You want to drive change and establish business process excellence at ZEISS? This position provides you with the opportunity to work on one of ZEISS' key group programs and to shape our S/4HANA greenfield business transformation to drive harmonization and standardization of processes and structures that define the way how ZEISS will work for years to come. You will take responsibility to achieve the best solution for ZEISS, balancing individual functional and segment needs by improving the Record-to-Report End-to-End process, working on topics such as:

P&L design, incl. line-items and dimensions for 360-degree analytics of management units, markets products and customers

Product cost planning on plant level and the determination of product costs from global ZEISS group perspective

Internal accounting and performance management of different ZEISS business models

Month-end closing of individual legal entities and the integration with next generation consolidation

ZEISS standard chart of accounts and accounting manual design incl. asset, lease and tax accounting

You will take on a moderating and leadership role, understanding and mastering the individual processes in collaboration with ZEISS functions and process experts in a goal-oriented manner. You will steer and orchestrate external consulting support within your workstream. In addition, you will exchange information with your fellow workstream leads to ensure best practice sharing and integration into related processes or systems (e.g., CRM) and report your results to the overall program management. You own the alignment of the workstream progress with the overall program plan, ensure planning, implementation, and improvement measures of your workstream and thus make a significant contribution to the overall project success.

a Masters degree in Finance, Business Administration, industrial engineering or a similar field of study

proven experience managing projects in business process excellence - experience with SAP ERP transformations and esp. Finance & Controlling

results-oriented, analytical and organizational skills paired with strong change communications skills to develop and successfully implement strategic plans

a strong change management perspective

strong German and English skills, both written and spoken

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