Team Manager - Accounting Data & Digital Enablement

About the Role

Team Manager – GSSC Data & Digital Enablement is a strategic role within our Global Shared Service Center (GSSC), accountable for strengthening the end-to-end accounting data landscape and digital capabilities that support our internal customers across multiple Business Units (Hotel, Food, Manufacturing, Lifestyle, and others).

The primary objective is to ensure a “Single Version of Truth” for finance and accounting data by establishing robust data governance, clear ownership, and strong data quality controls across master and transaction data (e.g., chart of accounts, cost centers, vendor/customer, product/material, intercompany, and close-related datasets). This role embeds new tools and practical AI to help GSSC teams quickly detect trends, identify abnormal transactions, prioritize investigations, and resolve issues efficiently—while maintaining strong controls, auditability, and compliance with group accounting and data policies.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement accounting data governance for finance master and transaction data to improve accuracy, consistency, and traceability across Business Units and the GSSC.
• Partner with GSSC team leads and IT to manage master and transaction data maintenance (set-ups, changes, validations) with timely turnaround, proper controls, and clear ownership.
• Implement data quality checks, reconciliations, audit trails, and workflows to mitigate risks and ensure alignment with group accounting policies and reporting standards.
• Analyze accounting and shared service workflows (payment, tax, reconciliations, intercompany, master data maintenance) to remove manual work, reduce cycle time, and strengthen continuous monitoring and exception management.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, controls, automation, and analytics use cases, including exception monitoring, anomaly detection, investigation workflows, and root-cause analysis templates.
• Develop scalable datasets and analyses to help GSSC teams spot trends and detect abnormal transactions early (e.g., unusual postings, duplicate invoices, unexpected vendor/payment patterns, out-of-threshold variances).
• Continuously improve finance monitoring solutions (rules/thresholds, exception queues, alerts, dashboards) to prioritize, investigate, and close issues faster with consistent logic and audit trails.
• Work with automation and IT teams to apply Generative AI and analytics techniques to support inquiries, trend analysis and exception investigation while adhering to data privacy, access, validation, and audit requirements.
• Partner with Automation/RPA and IT to deliver automations that improve accounting data quality and efficiency (reconciliations, variance analysis, master data requests) built on governed data and clear controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, MIS, or a related field.
• At least 5–8 years of experience in finance data and/or transformation roles, with experience supporting multiple internal customer groups across Business Units.
• Demonstrated experience establishing finance data definitions, governance, controls, and SOPs that improve reporting accuracy and close performance.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Fluent in English both writing and speaking.