Finance Process Deployment Lead (Open to Remote)

Job ID: 271587
Date posted: 07/12/2023
Location: Olathe, Kansas | Winnipeg, Canada | Wayzata, Minnesota

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Finance Process Deployment Lead will coordinate efforts to define product line specific business requirements, implement improved business processes, ensure successful deployment of the new enterprise resource planning systems and enhancements, coordinate systems and process testing, train system users and assist with functional stabilization efforts for our grain and crush processing businesses. In this role, you will be part of an end to end team working through implementation of different business processes across various business segments and will require collaboration and teamwork within the business, global information technology and corporate functions.

**This role offers a remote work option within North America.**

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the implementation of system and process deployment and ensure consistent implementation of system configuration and processes throughout the organization are reviewed and approved by process sponsors.
• Identify and lead optimization activities, partnering with subject matter experts and super users across the product line and promote process change in the organization.
• Ensure that implemented design and process changes are aligned with the internal control framework and the global process organization.
• Develop the integrated project plan and ensure organizational readiness and commitment to ongoing enhancements, optimization and value realization activities.
• Define deployment objectives and scope and measure and monitor project progress to identify variances from the plan and make needed corrections for implementation, resolving issues independently.
• Implement, maintain and communicate metrics to track solution stabilization and value captured through optimization initiatives.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Strong analytical skills capable of breaking down complex issue to identify key drivers and upstream and downstream impacts
• Confirmed ability to lead, coach, facilitate and communicate with individuals across a broad range of education, experience and functional spectrums to manage expectations and drive organizational and process change
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill within the United States or Canada.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of experience in a supervisory or management position
• SAP experience or SAP implementation experience
• Advanced English language in both verbal and written communication
• Fluent in the Spanish language in both verbal and written communication

Canada Applicants: Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.

US Applicants: Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.