Our Regional Finance Team is seeking a highly motivated Accounts Payable (AP), Travel & Expenses (T&E) Regional Process Owner – to help lead and shape AP/T&E processes for the region for all foodpanda’s verticals (i.e. Platform and New Verticals).

Your Key Objectives

• Build and lead a service delivery team to service all 11 APAC markets + Regional Offices
• Own and drive operational excellence [i.e. standardisation, automation] and ensure superior customer services
• Support the transition/onboarding of new markets/processes into the Shared Service Centre.
• Drive process/functional governance [i.e. SLA/KPI Performace, Issue mgmt, projects prioritisation]

Responsibilities

The Accounts Payable (AP), Travel & Expenses (T&E) Regional Process Owner will be located at either of our regional offices in Manila, Philippines..

Primary:

• Collaborate with process stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient process operations.
• Build a regional Shared Service Centre to support all markets.
• Own and manage the service delivery and performance with defined SLAs/KPIs.
• Prioritisation of Transformation projects and providing inputs that will drive process-related investment decisions and implementation
• Ensuring the process complies with any regulations and internal controls/risk management measures
• Present performance results to relevant stakeholders in relevant governance forums (e.g. Monthly, Quarterly Business Review…etc)

Others:

• Sets the vision & strategic direction, and maintenance of the Service Catalogue/Taxonomy
• Ensure maintenance of process documentation (i.e. Process models, Standard Operating Procedures)
• Liaise with Central (Delivery Hero), Regional and GRC on managing relevant policies and procedures affecting AP/T&E processes
• Assess change requests, prepare decision making and foster implementation
• Actively help to solve systemic or complex issues and problems in an effective manner
• Support internal and external audits

Basic Qualifications:

• University degree in Economics, Finance, Business Management or equivalent
• 10+ years of relevant AP/T&E functional experience (either in operations or process ownerships),
• Strong analytical skills, solid communication and presentation skills
• Experience working in a multi-national environment with a complex regional/country environment (preferably within the Tech Industry)

Preferred Qualifications / Experiences / Knowledge:

• Professional certifications such as CA, ACCA, etc.
• Worked in a Finance Shared Service Centre
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence, persuade and drive action.
• Demonstrable experience leading and managing teams
• Process-oriented with an understanding of both financial and operational controls
• Familiar with key systems; Ariba, SAP and Concur
• Strong analytical skills and can foresee upstream and downstream impacts
• Proficient with Google Suite and/or Microsoft applications for analysis and reporting
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• A creative mindset and a willingness to question assumptions and conventional wisdom.