Global Process Manager Travel & Expense (T&E) (f/m/d/x)

Join GEA and make a positive impact: From safe food and beverages to life-saving medicines, GEA makes it possible. We also help our customers reduce CO2 emissions, protect water, and reduce and recycle waste.

Within our BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) Finance team we are looking for a qualified and motivated Global Process Manager Travel & Expense (T&E) (f/m/d/x) at our location Düsseldorf to fill this position at the next possible date.

Your tasks:

• Become an integral part of the BPO Finance strategy team for the transformation of the transactional finance processes

• Own the global end to end Travel & Expense process and be responsible for the standardization of the process including technology design (e.g. travel claim and reimbursement management, country specific legal requirements, company policies, internal controls)

• Ensure key interfaces between BPO and retained Finance organization

• Ability to link data analyses to the process and business operating model and identify efficiency and effectiveness drivers

• Responsibility to independently drive standardization and improvement projects at T&E processes as a project manager

• Ensure implementation of designated improvement potentials and monitoring for sustaining results

• Apply leading practices in the area of T&E

• Responsibility for creating and providing executive presentations on project status and outcome

• Membership in a dynamic and international team that supports Finance top management

• Perform other duties as assigned

• Master´s degree in Business, Finance or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in  Finance operations and project management

• Advanced understanding of T&E end to end process at key stroke level

• Strong willingness to work into detailed process analysis and system implications
• Proven track record of leading transformative projects with diverse stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal German and English skills, ability to coordinate work in a complex environment combined with presentation and communication skills
• Knowledge and experience in Business Process Outsourcing / Shared Service Center beneficial

• In-depth understanding of SAP and other ERP solutions as well as Concur or other travel management applications
• Willingness to travel

• Ability to deliver results under pressure

• MS Office (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and process tools knowledge

We offer:

• Work with a supportive and international team
• Modern working environment with flexible working options and home office for a good work-life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional training and development opportunities for your career planning
• Company pension scheme and accident insurance
• 30 days annual leave plus 24 & 31 December
• Attractive company benefits such as discounts on gym memberships,  courses, etc.
• JobRad including subsidy
• Good access to public transport and a subsidy for public transport use

*For reasons of readability, no gender-specific differentiation is made in the job advertisement. However, the job advertisement is explicitly aimed at all persons, regardless of gender or lack thereof.