Procure To Pay Process Transformation Manager

This is a Full Time Job

Procure to Pay (PTP) Process Transformation Manager

Procure to Pay (PTP) Process Transformation Manager
Job Description:

Manager, Process Transformation (Procure to Pay (PTP)

With its broad and diverse roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics and Warner Chappell Music, one of the world's leading music publishers with a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide.

For more than four decades, WMG has been an industry-leading force in providing a world-class array of services designed to help artists and labels grow their careers and their businesses. Artist & Label Services is the umbrella for WEA (Warner-Elektra-Atlantic) – the pioneering WEA distribution and marketing network – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.

A little bit about our team:

The Fully Implemented Transformation (FIT) team is a group of professionals across the WMG organization brought together to re-imagine our processes and systems to establish more standardized and efficient ways of working that will drive WMG's growth and business aspirations.

Why this could be your next big break:

The PTP Process Lead holds a global remit and is responsible for supporting defining the future state PTP processes and the measures that are aligned with the org. strategies, country specific knowledge and requirements. The process lead will strive to capture opportunities, reviewing existing and best practice workflow, tools and data. The role moves through design, architect, implementation, go-live and the steady state with an ongoing focus on continuous improvement and integration of finance process into the overall WMG landscape.

Here you'll get to:
• This role reports to the Senior Director Process Transformation (PTP).
• Support the transformation team by leading cross-functional and virtual teams in the review, design, development and implementation of global processes and procedures. Including invoice processing, operational procurement, vendor onboarding, disbursements, service desk, controls, reporting.
• Coordinate process meetings with internal change agents and 3rd party vendors through design, implementation and go-live.
• Leverage PTP and industry process and systems knowledge/experience to implement standardization of global, regional and/or local processes, challenging the status quo whilst taking input from SMRs and program partners to understand required localizations.
• Work with outside partners to build an internal and external facing service offering ticketing system.
• Track the design, documentation and ongoing socialization of processes.
• Obtain buy-in to the Finance Transformation from key WMG stakeholders across the globe by credibly communicating deep operating process and systems knowledge and an appreciation of the impact at a local level.
• Attend and/or present in update meetings as required for key decision/issue/risk points.
• Collaborate with individuals across a spectrum of the business to ensure Policy / Process / Procedure / System decisions take account of territory variances and business needs.
• Partner with IT to identify integration points between existing systems and processes.
• Partner with people and change management resources to develop job aids, communications and training approaches to embed new ways of working and systems training for the PTP area.
• Represent the PTP Business Process at individual Fit/Gap sessions in markets to ensure all business requirements are considered and documented. At the same time challenge any customization requests and progress via governance model in place.
• Updates relevant PTP documentation based on chan