Essential duties & responsibilities:

• Deployment of the Process Excellence Model across finance services areas and provide to support to achieve maturity

• Keep abreast for new opportunities to simplify and improve data gathering.

• Deploy the Lean Six Sigma training across the Site.

• Provide training in CI methodologies and mentoring in LSS projects / initiatives to deliver business impact and efficiency goals within the organization. Help analyze & quantify results of LSS projects

• Sustain the Quality Management System across the Centers

• Facility improvement workshops to drive business impact

• Act in the capacity of a business analyst to identify and prioritize business optimization.

• Complete end to end process review across Stryker’s Shared Service Centers, identifying areas for standardization. 

• Develop improvement projects / ideas for processes linked to all key finance processes

• Lead the headcount analysis for migrations through statistical analysis. Support the process mapping and capacity analysis for migrations. Lead the change management strategy to build and sustain the process excellence culture.

Education & special trainings:

• ​​Minimum of a B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Finance and accounting degree with CI experience or similar disciplines.

• ​Experience in process mapping session, BPMN and VSM

• ​Fluent spoken and written English. Any other language is a plus

• ​Knowledgeable in Minitab, R and other statistical software

• ​Lean Six Sigma Certified (Green Belt - Black Belt)

• ​Experience in improvements in Finance (invoice to cash, invoice to pay, accounting to report functions)

• ​PMP / Agile Certified is a plus

• ​Data Analytics is a plus

• ​Knowledge in Power Bi​

Qualifications & experience:

• ​​Over 5 years in the field of continuous improvement driving projects through Lean Six Sigma methodologies.

• ​Experience with Finance process, one or more workstreams (I2C, I2P, R2R)

• ​Capable to manage stakeholders at different levels of the organization, identify customer requirements (CTQ) in projects, management communication. Excellent negotiation skills to interact with stakeholders

• ​Experience deploying Process Excellence models (Shingo or similar) in Service Center environments; Assist with change strategy development and the implementation into the organization

• ​Provided training in Continuous Improvement methodologies and tools

• ​Experience in the A3 thinking

• ​Experience in leading improvement workshops (Kaizen Events) from opportunity, analysis (FMEA, Value stream mapping), root cause analysis, brainstorming for solution and implementation

• ​Familiar with deployment on RPA OR Automation strategies and its relationship to a CI framework. Support on change management. Experience creating process flow diagrams and technical specifications for RPA projects

Physical & mental requirements:

• ​​Ability to work well with cross-functional teams, multi-task and meet deadlines consistently

• ​Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, attention to detail and ability to communicate complicated issues effectively

• ​Demonstrated ability to perform consistently under varying business pressure as well as ability to adapt to a quickly changing environment

• ​Effective problem-solving skills