Sr. Finance Analyst, Accounts Payable COE

Sherwin-Williams
Cleveland, OH

The Sherwin Business Services (SBS) Sr. Finance Analyst is responsible for supporting Global Accounts Payable (AP) COE Sr. Manager. The Sr. Analyst will interact with all levels of business units, procurement, financial controllers and executive management. The Sr. Analyst will also serve as a key subject matter expert for strategic procure-to-pay (P2P) initiatives, including the enterprise-wide design, build and implementations, and other P2P technology implementations.

As the company integrates acquisitions and converts legacy systems, the Sr. Analyst will help define and implement the strategy, organization, policies and processes of future state operating model. This will require strong partnership with procurement, SBS Ops, DT, finance and business leadership to develop, update and/or enhance P2P solutions that are aligned with SBS objectives. The Sr. Analyst must have the ability to work in both 1) project management capacity and 2) detailed, hands-on process design capacity.

This role is not hybrid/remote and will report to our Hinckley Parkway location in Cleveland, OH. 

Because this role involves access to confidential financial information, the Company has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and to provide similar protections for its clients and potential investments.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS                                                                         

Help support SBS Global AP COE Sr. Manager and projects, including collaboration with all Global AP functional teams:

  • Assist with establishing and maintaining Global Policy and adherence process standards across the global accounts payable functional area and source to pay (STP) end to end process.

  • Contribute to thought leadership and inform process improvement opportunities based on execution of supported business processes and escalations received.

  • Help support Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the global accounts payable area managed and/or supported.

  • Act as a subject matter professional for aligned global accounts payable business processes supported and services.

    • Link strategy to current day-to-day operations and serve as a key role in the connection between continuous improvement and supported business activities.

  • Identify and support delivery of process-specific training, in partnership with SBS Ops team, to aid in the development of procedures and execution of global accounts payable functional area. 

  • Build relationships with leaders and key internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in delivery of the global accounts payable functional area.

    • Conduct root cause analysis of identified challenges and partner with business partners to remediate.
  • Represent service delivery team in related technology implementations (global design, decision rights, etc.)
  • Ensure consistent service delivery across global team.
  • Ensure and certify (as required) functional area’s internal controls are performed and operating effectively.
    • Work with services delivery team to remediate identified control deficiencies / track remediation.
    • Liaison with internal and external auditors 
  • Support quality reviews/audit of key controls, SLA’s, and end-to-end processes.
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