About us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 119 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 26,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.

As we move forward, our consumers will be at the heart of what we do, evolving to needs and expectations and committing to a more meaningful contribution to harm reduction by building a successful NGP business. Integral to our long-term success is our sustainability strategy, behaving responsibly and supporting our ambitions, all underpinned by high governance.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

 

The Role

We are seeking a Business Process Expert – Market to Cash to join and shape the design and deployment of global processes as part of the Unify Programme within Imperial Brands. This role represents a fantastic opportunity for an experienced professional to strengthen our process management capabilities and accelerate journey towards becoming a process-driven organisation.

Reporting to the Business Process Lead (BPL) the successful applicant will be responsible for supporting the design, deployment, and the continuous improvement of the Market to Cash (M2C) processes. This will include driving alignment of the end-to-end processes cross functionally with particular emphasis on the end-to-end process integration, metrics to measure process delivery, and the design and implementation of enabling technologies.

To enable effective and cost-efficient delivery and management of our processes Imperial Brands launched the Unify Programme aiming to transform and standardise key processes utilising enabling technology (SAP S/4 Hana) across commercial as well as manufacturing business unites.

In this role you will be part of the Unify Programme team of experts leading the design of global processes and their deployment within Imperial Brands, being supported by PwC and other relevant third parties (e.g. SAP).

From the technology standpoint the Unify Programme encompasses both SAP Central Finance module as well as wider SAP s4 Hana so the successful candidate will have an opportunity to contribute to both projects.

Key accountabilities

• Support the BPL in shaping M2C process design and roadmap for deployment in line with the Group’s vision.
• Contribute to the M2C process design by gathering stakeholder needs and expectations, translating them into global process and technology definitions and driving their adoption through ‘Fit to Standard’ workshops.
• Ensure the new global process designs deliver outputs meeting stakeholders’ requirements in terms of quality, compliance with Group Policies and local statutory and accounting regulations.
• To ensure effective implementation you will build understanding of change impact by gathering data on current operations (e.g. operational metrics, pain points, systems landscape) as well as track business readiness by working with the assigned teams within both CFIN and SAP s4 Hana projects of the Unify Programme.
• Contribute to the identification of consistent KPIs based on the newly design business processes and support the development and reporting of key metrics.
• Maintain strong relationships and partnerships with our key stakeholders such as Group Financial Control, Global Supply Chain, RCM Commercial teams, Group Internal Controls, Local & GBS Finance ensuring process designs meet their expectations.
• Provide guidance and deep-dive expertise to stakeholders where required acting as a go-to person for M2C processes.
• Continuously monitor best practice developments, in particular the enabling technology to support process improvement agenda.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Educated to degree level ideally in Finance, IT or Business Administration
• Experience/understanding of processes around customer onboarding and data, sales order processing, delivery, and invoicing customers
• Experience/understanding of customer credit, accounts receivable and cash application processes and their operational challenges.
• Knowledge of controls frameworks incl. segregation of duties and how these impact processes and roles performing those processes
• Analytical mindset to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations and with a Global focus.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative skills; being able to analyse data, draw conclusions, identify trends and issues, and diagnose root cause of issues.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning specifically SAP SD, FI.
• Proven verbal and written English communication skills
• The flexibility to undertake business travel as required

Desirable:

• Qualified accountant (5 + Years) or SAP SD, FSCM consultant
• Good stakeholder management, ability to shape and influence end state processes with senior stakeholders
• Experience of working across large, complex, matrix organisations and across multiple geographies and cultures
• Ability to move between high level and detail
• Knowledge of SAP ECC, SAP S/4 HANA, MS Dynamics, SAP FSCM or other ‘Best of Breed’ Accounts Receivable Tools
• Experience with Process Maps Tools, e.g. Visio, Signavio, Blueworks Live.Experience in Tobacco industry & Next Generation tobacco products

What we offer

Imperial Brands offer a competitive package of salary, bonus scheme, pension and 25 days holiday (with an additional 4 days on top to cover the Christmas period and bank holidays) and hybrid work.

Next steps

Interested applicants should apply with their CV highlighting their suitability for the role.