Finance Process Expert (all genders)

At Beiersdorf, we want to help people feel good about their skin – and our commitment goes far beyond caring for skin. For 140 years, we have developed innovative skin and body care products for well-known brands such as NIVEA, Eucerin, La Prairie, Hansaplast, and Labello. We act according to our purpose, WE CARE BEYOND SKIN, and take responsibility for our consumers, our employees, the environment and society.

Behind every brand, every product and every accomplishment are our more than 20,000 employees. It is for them that we live a culture of inclusion, respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values – CARE, COURAGE, SIMPLICITY and TRUST. We embrace diversity by valuing the uniqueness of each individual and being committed to equal opportunities for all.

This unique corporate culture also applies to the Global Finance Services (GFS) team at Beiersdorf Shared Services, The global Shared Services business partner within the Beiersdorf family. We leverage the business proximity and high integration into our partners’ ecosystem to always deliver maximum value. All of that with great people in a dynamic and international work environment offering various exciting development opportunities.

On a daily base, the Global Finance Digitalization & Automation Team is responsible for managing global projects on digitalization and automation of Finance processes. Additionally, the team drives process standardization and continuous improvement of existing solutions to ensure compliant and efficient execution of processes. As a part of this the Global Finance Digitalization & Automation Team provides process support, documentation and trainings.

Your Tasks

The Beiersdorf Shared Services GmbH provides the accounting service for more than 40 international affiliates of the BDF group.
As a member of the Global Finance Digitalization & Automation Team you are responsible to ensure global system maturity.
You continuously work on improvements, technical and procedural.
You are the bridge between IT and business, always implementing the best solution within reasonable time.
Automation and method based simplification are your main objectives.
By managing and supporting global projects you contribute significantly to our goal of being a proactive and challenging business partner.
You provide trainings and user support.
Reporting and analysis as parts of project or improvement measurement are also your tasks.
You travel the globe to counsel local finance organization or accounting service provider.

Your Profile

Our dedicated team is the right place for you when you are keen to be a challenging business partner for our customers.
You combine courage to go new ways with a high sense of ownership and responsibility.
You have excellent skills to work independent and method based.
The sentence "We always did it that way!" makes you curious so that you look beyond traditional procedures.
You help us to change our working environment in a way that we are well prepared for the digital future.
You have distinctive and convincing communication skills. You are a great team player.

Also you have:

Degree in economics or several years of relevant professional experience
Good knowledge in the fields of process improvement, automation and project management, ideally with additional qualification in lean management
Profound operational accounting / controlling knowledge
Sound understanding of integrative relationships in the SAP modules FI / CO and basic knowledge of the SAP modules SD and MM
Systematic, solution-oriented and coordinating way of working
Strong sense of quality and excellent numerical reasoning
Fluency in English, written and spoken
Technical affinity is in favour

Additional information

At Beiersdorf, we embrace Diversity and aim to provide equal opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of e.g. gender, sexual identity, nationality, ethnicity, religion or ideology, disability or age. We would therefore kindly ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae with relevant references and certificates).

For instance, please feel free to upload your CV without a picture. If you have any questions, please contact our recruiter Werner Nikolaiczek every Wednesday between 12.00 and 13.00 h via the telephone number: +49 40 4909 5717.

Job Details

Contract Type:: Limited, 2 Years / Full-Time
Country / City:: Germany / Hamburg
Company:: Beiersdorf Shared Services
Job ID:: 6000