manager in line with agreed timeframe
• Support and review data requirements for creation, clean up & migration in STP for UK & Ireland.
• Lead on adoption of new ways of working, using influence to champion change and encourage critical thinking
• Collaborate and help to develop, document, train and implement process improvements with local working instructions
• Streamline processes, and identify, develop and implement automation opportunities.
• Support the development of a refreshed, simplified and more automated control environment

What Team will I be a part?

GBS (Global Business Services) Finance Team

Who are my customers?

This role will include working with and building relationships across;

Internal

• GBS Colleagues (Local and Global)
• Key Departments; Market Finance, IT, Franchising, Operations
• Global Internal Audit and Business Controls & Compliance

External

• Suppliers
• 3rd Party Organisations in Automation Development
• 3rd Party Service Delivery Providers (e.g. Travel provision (BCD/Amex))
• Auditors, Banks & Other Finance Organisations