Company Overview: If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone! **Role Summary** We are seeking a proactive AP Subject Matter Expert to drive process standardization, automation, and operational excellence within our Finance department. In this role, you will act as a key bridge between operations, IT, and global stakeholders to optimize end-to-end workflows and support our transitions. **Responsibilities:** + Map the current process landscape under own functional responsibility and identify process improvements and automation ideas. + Work together with operational manager, Global Process Owner, and other stakeholders on automation and standardization initiatives. + Have an understanding of partner functions’ processes and support own operation team in case of process clarification, identifying interconnections and improvement opportunities + Manage process documentation, stakeholder mapping, and required change management with those impacted by any changes. + Work together on Continuous Improvement Projects/Processes (CIP) initiatives and map impact on own processes. Channel impacts to partner functions. + Continuous process improvement activity should focus mostly on the main ERP systems. + Working with BSC trainer, contribute to and actively support the development of training plans for employees within responsible departments + Support the team with process explanation/training where needed. + Knowledge management, updating knowledge base for own function + Support the leader to build a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement + Have an end to end understanding on the applicable finance processes within the various ERP landscape. + Support all department employees with complicated requests as they work cross-functionally with legacy ERPs of partner functions to assure effective end-to-end processes. + Have an understanding on the current landscape from Finance process perspective as well as on the high-level IT landscape design in the background. + Understand transition roadmap, the own team’s transitions, and support the transition. + Meet agreed upon timelines to transition sites into the BSC as well as SAP S/4 Hana implementation schedule as published by the FLS IT team.  + Perform other ad-hoc tasks defined by the direct operational leader and Global Process Owner + Understand and provide guidance on all issues that arise as a result of daily system or process problems; communicate and escalate as necessary to assure issue resolution and in effort to engage management in knowledge of significant issues impacting processes. + Plan and manage own workload to meet all deadlines. + Participate and lead projects as required. + Handle and escalate process performance issues and errors occurred. + Ensure compliance with FLS policies, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local statutory laws and regulations and that business is conducted within FLS ethical code of business conduct. + Ensure compliance with FLS policies, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as defined by FLS, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local site financial statutory laws and regulations + Business processes developed and used in own function shall be in line with FLS ethical code of business conduct  + Provide advice to Supervisor(s) as needed and ensure governance and internal control standards are embedded in the end to end processes and operations. + Demonstrate thorough understanding of financial controls for local and SOX requirements. + Implement, and maintain effective internal controls for own area + Develop standard reports for own area that best represent own team’s performance + Coordinate reporting activities with other partner functions + Work together with the multiple Project team internal and external to represent the team’s interest and direction.  + Be own team’s representative related to any Project which effects on the departmental operation (IT, SC, Global finance, etc.) + Maintain a functional and healthy relationship with site stakeholders impacting own team’s processes and finance. + Maintain functional and healthy relationship with FLS transformation and transition teams as site processes are transitioned to the BSC. + Maintain functional and healthy relationship with the IT technical teams supporting the implementation of SAP S/4 Hana.  + Work in collaboration with the Supervisor(s) and other stakeholders on CIP projects **Requirements:** + 5-7 years of relevant experience in imrpovement for Accounts Payable processes + Bachelor's Degree in accounting (important for GL SME roles) or economic/business/IT studies (for all Finance SME roles) + Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Spanish and English + Confident user of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) + Solid knowledge and e xperienc e using ERP systems: Oracle or SAP required, other ERP system is an advantage + Establish and maintain effective work relationships with stakeholders + Proactively recognize and resolve issues + Ability to cope with and drive process changes + Support the team with professional training if needed + Continuous improvement mindset (LEAN Six Sigma is an advantage) + Share professional expertise in prioritization to team members  + Problem solving + System thinking + Able to represent own team’s interest in global projects **Preferred:** + Master's Degree + CIP experience and understanding Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve. **Req ID** : R-17997 **Job Family Group** : Finance & Accounting **Job Family** : FA Accounting EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. 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