Role summary:

The KL GFS Billing Manager position offers considerable exposure to the business, finance leaders, and the wider shared services teams. You will broaden & strengthen knowledge through leading & integrating varied Billing service challenges globally.  These include Billing operations support across markets such as APAC and UKI and the global task of loading Experian invoices onto customer portals across APAC, EMEA, UKI and NA regions.

What You'll Do:

• Help make decisions about the best way to implement the requirements to allow efficient billing processes for the markets we support
• Propose and implement process and commercial standardization that enables simpler automated solutions and processes including deploying major complex global Billing applications such as ARIA.
• Identify best practices and ongoing support to the business on billing process and functionality while ensuring it is in compliance with relevant policies / legislation
• Lead the integration of new acquisition billing processes into Experian which includes partnering with market FD and the business in deciding and thereafter implementing the best billing process and system solution to provide seamless support without any service disruption to the business
• Lead the Billing teams and monitor/manage operations delivery, project or development milestones, prioritization, and progress to ensure monthly operations support and project delivery.
• Provide regular updates to management and important partners, escalating issues ensure prompt resolution to maintain / achieve operational or project timelines
• Recommend process improvements opportunities, initiating actions or projects for continuous improvement
• Manage the daily billing operations across both Kuala Lumpur and India locations, to ensure smooth execution, target and timelines are met
• Lead as a role model, you will instill a culture of knowledge sharing and working together and implementing clear metrics to measure the success of the team.
• Review and respond to any billing and payment queries received from the clients
• Review the completeness of Billing-Interface reconciliation and month end AR to GL
• Point of escalation for all Billing process and systems matters, promoting UAT and Go live of system changes and procedures when needed
• Ensure billing process and controls are enforced and measured through Indicators Audit Control and Compliance
• Regular calls with defined partner to resolve outstanding actions, go to person of Regional CFO and Head of Finance for any Billing support requirements
• Set a culture of Cross training and support across the other country reports/dashboard and align processes
• To change and pushes themselves beyond what's expected and able to re-evaluates and adjust thinking when things change
• Seek feedback and is open to questioning their assumptions and can demonstrate confidence in handling challenges.

Experian is a global data and technology company. We are looking for enthusiastic graduates to join our Global Finance Department. You will have a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in several finance and accounting responsibilities including the Record to Report, Account Payables, Account Receivables, Revenue, Cost, Finance & Planning or Controllership departments.

Our graduates are empowered to find opportunities to improve the way we do things to help our business, and our clients grow. We offer comprehensive exposure to several aspects of accounting within a dynamic and global finance environment.

You will learn about Experian's mission, values, and the exciting projects you could be part of. During the day, you will experience our culture first-hand, get engaged with our leadership team and gain insights into the industry and our strategic vision and participate in our interactive sessions.

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION - Operations Shift Manager As an Operations Shift Manager, you will play pivotal role in our Global Operations Center, ensuring the continuous functioning of our business-critical systems. What you’ll need to bring to the team - Team Leadership: Lead a team of Operations Analysts and Incident Managers overseeing shift operational activities. - Workload Coordination: Coordinate shift workloads to ensure full coverage and optimal resource utilization. - Escalation management: Serve as the escalation point for Major Incidents impacting internal and external services. - Communication Management: Provide timely and accurate updates on major business events to senior and executive leadership during shifts. - Post-incident review and analysis: Collaborate with Problem Management practice in post-incident reviews to analyze the causes and contributing factors of incidents, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence. - Stakeholder management and communication: Maintain effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders, including IT teams, business units, and senior management, to ensure alignment of incident & event management activities with organizational objectives. - Performance monitoring and reporting: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of the team, providing regular reports and insights for management review. - Continuous improvement initiatives: Champion a culture of continuous improvement within the function, identifying opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and capabilities. Influence enhanced service stability and availability. - Knowledge management and documentation: Promote knowledge sharing and documentation of incident resolution procedures & event control procedures contributing to the development of a comprehensive knowledge base for future reference. - Team Collaboration: Foster collaborative environment amongst the peer group of Shift Managers, promoting knowledge sharing, cross-training and collective problem-solving. - Must be available via cell phone for necessary coverage off-hours incidents as part of rotation schedule.   Required Experience - 8+ years in IT Operations or Service Management environment, with at 3 years managing operational teams. - Proven experience in leading or managing incident management teams. - Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex issues and drive effective solutions. - Strong customer, communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical customers. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to achieve common goals and objectives. - Strong Skills in managing stakeholders at various levels, with ability to build and maintain positive relationships. - Ability to apply technical analysis of application issues to solve customer reported problems. - Ability to work well within a team to learn and share knowledge. Qualification - Must Possess at least Bachelor’s Degree, Post Graduate Diploma/ Computer Science and Technology or equivalent. - ITIL v4 Specialist: Monitor, Support & Fulfill or ITIL v3 Intermediate: Service Operations is required. - COBIT / ISO 20000 is a plus. - Lean Six Sigma knowledge is a plus. - Experienced in project related to continuous improvement and process management. - Strong communication skills (verbal and written) - Driven and passionate of IT service Delivery

