Accounting / Finance / Controlling - IT Consultant (m/f/d)

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1. Project name:
Harmonization & consolidation financial processes

2. Project description:
Project description: The objective of Contract and IT Sourcing Management is to source all relevant IT-Services that are to be provided from Uniper IT's Strategic ensuring budget adherence and fulfilment of supplier's obligations. In this context the Financial Management Team is acting as a bridging function ensuring transparent and aligned cost management for IT infrastructure run as well as license costs. Due to the respective harmonization initiative aims for a consolidated cost management to ensure e2e process excellence as well as an efficient daily business continuity.

The services mentioned in the task description will be provided within the framework of an agile development method.
Planned project duration for the entire project (start/end): 01. April - 31. Dec. 2024.

3. Background to the assignment:
The external colleague needs to be able to evaluate overarching process dependencies by monitoring the daily business, to capture process gaps and advise the Financial Management Team on process optimization & automation and Uniper does not have that kind of resource internally. Therefore, the external consultant has a unique position compared to the client's internal project staff and provides significantly different services than the internal staff.

4. Detailed description of the agile method/services:
The services shall be provided within the framework of an agile development method. The concrete activities required in each case to implement the services commissioned shall be agreed iteratively between the parties within the framework of sprint meetings and implemented by the consultant within the respective sprints following the sprint meetings. Prior to each sprint meeting, the consultant shall independently check on the basis of its professional expertise, which individual services are reasonable and feasible within the scope of the assignment in the respective sprint. The sprints each have a duration of 7 days, so that the sprint meetings take place weekly. Within the individual sprints, the contracting parties shall coordinate the respective technical requirements for the services to be provided in weekly meetings in order to achieve the compatibility of the individual components of the of the own established and personalized FM product. The technical requirements for the services to be provided are assessed by the consultant on the basis of its own technical assessment. After completion of a Sprint, the Parties shall conduct a ?Sprint Review'' in which the consultant reports on the feasibility and status of the services performed by it in the previous Sprint and makes a recommendation on how to proceed with regard to the services that proved to be unfeasible in the respective Sprint. All of the meetings and exchanges described above shall take place exclusively in the presence of a central contact person named by Uniper, who shall coordinate the project on our internal side. The organisation and scheduling of the meetings described above in which the consultant is involved shall be organised and carried out by the consultant and coordinated with Uniper.


5. Task description - The scope of services includes the following tasks, which are performed independently:

- Process improvements in consumption and cost planning. This includes the below subtasks:
* Based on own expertise, identification of process improvements for drawing together information coming from the respective service owners and stakeholders, with the aim of defining expected consumption values and the resulting cost. Subsequent implementation of these improvements. Getting approval from Uniper FM Team before implementation.
* Continuous update with actual consumption data of teams internal Data base as a common and centrally governed financial management tool with daily rolling forecasting.
* Advise on identified gaps in the planning, definition of counter measures on how to close existing gaps and how to structurally avoid them for the future.
* Analyze the ongoing process optimization in terms of hardware planning and derive commercials related synchronizations. Based on findings, advise on how these processes can be further standardized and stabilized. Getting approval from Uniper FM Team before implementation.
* Optimize and standardize the invoice planning overview and aligned processes by maintaining a transparent purchase order overview, a tracking file for the status of invoices.

- Analysis for potential further optimization and standardization with regards on existing automated & robotics solutions. This includes the below subtasks:
* Define measures on how to further standardize and stabilize existing automated process runs with regards to financial planning and aligned invoicing processes, based on own expertise. Present results to Uniper FM Team.
* Verify volume and cost related planning activities (esp. forecasting- and mid-term planning) on how these processes can be further standardized and stabilized.
* Consult the FM team on maintaining robotics solutions in handling automated purchase ordering.
* Analyze and advise on further synchronization initiatives, especially with regards to different corporate toolsets, like SAP, MS and further applications with the goal to achieve data consistency and consolidated data base.

Uniper provides all necessary information, access to the systems and requirements in advance.