Beschreibung
For our client based in Düsseldorf we are looking for a freelance Financial Management/ IT Consultant (m/f/d).#Project description:
The objective of Contract and IT Sourcing Management is to source all relevant IT-Services that are to be provided from the clients IT’s Strategic ensuring budget adherence and fulfilment of supplier’s obligations. In this context the Financial Management Team is acting as a bridging function ensuring transparent and aligned cost management for IT infrastructure run as well as license costs. Due to the respective harmonization initiative aims for a consolidated cost management to ensure e2e process excellence as well as an efficient daily business continuity.
The services mentioned in the task description will be provided within the framework of an agile development method.
The services shall be provided within the framework of an agile development method. The concrete activities required in each case to implement the services commissioned shall be agreed iteratively between the parties within the framework of sprint meetings and implemented by the consultant within the respective sprints following the sprint meetings.
#Role:
The external colleague needs to be able to evaluate overarching process dependencies by monitoring the daily business, to capture process gaps and advise the Financial Management Team on process optimization & automation and the client does not have that kind of resource internally. Therefore, the external consultant has a unique position compared to the client's internal project staff and provides significantly different services than the internal staff.
#Tasks & Skills:
• Based on own expertise, identification of process improvements for drawing together information coming from the respective service owners and stakeholders, with the aim of defining expected consumption values and the resulting cost. Subsequent implementation of these improvements. Getting approval from Financial Management Team before implementation.
• Continuous update with actual consumption data of teams internal Data base as a common and centrally governed financial management tool with daily rolling forecasting.
• Advise on identified gaps in the planning, definition of counter measures on how to close existing gaps and how to structurally avoid them for the future.
• Analyze the ongoing process optimization in terms of hardware planning and derive commercials related synchronizations. Based on findings, advise on how these processes can be further standardized and stabilized. Getting approval from FM Team before implementation.
• Optimize and standardize the invoice planning overview and aligned processes by maintaining a transparent purchase order overview, a tracking file for the status of invoices.
- Analysis for potential further optimization and standardization with regards on existing automated & robotics solutions. This includes the below subtasks:
• Define measures on how to further standardize and stabilize existing automated process runs with regards to financial planning and aligned invoicing processes, based on own expertise. Present results to FM Team.
• Verify volume and cost related planning activities (esp. forecasting- and mid-term planning) on how these processes can be further standardized and stabilized.
• Consult the FM team on maintaining robotics solutions in handling automated purchase ordering.
• Analyze and advise on further synchronization initiatives, especially with regards to different corporate toolsets, like SAP, MS and further applications with the goal to achieve data consistency and consolidated data base.
• Strong stakeholder management experience and financial management experience, excellent analytical skills, used to managing in complex environments - Excellent technical skills in Microsoft office & cloud environment and business process management tools (SAP)
• Fluent in English, German is nice to have
#Key Facts:
Start: 15th April 2024
End: 31.12.2024
-> Fulltime
Location: Remote (max. 4-5 Onsite meetings in Düsseldorf & Hannover during the duration of that project
If you are interested in this vacancy, I look forward to receiving your recent CV and your hourly rate.