• Fully responsible for the monitoring and leading the Content Management team, including steering, workload allocation, scheduling and review of performed work.• Global configuration, maintenance and testing for quarterly updates for SAP Ariba in the Software as a Service concept to enable the end-to-end source-to-pay process.• Independent coordination with procurement category teams (connection from "source to contract" with "purchase to pay") in order to discuss high-priority improvements and to support the implementation of these in a coordinative role.• Creates procedures for SAP contracts, catalogs and smart forms within the content management & support team processes.• Management and coordination of the global template adjustments. This includes coordination with the other regional hubs.• Function as a central point of contact (expert) for the identification, evaluation and development of potential for improvement within the PtP process. • Continuous maintenance and further development of complex procedural instructions for purchasing systems. • Coordinates the communication of content updates within Covestro worldwide.

• Responsible for all activities of the purchase order execution functions.• Set key performance indicators and departmental goals, monitor team performance. • Build effective relationships with all customers, internal and external. • Resolve discrepancies by evaluating and approving investigations and resolving special cases.• Build a community of highly motivated Procurement professionals with proper business understanding. • Support the project's integrated PRO IT solution, for better source-to-pay usability & efficiency. • Build and establish new POE organization withing the shared service center. Organize the internal structure of POE department, assign the tasks and define responsibilities within the respective roles. • Support to leverage the benefits of SAP Ariba as it is the key factor to simplify, automate and integrate Procurement processes.

Responsibilities:• Monitoring and leading of the assigned Accounts Payable/Travel Expense/Tax Operations CoE specialists including the steering, workload allocation, scheduling and review of performed work.• Enhance quality, efficiency and compliance of Service Center Operations and Service Delivery through tracking, reporting and analysis of qualitative and quantitative Key Performance Indicators as set by Global Process Governance.• Translating functional needs to Global Process Owner (GPO) and support in implementation of process changes.• Impact assessment of larger changes affecting the End-to-End process such as IT-projects, mergers and other organizational changes.• Leading operational excellence projects as well as supervision of external providers.• Responsible HR relevant topics within the team.• Sustainable development of the employee and the individual performance.• Time management and planning required to coordinate and prioritize multiple business unit needs and projects simultaneously while adapting to changes in business requirements in a fast-paced environment.• Collaborate with all parties involved in the respective processes on day-to-day and ad-hoc requests, especially with Service Delivery Manager and Service Center Team Leads.

Responsibilities:• Analysis of processes and identification of optimization opportunities.• Evaluation and realization of process improvements to ensure cost reduction and increase of efficiency and quality.• Roll-out of the financial accounting processes related to the One ERP project.• Support of roll-in projects to integrate further accounting functions into the SSC.• Execution of assessments and fit/gap process analysis.• Implementation and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPI).• Development of concepts as basis for the realization of IT improvements.• Development of training material and conduction of in-house trainings for the staff.• Status reporting of projects in front of the Board on a national and international basis.• Regular communication of project status with the heads of departments.

Responsibilities:• Responsible for all activities of the accounts payable and travel management functions.• Set key performance indicators and departmental goals, monitor team performance. • Build effective relationships with all customers, internal and external. • Resolve discrepancies by evaluating and approving investigations and resolving special cases.• Ensure proper execution of SOX and internal controls.Key achievements:• Improvement of paid on time performance by 20% within 12 months.• Elimination of an invoice backlog of ~5000 accumulated before joining the team, keeping the healthy structure of inbox during the last 18 months. • Response to over 7000 customer requests monthly and solution 98% of their concerns within agreed deadline 5 days.• Organization of regular customer calls including Sourcing & Logistics dpt. and business on bi-monthly basis which helped to improve the customer satisfaction significantly.• Employee engagement index improvement by 24% within 1 year.

Responsibilities:• Supervision and leadership of 3 different teams: Banking Services, General Ledger and Permanent Investment.• Set team goals, monitor performance in order to ensure effective operation.• Engage and motivate the team, identify key resources and develop core employees.• Ensure correct managing of fixed assets, accurate payment settlement and review balance sheet reconciliations.• Cooperation with external and internal audit.Key achievements:• Transfer of General Ledger activities related to countries of Western Europe from Bratislava to Shared Service Center in Spain, optimizing the execution of GL tasks.• Representation of Bratislava center in Audit Efficiency Project focused on creation of standard audit catalogue to define roles & responsibilities of 3 service centers vs local Controllership organization. It helped to standardize audit controls & documentation and improve the communication flow to avoid overlap and confusion in audit works.• Complete review of all electronic banking systems accesses in cooperation with Treasury department. Preparation of new mandate forms entitling respective users to execute payment transfers on behalf of EMEA entities and list of signatories update in 4 different banks.

Responsibilities:• Cash & Bank and Accounts Payable leadership.• Identification of key resources and promotion/further development of core employees.• Improve departmental KPIs, provide proper and transparent reports to top management.• Manage accurate and timely execution of payments.• Support treasury department, active cooperation with external banks.Key achievements:• Transition of payment activities from North American and South American Shared Service Centers related to 30 legal entities in order to create one global finance center in Bratislava.• Implementation of new universal banking system/platform in order to harmonize payment process for all regions and eliminate existing systems, specific per country.• Harmonization of payment activities related to acquisitions of Michel Thierry Group, Keiper & Recaro and C.R. Hammerstein.• Implementation of manual payment tool which helped to avoid extensive email communication and improve the transparency of manual payment process.• Implementation of supplier factoring (Prime Revenue) allowing the company to optimize its financial supply chain.