Global Process Owner - Finance

Global Process Owner - Finance

Location: US remote

Duration: 12 month contract

Role Overview

The Global Process Owner is responsible for leading the adoption of standardized finance processes and controls across the business to drive consistency, efficiency, and transparency. This role strengthens finance governance, compliance, and internal controls while continuously improving the quality, timeliness, and consistency of the month‑end close.

The Global Process Owner embeds standard costing practices to enhance cost control, variance analysis, and margin visibility, enabling better decision‑making across the organization. Acting as a key change leader, the role supports business transformation initiatives, including Highlander and the implementation and optimization of Microsoft Dynamics D365, ensuring finance processes are scalable, well‑governed, and aligned with global best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Own global finance process design, governance framework, and control standards across the organization.
• Drive consistent, high‑quality month‑end close routines, including journals, accruals, reconciliations, intercompany processes, and reporting.
• Strengthen finance governance, compliance, and internal controls through standardized ways of working.
• Define, embed, and govern standard costing processes, controls, and accountabilities to improve cost control, variance analysis, and margin visibility.
• Translate finance policies into practical execution within Microsoft Dynamics D365, covering master data, inputs, approvals, and routine updates.
• Monitor process adoption and data quality, identify gaps, and drive corrective actions.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives and promote finance best practices globally.
• Partner with senior leaders and key stakeholders to align process changes with business priorities.
• Lead change management activities related to finance process transformation and ERP improvements (Highlander / D365).
• Develop and deliver training, communications, and engagement plans to build capability, ownership, and accountability across finance and key stakeholders.
• Engage with and coach the Key User and SME community to ensure strong process understanding and adoption.
• Work in line with the agreed Global Process Taxonomy.
• Create and maintain end‑to‑end process flows for assigned finance process areas.
• Define and maintain test scenarios to ensure effective testing and acceptance of end‑to‑end processes.
• Create and maintain SOPs using agreed templates, supported by Click Learn documentation.
• Identify critical gaps in the Highlander solution; support requirement definition, business justification, and resolution with solution leads.
• Represent and report gap status and resolutions to leadership forums.
• Effectively use Highlander project tools (e.g., Azure DevOps) for managing tasks, user stories, testing, and project activities.
• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, Key Users, and SMEs; coach and support the finance community.
• Provide functional support to implementation partners and consultants.
• Support data migration activities, including validation of configuration, master data, and transactional data during roll‑outs.
• Keep domain stakeholders informed of project progress, decisions, and risks.
• Participate in deployment and roll‑out phases, including workshops, end‑to‑end testing, UAT, and onsite support as required.
• Contribute to breakthrough events, continuous improvement initiatives, and change management to ensure strong adoption of global processes and the Highlander platform.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in end‑to‑end finance processes and controls (Record to Report), including month‑end close, reconciliations, intercompany accounting, and financial reporting.
• Proven senior‑level experience in finance process ownership, governance models, and internal control frameworks within a complex, global environment.
• Strong change leadership capability, with experience embedding new ways of working, control discipline, and standardized close routines.
• Solid ERP experience, ideally Microsoft Dynamics D365 (JD Edwards experience a strong advantage), including data validation, approvals, chart of accounts, and cost center alignment.
• Strong understanding of standard costing concepts, cost control, variance analysis, and profitability drivers.
• Ability to translate complex finance topics (costs, variances, margins, profitability) into clear, actionable insights for non‑finance stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational levels and build trusted partnerships with global and local teams.
• Excellent facilitation, training, and communication skills, with experience driving adoption and capability building.
• High level of adaptability and resilience, comfortable working across multiple teams, sites, and project phases.
• Continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to lead teams from current‑state processes to well‑defined future‑state (“to‑be”) processes.

Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V Employer Ind-1

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

We help our customers push the limits of their processes and products to meet the demanding requirements they face, from higher process temperatures to higher product performance to increasing miniaturisation.

Key Figures: Revenue £1,100.7m (2024), ~8,000 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK.  Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.