Process Expert- Ap

**Company Description**
H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H&M here.

As a Process Expert-AP you will closely collaborate with Global Process Owner, Team Lead and Process Lead to evaluate the efficiency of the process, identify inconsistencies and revise processing techniques as needed to improve and maximize productivity. You will be responsible for the daily operation for designated processes. Providing direction, instructions, and guidance to the associates. You will guide and lead the team according to H&M values and guidelines.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Be a role model according to our values in action
- Ensure staff assessment and actively promote a positive feedback culture
- Optimizing processes and set ways of working within your area of responsibility
- Work closely with your manager to ensure alignment of goals and priorities
- Develop and implement operational and new initiatives
- Responsible for planning and distribution of team workload and tasks in their daily operations
- Motivate, delegate and inspire the team members in their daily work
- Work closely with your manager to ensure alignment of goals and priorities and collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders
- Share your learnings and knowledge to develop and improve the way-of-working in the accounts payable process
- Work closely with the Process Lead and other functions to ensure alignment of goals and priorities.
- Planning ahead on how to deploy new initiatives in terms of developing the accounts payable process according to the functions vision
- Ensure quality within your area through guidance of other accounting department and functions.
- Ensure that necessary information is received and shared with your team members.
- Take responsibility for your own increased understanding and knowledge about the processes and routines within H&M
- Responsible to communicate guidelines and educate stakeholders both internally and externally to ensure compliance
- Ability to maintain a good network with other functions
- Provide training material/e-learning for accounts payable systems and processes
- Be a global super user for accounts payable. Be able to answer how-to-questions from internal and external stakeholders. Build and maintain a super user network.

**Qualifications**
- Accounting skills with 5-8 years of experience within a similar role, good knowledge of the legal local requirements
- Process competence (incl. technical skills, system integrations, being able to handle machine learning and automation)
- An understanding and a good knowledge of our agreements (purchasing agreements, supplier agreements, bank agreements) and how they affect our processes.
- Communication skills -training others and giving both internal and external support in all communication channels and forums.
- Planning and optimizing
- Responsible for our global guidelines and policies
- Both written and oral English skills are mandatory

**Additional Information**
This is a **full-time position based in Bangalore**.

**Benefits**
We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program - HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.
- In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries._

**Inclusion & Diversity**:

- H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process._