DWS - Senior Finance Manager (Strategy & Process Excellence) - VP

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Finance Manager (Strategy & Process Excellence)
Division: DWS
Location: Manila

Corporate Level : Vice President

Overview:

DWS is one of the world’s leading investment management organisations, offering individuals and institutions traditional and alternative investments across all major asset classes.  It is undergoing a period of substantial and exciting change. DWS listed as a public company on the Frankfurt stock exchange in March 2018. DWS is now undertaking a significant transformation to implement state-of-the-art infrastructure aligned to the needs of an asset manager.

The CFO Division of DWS has presence in Frankfurt, London, New York and Asia and is responsible for ensuring the sound risk management and financial governance of DWS. The CFO Division comprises Risk, Investor Relations, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Integrated Reporting, Regional CFO teams, Tax, Capital & Liquidity Management, Finance Director teams for the Investment Platform, Coverage and Infrastructure functions and the COO team.

Key Responsibilities:

As part of the DWS CFO Strategy Team, this role will help drive operational and process excellence and divisional control oversight with the following key responsibilities:

• Drive Lean Six Sigma initiatives to optimize processes and process automation.
• Partner with Global Process Owners to define, document, and maintain standard global processes and ensure consistency, standardization and scalability across finance.
• Maintain process documentation and governance – process maps, standard operating procedures, and work instructions.
• Drive the design and enforcement of process controls to ensure compliance within CFO.
• Process Performance Management – Define and monitor KPIs/metrics.
• Establishing relationship and working collaboratively across other DWS functions to ensure alignment on data management strategies with organizational goals and to promote data-driven culture across organization.
• Support and align with DWS Head of CFO Strategy to ensure organizational objectives on process excellence, data excellence and control oversight is met.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience on design, implementation and maintenance of comprehensive system of internal controls to prevent financial risks and regulatory compliance
• Experience on control oversight function including risk and findings management
• Ability to map, analyse, and optimize complex processes across functions.
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Knowledge in SAP is a plus.
• Change management skills to drive adoption of process changes and control implementation
• Strategic thinking with an enterprise-wide perspective
• Leadership in establishing and embedding process ownership, governance and controls
• Lean Six Sigma Certified (Green Belt or Black Belt) – with experience applying it to Finance processes.
• Certified Public Accountant is a plus.
• Control Certifications (SOX or its equivalent) is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with experience in explaining complex processes and issues clearly and concisely to Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.
• Structured, organized, and results-oriented approach, demonstrating a high level of diligence and attention to detail.

DWS is an equal opportunity employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital / civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, colour, sexual orientation, or disability.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any concerns about the application process, please contact your recruiter.