Product Change Leader
Ericsson
Total years of experience :4 years, 7 Months
• Manage quality of change implementation plans while optimizing implementation cost and planning.
• Manage quality of impact analysis of changes, to minimize processing time and reliable planning.
• Organize and chair cross sector project change control board for impact analysis, planning and disposition of changes.
• Recognize and advise on scope of change requests (scope control, new or update change).
• Coordinate and coach cross-sector project team on the product change process.
• Monitor and control the implementation of approved changes.
• Monitor and give feedback on changes being processed according to agreed configuration management at Ericsson policy.
• Be involved in embedding improvements delivered from configuration management at Ericsson roadmap on operational level.
• Contribute to development of configuration management at Ericsson.
• Responsible for the entire O2C process (order to Cash).
• Responsible for all financial issues on the project after the tender phase (from contract award date to project close-out/ Final Acceptance Certificate).
• Control on all financial movements with regards to income statement elements such as. Orders booked, Net Sales, COS, UM, Unbilled sales.
• Review & challenge quality of Balance Sheet positions (WIP/ RUC/ DR/ UB) and take action.
• Secure proof of delivery and transaction price allocation regarding IFRS 15 instructions.
• Secure compliance with internal policies and procedures, SOX controls, and Audit.
• Complete closure phase after securing all documents and transactions on the system.
• Act according to IFRS 15 starting from step 4 to manage Incentives such as rebate agreements and direct discounts & TPA’s (IFRS15 Step 4) and step 5 such as recognizing NS and COS and invoicing of HW and SW to update these P&L, and balance sheet items.
• Update as well-planned cost vs actual cost based on the reports generated from the system.
• Perform SOX Key controls commenting as per required such as Check if Order Booked are recognized according to customer’s Contract, check if Net Sales are recognized according to AD09 (Customer Deliverables) Prior to NS recognition.
• Confirm the availability of the suitable Proof of Delivery (POD) and transfer of control docs.
• Secure that Credit Notes within Order to Invoice (O2I) process, are reviewed and approved prior to issuing, as per Ericsson’s Accounting Directives and SOX controls.
• Give explanations where the WIP, RUC, or DR come from and when it will be updated.
• Engage with Execution Accountable to align requirements for compliant project accounting.
• Process invoices including FI and PO invoices (Average 1500 invoices per Month).
• Post business transactions after getting approvals from business units.
• Verify financial data for use in maintaining accounts payable records.
• Doing corrections for wrong postings related to any wrong discrepancies such as wrong GL accounts, wrong tax code, or wrong reference number.
• Cooperate with master data team and send to them all the info regarding the new vendors for new creation
• Respond to customer inquiries on Stargate system and follow up SLAs.
• Responsible for closing activities such as preparing accruals files and GR/IR clearing.
• Provide consistent high-quality service, complying with Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), escalating to Director as appropriate