Senior Manager - Procurement and Accounting Projects

Job Description

Senior Manager, Procurement and Accounting Projects at a glance….

The Senior Manager, Procurement and Accounting Projects plays a senior finance leadership role across procurement controlling and accounting activities, ensuring strong financial governance, high-quality decision support, and clear alignment across Procurement, Operations, FP&A, Accounting, and GBS. The role owns the more complex and judgment-based topics, drives cross-functional coordination, and leads process improvements across the Procurement space to strengthen financial visibility, control, and ways of working. This role is expected to translate complex financial matters into clear actions and decisions, influence senior stakeholders, and proactively identify opportunities for simplification, control improvement, and value creation. In addition to procurement-related leadership, the role also contributes to and leads special projects that may extend more broadly across finance, process, systems, governance, or business change priorities.

What’s on the menu?

• Lead finance coordination across procurement controlling and accounting topics, ensuring strong governance, clear ownership, and effective alignment across Procurement, Operations, FP&A, Accounting, and GBS.
• Own and coordinate the more complex, judgment-based, and higher-risk financial topics related to Procurement, ensuring issues are assessed, resolved, and escalated appropriately.
• Act as a senior business partner to cross-functional stakeholders, translating complex financial matters into clear recommendations and practical actions.
• Act as the key finance business partner to Procurement in the review of more complex, higher-value, or judgment-based contracts, ensuring financial implications, risks, and governance requirements are properly assessed.
• Provide direction and challenge on contract structuring, escalation points, and decision-making for procurement-related agreements.
• Lead the identification and implementation of technological advances and process improvements in the contract review process to improve efficiency, control, transparency, and consistency.
• Drive process improvements across the Procurement space to strengthen financial transparency, control, efficiency, and quality of execution.
• Identify opportunities to simplify ways of working and improve end-to-end processes across Procurement, Finance, and GBS interfaces.
• Oversee procurement-related month-end, balance sheet, and forecast coordination at a higher level, ensuring risks, variances, and open issues are understood and addressed by the right teams.
• Review and challenge accounting treatments, assumptions, and financial inputs for more complex topics, providing direction and guidance where needed.
• Lead cross-functional governance and decision-making support for procurement-related financial matters, including alignment on priorities, risks, and required actions.
• Own or contribute to special projects that may extend beyond Procurement, including finance transformation, systems enhancement, governance improvements, process redesign, and broader business change initiatives.
• Support audit and control topics relevant to the area, ensuring issues are followed through to resolution and that control standards are maintained.
• Provide guidance, structure, and clarity to the GCC-based roles, acting as the key escalation point for complex issues and cross-functional decision-making.

Recipe for Success – apply now if this sounds like you!

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• Professional qualification preferred (ACCA, CIMA, CPA, ACA or equivalent)
• At least 5 years of experience in Procurement Accounting, Controlling, or finance business partnering within a complex international environment
• Strong understanding of financial controlling, month-end close, balance sheet management, and procurement-related finance processes
• Ability to manage ambiguity, lead cross-functional topics, and influence stakeholders across different functions and levels
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to connect detail to broader business impact
• Experience in SAP; experience with finance systems, reporting tools, process improvement initiatives, or systems implementation is a plus
• Fluent in English

We hope to find you a seat at our table!

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Location(s)

Amsterdam, London - The Shard

 

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.