Job description

• Responsible to verify reconciliation for the payroll team, ensuring efficient payroll operations and provide exceptional service delivery to all stakeholders • Agile, CI mindset, initiator, lead and emphasize on streamline processes, leveraging technology and best practices to enhance accuracy, efficiency and quality of works. • Lead and coordinate CI or improvement projects within payroll in APAC as well as contribute to cross team CI initiatives. • Ensure payroll processes, reports and delivery are compliance with local tax and labor law, internal and external audit and security requirements, ICFR, and BCP ready. • Manage relationship with all stakeholders and third party vendor, ensuring they meet performance standards and compliance requirements and able to provide recommendation for improvement. • Strategically motivate, encourage, engage with and support team member whenever necessary. • Expert in multiple payroll countries & payroll system and able to handle high complexity payroll and backup the team member during emergency. • Lead Business Partner meeting or review, presentation of ideas independently with constructive action plan. • Act as the first level of point of contact for any escalated payroll issue in the team, Managing escalation independently and swiftly • Role model, self-driven to success, instils a robust culture of knowledge sharing, engaging with the team and stakeholders, good time management skills • Supervise the team's daily operations and administrations (SLA, queries, reporting, deadlines) with proper ownership • Provide indirect coaching to the team on daily operations matters within APAC with proper ownership • Proactive promote collaboration, alignments and improvements across stakeholders and across functions or regions. • Accountable for payroll, tax and any internal or external statutory audits. • Responsible for ensuring the BCP around the payroll process is constantly reviewed, updated and tested to ensure BCP readiness • Governe and responsible for managing third party payroll vendor for respective countries ensuring meeting SLA • Provides first level decision for any issues raised by the team and ensure processes are embedded and adhered to consistently throughout the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluates QA requirements for complex and multiple projects, directing workstream QA leads and architects to define the test strategy for each.
• Manages multiple workstreams or projects of QA work, ensuring that QA leads observe standard process, planning, dependency management and communication to the business.
• Manages the implementation and use of various types of testing cycle:

• Functional testing
• Integration testing
• Non-functional testing
• Performance testing
• Systems testing etc

• Develops master test / implementation plans across workstreams / projects and provides coordination across teams and sites where applicable.
• Manages the creation, deployment, and strategic use of department test environments. 
• Supports QA management on special projects and proposals.
• Provides line management where necessary for team of QA assigned to project, including objective setting, development and appraisal of those people.
• Assists in recruitment of high calibre team members.
• Owns own development to maintain technology expertise, keeping current with evolving quality testing techniques.

To lead and coach Agile teams and enable them to be effective. They manage up and across the enterprise, eliminating impediments and work to improve operations and flow. They build and develop teams, define the mission and vision of the team(s) and help them to achieve their highest potential as a team and as individuals through 1-1 coaching. Managers play a significant role in leading and implementing change.

This role is well suited to a leader who is motivated by having a positive influence on other people and the organisation. They should enjoy making decisions, driving change, continuous improvement and leading team members to enable the efficient build of the software.

Core Responsibilities:

Team contribution:

• Responsible for planning team work to execute and deliver quality software products
• Resource allocation to ensure development work are optimally assigned based on software engineers’ skills and expertise
• Ensuring that appropriate processes and procedures are in place to make sure both development & testing are completed to agreed standard, methods and procedures, supporting through code review processes and testing strategies as a whole-team approach
• Accountable for the quality of the team output

Recruiting and retaining talent, and fostering high-performing teams:

• Responsible for building a strong team culture and developing the capabilities of the teams (and the function more broadly) by attracting, developing, engaging, deploying and retaining key talents
• Works with HR and Finance to manage recruitment, compensation and promotions
• Responsible for setting goals and evaluating performance against them providing input, guidance, and corrective actions - constant monitoring and guidance.
• Proactive around training and mentoring
• Eliminates impediments and evolving systems and practices to support Agile development - works on clearing the way/removing blockers/setting ways of working strategy that is bigger than the team
• Supports the self-organization that leads to team formation; addressing issues that teams cannot unblock; making personnel changes where necessary
• Serving as an Agile coach and advisor to Agile Teams. Remaining close enough to the team to add value and to be a competent manager, while staying far enough away to let them problem-solve on their own. Encourage team independence and self-organization.

Program Execution:

• Help build Agile Milestones and Roadmaps, as well as the plans that enable them
• Help develop, implement, and communicate the economic framework i.e., align everyone to the financial objectives of an engineering initiative and be economical in decision-making processes (consider cost to produce, time to produce, labor and resourcing, cost to run etc.)
• Participate in Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshops; support teams by helping them remove systemic impediments and implementing continuous improvement backlog items
• Protect teams from distractions and unrelated or unnecessary work
• Assist the Release Train and Solution Train Engineers with PI Planning readiness and Pre- and Post-PI Planning activities
• Participate in PI planning, System Demo, and Solution Demo
• Leverage a Customer-centric mindset and Design Thinking practices to establish the right relationships with customers create solutions that meet their needs
• Provide other resources as necessary for teams and Agile Release Trains to successfully execute their Vision and Roadmap

Continuously assist in aligning teams to the system mission and vision:

• Build partnerships with Suppliers, consultants, partners, and internal and external stakeholders, work with these stakeholders to help ensure alignment and execution of Strategic Themes
• Collaborate across different functions including Product Management, Delivery, Support and Practice Groups
• Work with the System Architect/Engineering, Product Managers, and Product Owners to establish explicit content authority

Transparency:

• Provide freedom and safety so that individuals and teams are free to innovate, experiment, and fail on occasion
• Keep Work in Process (WIP) backlogs and information fully visible to all
• Value productivity, quality, transparency, and openness over internal politics

Responsibilities for Built-in Quality:

• Support infrastructure, culture, organization, and strategy for implementing DevOps and Release on Demand
• Understand, teach, or sponsor the software and hardware engineering skills needed to support the development of high-quality code, components, systems, and solutions