EMEA Commercial Finance Operations Continuous Improvement Leader
Listed on 2026-10-15
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Business
Change Management, Business Systems & Technology Analysis
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What you'll do:The Continuous Improvement Leader is accountable for driving process simplification, standardisation, and automation across Commercial Finance Operations, ensuring that close, forecasting, Rev Rec, and project finance processes are sustainable, scalable, and cadence-safe. The role acts as the change engine within CFOps, removing structural inefficiencies and manual work, and supporting other Commercial Finance pillars where process improvements enable better execution - without absorbing operational ownership.
processes
Identifies root causes of inefficiency, rework, and cadence risk Ensures improvements are practical, adopted, and measurable
Impact: CFOps execution becomes simpler, faster, and more reliable.
Eliminates manual workarounds that threaten close and forecast integrity
Ensures improvements never compromise control, auditability, or timing
Impact:
Cadence is protected by design, not effort.
Clarifies interfaces, inputs, and outputs to reduce friction between pillars
Does not take ownership of pillar-specific execution or decision support
Impact:
Cleaner hand-offs and fewer downstream fixes.
solutions
Reduces reliance on spreadsheets, manual reconciliations, and ad-hoc fixes
Ensures solutions scale across countries and ledgers
Impact:
Sustainable improvements embedded in systems, not people.
Coaches teams on problem-solving and process thinking
Creates a repeatable improvement pipeline rather than one-off projects
Impact:
Continuous improvement becomes a capability, not an initiative.
Owns Continuous improvement roadmap for CFOps processes;
Lean methodology and execution for process transformation
Does not own Operational execution of close, forecast, or Rev Rec;
Strategic business partnering or analytics;
Deal governance or pricing decisions
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Engineering, or a related field7-10+ years of experience in finance operations, accounting, or FP&A environments,
with hands-on delivery of process improvement initiatives
Proven background applying Lean / Continuous Improvement methods to financial processes (close, forecasting, accounting, or adjacent operational flows) in complex, multi-country organisations
Strong background in Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement methodologies applied to finance processes
Hands-on experience improving financial close, forecasting, or accounting-adjacent processes
Understanding of finance systems and data flows (e.g. SAP-based environments) sufficient to enable automation
Ability to translate process improvements into system and control-compliant solutions
Strong execution focus and pragmatism - delivers change, not frameworks
Ability to influence without formal authority in…
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