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Knowledge Analyst – Procurement
Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges? You’ve come to the right place.
Who You’ll Work With
You will be based in our Gurugram or Chennai office as part of our Procurement hub.
Procurement is a rapidly growing service line that helps organizations build competitive advantage through the development of world-class purchasing and supply management capabilities. Sustainable impact is our focus and how we measure our success. We focus on end-to end optimization that looks at total value capture, including strategic sourcing, global sourcing, supplier collaboration & innovation, procure-to-pay, organization design, and capability building.
Our client engagements span most industry sectors with a concentration in Automotive and Assembly, Basic Materials, Consumer Goods, Retail, Pharma, and Travel Transport & Logistics. We have completed over 2,300 Procurement engagements across the globe and all industries in the last 5 years.
Your impact within our firm
You will be a core member of Procurement hub with responsibilities that range from working on client engagements by driving a workstream for specific categories, most often under guidance of other content experts and developing cutting edge knowledge related to procurement domain.
In this role, you will be providing support to CSTs delivering key insights on content focused questions (spend analysis, TCO/ cleansheet costing, contract analysis, supplier identification, saving idea/lever identification, sourcing strategy, development, RFQ management and analysis, negotiation strategy development and tracking mechanism development).
You will also support client proposals and other client development activities and bring relevant knowledge and capabilities to clients. This role requires extensive travel to client location for >70% time within or outside India.
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor’s in Engineering/Technology; Master’s degree preferred with MBA from a reputed B-School with specialization preferably in Operations will be an added advantage
- 3+ years of relevant industry / consulting experience in procurement
- Strong understanding of purchasing, sourcing, supplier identification and management, vendor development, costing etc.
- Solid problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to understand the relevant analysis required to prove a hypothesis and ability to gather information around it and make informed/logical assumptions where required
- Basic understanding of research techniques, information sources, and statistical analysis/analytic techniques relevant to purchasing and operations
- Good business knowledge and solid understanding of economic, financial, and general business concepts and terminology
- Strong interpersonal skills, good team player
- Intellectual curiosity
- Strong written/verbal communications skills
- Strong proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and relevant analytics/statistical packages
- Knowledge / experience on e-procurement tools – spend analysis tools, RFQ tools, should costing / zero based costing, eAuctions, etc. will be added advantage
Finance Operation Manager – Global Payroll
Your impact within our firm
You will own all aspects of payroll operations and contribute to the function’s strategic direction based on internal and industry. You will own all aspects of payroll operations and contribute to the function’s strategic direction based on internal and industry knowledge.
In this role, you will be largely involved in payroll transformation – SAP payroll platform implementation for an in-house payroll for US and Canada including working & guiding through configuration, testing, and roll-out. The other part of the role will be to manage and improve the payroll operations (performance metrics, internal controls, compliance, automation, etc.), perform payroll-related duties, including ad hoc projects, system upgrades, and testing and assist with data requests as needed.
You will be responsible for developing and communicating team vision and goals, and you will build scalable processes to recruit, train and develop business professionals to support expansion. You will also act as an escalation point in resolving complex, outstanding issues with internal and external stakeholders. You will also be responsible for audit compliance and business controls, responsible for accurate recording of income for global taxpayers. You will provide high customer service when responding to payroll inquiries from members, management, and internal business partners with a high degree of integrity and confidentiality. You will need to resolve account balances and conduct audits and research.
You will be trained, and you will also be responsible for your team member’s professional development. You will manage the group workload and establish priorities. You will ensure existing policies and procedures are followed. You will manage the annual performance targets and create and monitor appropriate performance metrics. You will also lead performance review processes with senior leaders across functions.
Your qualifications and skills
- 12+ years of experience in Global Payroll (End-to-end)
- Exposure to large US & Canada based payroll system implementation will be preferred
- Proficient with payroll software – SAP (must have) experience; added advantage if having Lawson experience as well
- Payroll transformation experience required – including new system testing experience, pay comparison, parallel runs, ensuring data accuracy and archival and integrity
- Master’s degree in finance, business management, accounting, or a related field
- Strong project management experience and qualification will be added advantage
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
Project Finance Controller
Your qualifications and skills
- University degree, preferably in finance/accounting or business administration combined with sound knowledge in finance and accounting, preferably a chartered accountant
- 3+ years of experience in a similar role and environment (project accountant or project finance controller desirable) or/and experience in supporting management and leadership by providing insight, analysis, and financial results for review
- Proactive and tenacious in follow up; self-motivated, “can-do attitude”, results-oriented with a high level of integrity
- Solid working knowledge of MS Office programs – Excel, Access and PowerPoint; knowledge of SAP is an added advantage
- Excellent skills in solving problems, making decisions, and resolving conflicts
- Confidence in communicating with various levels of authority throughout the business (excellent communication skills to tailor messages over the phone and via email to senior partners, partners and associate principals)
- Excellent verbal and written language skills in English language