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GKN Automotive in Porto :

Estalished in 2020, our Global Business Services (GBS) is located at the heart of Porto (Hipercentro Areosa Business Park), where our 300+ employees provide support on a global level within areas of Finance, Procurement, HR and IT (to name a few).

Our vision is to deliver sustainable value with standard, consistent & digitally enhanced processes. To achieve this, we are seeking to attract highly motivated and skilled professionals.

We pride ourselves in being a truly global company, and GKN Automotive GBS in Porto has a relevant representation of that. Our workplace is diverse & inclusive and our locally based team is represented by individuals from 23 different countries.

We invest in our people and every employee has a development plan focused on their specific career and learning objectives. Career development is supported by relevant, sponsored technical learning, coaching, and access to self-driven training across a wide range of topics covering hard and soft skills.

Our culture is underpinned by our Values & Behaviours –Ingenious, Collaborative, Driven, Principled and and we are proud of the way that employees regularly have an opportunity to engage with others, provide ideas and work to develop these ideas to become a reality. It’s a place where our multi-discipline team's partner, collaborate, and learn from each other and the contribution of everyone counts.

We also support and encourage our employees to give back to the local communities through various activities. In recent years we have supported volunteering initiatives from the Portuguese Cancer League, Animal Farm Association to solidarity actions, making time and resources available to join efforts on these important events.

The Role:

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) to the Workstream Lead and Project Team on the as-is end-to-end business processes that are aligned to their workstream.
• Assist in making business decisions relating to system implementation, modification, maintenance, etc.
• Manage process performance evaluation and analysis provided by the standard Basware dashboard. 
• Review findings with the Global Business Process Owner to identify systemic opportunities that arise.
• Collate or create As-Is process documentation.
• Develop process training material and support implementation on training.
• Responsible for driving the day-to-day activities within their stream in accordance with the overall programme plan.
• Coordinate and direct the work / activities of all team members (core and extended) within their stream
• Identifies and escalates constraints, risks and issues to the Project Manager via the RAID log and report bi-weekly on the workstreams overall progress
• Delivery of detailed functional requirement and respective documentation. Documents interpretation of standard operating procedure to specific plant ERP process and recommends any variation or adjustment to standard operating procedure to the Global Business Process Owner.
• Works alongside the IT Business Analyst to convert detailed process in a given ERP environment to system configuration requirements.
• Contributes to and co-ordinates resource for User Acceptance Testing.  Reviews and contributes to system integration testing.

Specific Functional Capabilities, Knowledge and Skills Required

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Accounts Payable roles in a GBS environment
• Coordination skills, experience with leading team members.
• Experience in Process mapping is a plus
• Experience in Project management is a plus
• Proficient in accounting systems and softwares (Basware, QAD, other ERPs).
• Analytical and detail-oriented
• Familiar with financial documentation
• Structured and critical thinking
• Good communication skills and English proficiency (verbally and writing)
• Good collaboration skills to manage several project stakeholders
• Capability to anticipate scenarios, tracking project deliverables, identify issues, dependencies and risks timely according to project planning to meet defined deadlines and timely escalate to GPO.
• Can-do and positive attitude

Our Offer

This is an excellent opportunity to work in a truly multicultural environment and get involved in all phases of the global project lifecycle. We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package, including annual performance bonus & meal allowance, flexible working culture, birthday off & competitive annual leave allowances, private medical insurance, modern office facilities (social, dining, and relaxing areas), unlimited access to LinkedIn learning, Employee Assistance Program to our employees and family members, language courses and ongoing career progression and development support.

We are driving change in our sector, using our talents and experience to be a leader in finding new, sustainable solutions for the next phase of the automotive industry.

Our people are at the heart of our success. If these projects excite you and you like the chance to play a part in shaping the future of the automotive industry, that will benefit the environment and society as a whole, come and help us to accelerate the future, together.