Job Overview
Join to apply for the GPM Senior Product Specialist AFC role at HEINEKEN Global Shared Services. At HEINEKEN Kraków, our success comes directly from our great people. We are a growing team of business experts in finance, accounting, data and technology ready to -“WOW-” the world with our expertise, passion and pride to be GREEN. We act on our values of Passion for consumers & customers, Courage to dream & pioneer, Care for people & planet, Enjoyment of Life, always focused on being ourselves: inclusive, diverse, and open for new challenges.
Responsibilities
- Supporting Product Owner in proactive managing respective finance product
- Working as part of product team to increase the product value and realize product backlog
- Providing specialized E2E process and product knowledge to internal and external stakeholders
- Validating the process designs
- Translating process standards into solutions and supporting technology
- Identifying, owning and driving product related improvements
- Proposing redesigns of existing processes and implementation of new functionalities based on improvement opportunities
- Assessing change requests (CRs, BRDs) to implement new functionalities and driving the implementation
- Day‑to‑day product maintenance – monitoring business changes to be implemented and providing D&T with requests and information required for implementation
- Analyzing issues and incidents before they are handed over to D&T or product solution provider
- Providing functional/business assessment of issues and incidents
- Performing functional/business testing of new or fixed functionalities (D&T performs technical testing as a first step, then it must be handed to functional support)
- Coordinating UAT with key users
- Ensuring process changes are properly implemented using the release management procedure
- Delivering refreshment trainings to key and end users
- Keeping training materials up to date
- Supporting system upgrades, new service packs and new notes implementation
- Supporting globally driven changes impacting the tool set‑up, e.g. new IFRS implementation
- Acting as a first point of contact for escalations
- Guiding OpCos in scope to follow the standard process
- Ensuring process changes are modeled/updated in HEPM
- Ensuring OpCo maintains compliance with Data Management Standards
- KPIs/PPIs measurement (quality, time, etc.)
- Measuring template usage
- Close cooperation with RAP and GA&R teams to drive complex RTR topics impacting product design
- Providing financial and accounting expertise within the product team and towards OpCos
- Providing financial consolidation expertise towards OpCos and external product team stakeholders
- Supporting OpCos during acquisitions, disposals and other structural changes
- Analyzing reported figures in balance sheet and P&L to support complex query resolution
- Proposing improvements in product and process based on critical analysis of financial figures
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Management Accounting or Management Information Systems
- Deep understanding of finance processes, including end‑to‑end Record to Report (RtR) and Period End Close (PEC) processes
- Proven experience with Runbook/Cadency/BlackLine/AF C closing task modules
- Familiarity with financial software and tools such as S/4HANA
- Understanding and knowledge of Heineken RtR Global Standards, like Design Book, templates, and procedures
- Effective communication skills for explaining complex financial concepts to non‑financial stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively with various departments and stakeholders to support financial processes in line with global requirements
- End‑to‑end knowledge and expertise related to the process area of the product
- Ability to understand the end‑to‑end process strategy, apply it to tasks and responsibilities, and explain it to stakeholders
- Knowledge and expertise in finance products:
- SAP Advanced Financial Closing – process period end close
- Group Financial Reporting product – intracompany and local consolidation, supported by ICMR and SAP GR
- BlackLine – balance sheet account reconciliation
- Proven experience with exposure to multiple tools and methodologies and familiarity with an ERP system
- Strong analytical and project management skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills, strategic thinking, effective time management
- Ability to communicate well with technical and non‑technical stakeholders
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Product Management and Marketing
Industries
- Food and Beverage Services
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