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Iron Mountain DACH Remediation Team Lead (9 months contract) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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THE OPPORTUNITY
Title: DACH Remediation Team Lead (Director level role)
Fixed term contract: 9 months of engagement with possible extension
Location: Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic
Work type: remote
Global Finance
The Global Finance Organization’s five functional areas report to the Chief Financial Officer. Our mission is to protect value through maintenance of a robust audit, control, and accounting environment; to deliver value through customer-focused, efficient finance transactions processes; to create value through proactive performance management, appropriate capital allocation, insightful analysis, tax and treasury optimization, and effective business development; and to promote value through high quality investor information and communication. Global Finance’s functional areas include Global Accounting, Business Partners (Global Records and Information Management (RIM) and Global Luxury Entertainment Arts Management (GLEAM), Data Center Finance, Corporate Finance, and Investor Relations.
Primary purpose of the role:
A very exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Task Force team, as the DACH Remediation Team Lead!
You will lead a multifunctional task force (up to 15 FTE) to improve our order to cash process in DACH countries.
Your role in our mission:
- Ultimate target is to reach 99% of invoices issued accurately the first time for DACH countries => for Germany it means to go down from 160 av. corrections per month to 20 av. corrections
Significant reduction in the number of necessary corrections will effectively reduce workload from all the departments involved into disputes - CSM (Commercial), Billing and Collection, Operations, Care and accelerate collection process. It will also reduce number of disputes with clients and improve customer satisfaction
Restore contracts with clients responsible for 80% of revenue in DACH countries (420 clients), validate key master data ( reconcile and clean types of services and their rates in the IM systems (SF, Ops systems and Oracle) with clients' legal documents)
Locate physical or scanned copies of the valid contracts; in the case of absence either contact clients for their copies (searching for clients contact details also could take an effort) or initiate a signature of a new document with a client
Systems clean up: (i) ensuring that customer information settings are correct across the various system; ii) set a history of previous price increases
Scan restored contracts to create a repository and database
Collecting customer critical master data ( 42 items of customer metadata, i.e. indexation clause, contract duration, SLA etc.) Identification of historical, nonstandard for IM requirements in the contracts
Clean and reconcile clients Hierarchies across Sales Force, Ops systems and Oracle in line with Lightspeed recommendations
Eliminate many duplicated or obsolete accounts across the systems - one of the causes of billing mistakes - invoices are raised to wrong accounts..
Reconcile AR balance and Inventory balance with clients responsible for at least 50% of DACH revenue - 35 clients in Germany out of 1900; 35 clients in CH out of 1000; 20 clients in Austria out of 600) in total 90 clients
Reconciliation between inventory at IRM location and inventory in the contract versus in the system and subaccount ( changes in inventory ownership)
Reconciliation of total turnover with the clients and agreement on the outstanding balances invoice by invoice before they get into disputes
Identify key root causes of wrong invoices and influence processes upstream to have a permanent fixture
In the current BAU set up, none of the functions is responsible for identification of the real root cause of a wrong invoice. Current root cause analysis process is rather formal and usually finishes at the first "why" of the mistake.
Every participating function stays with their own opinion about why this or that has happened. It could be explained by the complexity and entanglement of the current processes, none of the function has a holistic overview to connect the dots and identify real root causes of particular problems
Usually it is not one particular action, but a combination of actions of different participants. That's why getting to the bottom of the issue is a time consuming effort and usually the solution will require changes throughout the whole process, with changes in the way of doing in every function participating in the E2E revenue recognition process.
This is a complex change management and administrative task, none of BAU functions has resources and expertise to take a lead on root causes identification, solutions development and coordination of solutions implementation. This will be a goal for the task force team.
Functional Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies :
Good written and verbal communication skills in English and desirably in German as well ·
Strong Accounting expertise (revenue accounting, AR reconciliations) - ACCA, CIMA
Experience of running multi-functional projects, process improvement projects with defined goals; project management experience is a must
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate and resolve discrepancies
Continuous improvement mind-set open for challenges and focus on efficient solution
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance or any related course
10 years’ experience in Finance, Accounting, Project management
Strong communication and team management skills
Strong organizational skills - ability to process high volumes of information, structure the “so what’s” and implications
Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and deliver results
Strong organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple project related tasks concurrently
Ability to identify errors and indicate the root cause with proposed solution (quick wins and long – term goals)
Good written and oral communication skills – English
Good written and oral communication skills – German - desirable
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Competitive Total Rewards: supporting your career at Iron Mountain, family, personal wellness, and wellbeing. (Local benefits may vary based on country-specific policies.)
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