Head of Unit for Procure to Pay (P2P) IT (f/m/d)

Your area of work:

Corporate IT of Deutsche Börse Group is in charge of end user workplace experience, voice & communication, application development and operations for all group processes such as Financial Core, Customer Care and  Control & Corporate Processes. We also develop and operate our Enterprise Analytics and Digital Boardroom which are the core of sharing and measuring our group’s success.
 
Our mission is simple – Make IT Run!
 
We are passionate in running our existing IT landscape and exploring every day what makes DBG as a company, and thus all our colleagues, run better – simplify and automate processes, use modern technology and devices, and make collaboration fun. We are driven by user experience, performance, stable operations, and a high degree of Information Security and Compliance.
 
As Head of P2P IT, you will be responsible for leading Procure to Pay (P2P) IT unit which consists of passionate individuals with diverse and international background to achieve Digitize P2P goals. Digitize P2P is one of the key pillars of our Strategy with the goal to implement new technologies (with cloud and mobile emphasis) and automation to execute end to end Procure to Pay related processes in an optimized, focused way and bring the user experience to the next level. The introduction of harmonized Purchasing solutions and automated analytics will build the basis to support planning and change processes. 
 

• You are pursuing the proper mentality in order to 'Change things' and 'Change thinking'. 
• You are dedicated to your team and your team’s success, live our DBG Corporate and IT values, and strive to take ownership. 
• The perfect candidate for this role will have a “can do” positive attitude, model cultural transformation by embracing and encompassing diversity and inclusion. 
• Bring your curiosity and interest in life-long learning to all situations, mixed with a great sense of humor to diffuse challenging situations and an admiration for a challenging and fast paced environment.

 
Your responsibilities:

• You will be a role model as people leader – significant portion of your time will be to develop individuals within your organization, and build a high performing team
• You will be a role model for customer and user experience for everything we do, every day
• You will create a unique and mobile user experience for P2P processes
• You will build and manage teams establishing a service mentality and ownership as well as commit to continuous expansion of your teams' knowledge and skillset.
• Your goal is to stay on top of market trends in P2P technology, people/skills, data to continuously evolve your organization
• You will support strategic initiatives, as well as compliance initiatives (2nd line of defence) within Corporate IT
• You will Initiate and overview process creation and process improvement projects, implementing a KPI driven thinking

 
Your profile:

• Completed a university degree or similar with focus on Information Technologies, Computer Science, Engineering or comparable domains
• You are a seasoned leader with an experience in an international company
• You have extensive experience in understanding customer's journeys and creating/consulting for customer oriented processes for P2P areas
• You bring hands-on experience on solution design
• You are experienced in agile project methodology and development – both IT internal as well as ambassador on the client side 
• You have background / solid understanding in SAP/S4 and Non-SAP landscapes, Cloud solutions (Fieldglass, Ariba), engineering practices, and IT processes (change management, release management, incident management)
• You have strong presentation skills to internal and external stakeholders up to C-Level – simple, smart, convincing
• You have excellent written and spoken English skills (German knowledge will be considered as asset)