Operational Excellence and Financial Process Improvement Specialist

Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.

You will be a key member of the finance team within the Front office in Canada /Quebec / Ville St-Laurent. Reporting to the Front Office Finance Manager you will provide support to the business, while working with Centers of Excellence and with the Canadian Front Office Finance Team. Most of your work will focus on special projects and process improvements, a small portion will focus on routine financial and non-financial reporting. You will also be documenting and maintaining standard operating procedures and ensuring that they are safeguarded, communicated and available.

Your responsibilities

• Participate in special projects such as business integrations, acquisitions, finance tool implementations and ERP upgrades.
• Lead/Participate in user acceptance testing activities, document test cases and record test results
• Develop, implement, and maintain accounting processes and procedures, continuously optimize them to gain efficiency, simplify processes, and adapt to accounting policy changes.
• Maintain the Country’s Finance share points and web portal.
• Support the Finance team by providing recommendations on how to meet the needs of internal customers and fulfil targets set by the Global Finance lead and local management.
• Prepare and maintain onboarding and training documents for new finance members
• Prepare financial and non-financial monthly and quarterly reporting such as KPI
• Contribute to the knowledge transfer of best practices within the team
• Living ABB’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues, and the business.

Your background

• Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation is an asset, accounting knowledge required.
• Problem-solving skills, highly organized with good planning abilities.
• Leadership, dynamism, great communication skills, autonomy, and self-starter.
• Change management and process improvement skills, six sigma training is an asset.
• Experience in large complexes organization.
• SAP experience is an asset, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Power BI.

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Accident insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program

More about us

We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the 8th year in a row, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada’s top employers by Forbes Magazine. Also named as Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, Canada’s Greenest Employers and in 2021 Best Candidate Experience Award (CandE Award), ABB's culture and commitment are to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and support-ed. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. #LI-hybrid