.Head of Operational Excellence - Site ControllingLocation: Manchester/Slough/Basle/VISP/PorrinoHybrid Working.Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there's no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that's the kind of work we want to be part of.Role Purpose:The job holder is a result and data driven professional with deep expertise and extensive experience in cross functional financial process,strong continuous improvement and change management background. This position supports the design and deployment of processes and assumes full ownership of operational support alongside project support and continues improvement initiatives within the End-to-End Site Controlling process (Inc. Revenue Recognition) across Divisions, Business Units as well as across geographies. They will lead and drive a broad change in systems and processes to improve process compliance, efficiency and effectiveness, enhancing the internal and external customer experience. Furthermore, the Head of OE keeps in touch with recent technology, innovation and Lonza's needs to further drive efficiency and automation of the processes.Key responsibilities:Support global vision, roadmap and objectives for the end-to-end process and technologyDrive global and high impact strategic projects determined by the Global Process Owners and Process Excellence organizationBuild strong relationships with key stakeholders across functions ensuring cross collaboration to deliver the best solutions,fostering frequent and transparent communicationsPro-actively identify and support process re-engineering and continuous improvement initiatives across multiple financially related processesAnalyse data and identify improvement opportunities, create hypotheses, and once validated manage the change process to ensure they are deployed and deployed with minimal disruption including adequate user trainingLeverage existing tools (LBMS) to manage the continuous improvement process efficientlyMonitor and test adherence to processes in place and address deviations in an efficient manner.Ensure appropriate and relevant controls are applied with the in scope processes, continuously monitor control requirements and drive appropriate control gap resolutionCreate and maintain Site Controlling and Revenue recognition processes documentationProvide coaching and trainings to Site Controlling and Revenue Recognition users in area of expertise, answer questions and give guidance to users as needed
