Fspm Coordinator

**Background**:
The Finance Breakthrough (FBT) has delivered a new integrated environment for the financial flows in SAP in Europe.
The Finance division has build a team to maintain and enrich the financial processes and systems, overlooking at the flows end to end and ensuring continuous improvement in a sustainable way.

**Objectives of the Department**:

- The team is the Business Process Owner (BPO) of the various financial flows such as: Record to Report (R2R), Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to Pay (P2P), Management Reporting, Controlling, Planning/Budgeting/Forecasting, Consolidation and Business Intelligence.
- As BPO, the team is in charge of documenting the process flows end to end (understanding inputs, outputs, transformations/business rules and workflows), identify best practices and areas of improvements, make recommendations, and lead the change in line with business requirements and company strategy.
- This team is responsible of the financial masterdata including: Chart of Account, Management reporting structure, Cost Centers, Cost Elements, Profit Centers.
**o Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)**: SAP primarily FI and CO modules,

**o Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution**: currently Tagetik,

**o Business Intelligence (BI) solutions**: currently Business Objects and Tableau.
- The team will be in charge of reviewing the financial Request For Change or any Request for Change impacting the financial flows (it includes Business Request for Change, Service requests and Incidents) and of ensuring their alignments with the Finance vision, FBT design and any agreed improvements. The team will support arbitration and prioritization if need be. The team will be responsible in driving all the resolution stages from a business perspective: clarify the requirements, follow the development, lead the testing, and support implementation and adoption.
- The team will support all projects impacting financial processes or systems. Its role will vary depending on the project: Business Project Manager, Business Analyst, or Consultant/SME. The nature of the project can vary: business improvement, technology improvement, compliance, modification driven by another project... and the team may intervene in all the phases of the project (initiate, plan, execute, close). Here are some examples of projects with involvement of the team:
**o Ongoing projects**: Milky Way, COPA=FI, Tagetik, NESAP Decommissioning, Archiving, I2I, G2G NOAS

**o Upcoming projects**: Alias, Arcadia, S/4 Hana, Central Finance

**o Global projects**: Alias, NEXT Finance,

The team reports to the VP Finance and is in direct relation with:

- the finance community mainly accountants and controllers in the entities, HQ and SSC,
- the process owners of the upstream or downstream processes and systems (for example SD, MM, IMS2, UVMS, Scope, NIVOS, GASS, Prorex),
- the IS department mainly Capability fulfilment (BRM, Software factory and Service delivery including SMAF, NSO and RNTBCI).

**Main Tasks & Responsibilities**:
Business Process Ownership
- Drive standardization, harmonization and optimization of the business process in one or several areas P2P, OTC, R2R
- Map current “end to end” processes and design “to-be” and make the inventory of the reports
- Identify issues and area of improvements, propose action plans
- Review and document the financial posting schemes
- Insure consistency between entities
- Insure alignment with consolidation principles
- Set golden rules, track and reduce any deviations to standards and Core model
- Manage Knowledge Management (Tacit
- Explicit) and documentations: BPH, Processes, Training Material
- Contributes with the Product owners in defining user rights and appropriate authorization profiles for all financial SAP transactions and other systems

Participation in Projects and Change Management
- Review all change requests and projects
- Ensure the alignment with accounting principles, consolidation guidance and reporting requirements
- Actively participate in the scoping and design of the solution making the bridge between the business requirements and its translation in technical terms
- Review and approve all design documents of all solutions (Change Request and projects) before development
- Role in projects will vary depending on the project (area/skills/complexity): Business Project Manager, Business Analyst, or Consultant/SME.
- Support test scenario creation and testing strategy, may also lead Central Key Users

Reporting and methodology
- Keeps key stakeholders in central and local finance management team informed of status and related issues
- Establish and communicates status reports and dashboards according to reporting processes defined by the central management team
- Ensures Nissan project methodology is followed, establish project rules and procedures in close coordination with all parties (IS, supplier, business)

Montigny Le Bretonneux Yvelines France