ATR Process Steward - Revenue

ATR Process Steward – Revenue  

About the Role: 

At Boston Scientific, the Process Steward, reporting to the Global Division Finance Steward, is a pivotal role in leading and executing transformation initiatives and advancing the Accounting (ATR) change agenda and roadmap. The Process Steward is the end-to-end process expert and drives process improvement initiatives by utilizing the global process framework, benchmarking BSC processes against industry standards, and engaging in transformational programs for the end-to-end ATR process. Process Stewards are adept collaborators, exceptional communicators, and change agents, bringing extensive and diverse accounting experience and knowledge, along with strong stakeholder relationship management skills. 

The Process Steward will primarily be focused on the ATR area of Revenue, helping to drive standardization of global accounting practices. The Process Steward will help to map current state process flows and will propose standardization solutions with an appreciation for the unique commercial and/or product arrangements across Divisional portfolios. This role will approach the task with a lens towards GAAP compliance, strong internal control, and process efficiency.  

Your Responsibilities Include: 

• E2E process expert & facilitator of value improvement: drive improvement initiatives, design and update processes, and present them for approval. They conduct analytics, engage with stakeholders, and consider all dependencies to create comprehensive process designs. They collaborate across regions, divisions, and functions to balance needs and features. They analyze business challenges, apply best practices, and provide compelling business advice. They make recommendations, present project conclusions, monitor initiatives, and provide status updates to leadership. 

• GPL roadmap: The Process Steward serves as the primary point of contact for teams to collect and analyze ideas and improvement opportunities within their respective area of expertise. They support the Global Process Leader in assessing opportunities and prioritizing initiatives to maintain a roadmap of future initiatives within their respective areas.  

• Magellan: Partners with GPL, Finance Stewards, Magellan, Cross Functional SMEs, etc. to ensure a global template is built for each process including understanding functionality deployed in prior deployments, supporting evaluations of key functionality yet to be deployed, making recommendations for additional functionality needs, and ensuring the solution meets the divisional business needs. 

• Drive change: change champion for the global process framework, responsible for driving change within their end-to-end (E2E) space. They work closely with Finance Stewards to build strong working relationships and understand current practices to address regional, divisional, and functional issues or escalations. The Process Steward leads the implementation of process changes, ensuring successful execution and completion of assigned initiatives. They leverage feedback from various regions, divisions, and functions through the Finance Stewards and serve as a point of contact for improving the end-to-end process. 

• Performance measures: Collaborates with Finance and Process Stewards, transformational programs, service infrastructure, and service delivery teams to globally align metrics, scorecards, and other performance measures. They review performance metrics to conduct global internal benchmarking, identify potential process improvement opportunities, and determine future changes to introduce new or different metrics. The Process Steward works with all accounting teams and relevant stakeholders on items in their RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) log that presents process improvement opportunities and presents them to the GPL and ATR Process Council. 

• Drive governance: Responsible for driving governance by addressing process and performance escalations according to the escalation matrix. They take appropriate actions to resolve process breakdowns and prioritize improvement initiatives on the roadmap. The Process Steward presents compelling arguments for complex ideas and projects to councils and external stakeholders to persuade them to adopt recommendations when appropriate. 

What We’re Looking For: 
 
Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred 

• CPA, CMA, MBA or equivalent preferred 

• 10+ years progressive end to end accounting experience, what is most important is to focus on deep experience across many different areas within accounting. Preference for demonstrated success within Boston Scientific. 

• Technical skills: Business process improvement methodology (lean Six Sigma preferred). ERP experience (SAP S/4 preferred). Embodies a global mindset for the process. 

• Functional knowledge: Demonstrated application of accounting principles, local regulations (where required, and ability to ask the right questions) and financial analysis in the ATR/Accounting processes. Significant knowledge & experience with US GAAP, internal controls, and SOX 404 environment and how they impact the end-to-end process, financial statements, and financial statement assertions. 

• Problem-solving skills: Demonstrated superior problem-solving skills, ability to influence at all levels at BSC, flexible communication and consulting / collaboration skills, along with strong teaming and interpersonal abilities. Outstanding ability to diagnose problems related to process, technology, strategy, or people and put in place actions/measures and be able to articulate the problem simply/effectively to the stakeholders. 

• Strong financial acumen: Proficient in developing business cases for process improvement initiatives. 

• Strong leadership, executive presence and influencing skills: Strong leadership capabilities with the ability to motivate and impact teams (including teams that are not direct reports) working under tight timelines/budgets. Ability to influence executive level stakeholders. Possesses strong and effective communication skills and the ability to exert influence through collaboration and respect, even without formal authority. 

• Global experience: Demonstrated self-awareness of communication styles and cultural differences. 

• Consultative style: Ability to formulate and articulate a perspective and present it in a way that fosters understanding and alignment on both strategic to tactical issues. 

• Language: Fluent in English; additional languages are an asset. 

• Travel: Occasional; limited travel to other Boston Scientific sites may be required.