Accounting / Finance / Controlling - IT Consultant

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.

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.