Procurement Analyst (Accounts Payable)

About the role:

The ideal candidate will support the Source-to-Pay (S2P) activities, ensuring creation and management of Purchase Requisitions (PR) & Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), goods receipts (GR), and vendor on-boarding & follow ups with the internal & external partners.

The role acts as a key interface between internal stakeholders, vendors, Accounts Payable (AP), and other teams, with a solid focus on SAP, Ariba, Fiori, Aravo, SRM, and related systems.

The role will work closely with FBT (Finance Business Technology) to ensure PO's are created and invoices paid timely.

This role also provides subject matter expertise (SME) support, helps solve issues, and plays a key role in improvement and transformation initiatives.

Key Accountabilities:

• The ideal candidate will support the Source-to-Pay (S2P) activities, such as:
• PR Execution: Manage end-to-end PR processes, ensure timely GR creation, track workflows, and coordinate approvals for high-value and recurring purchases
• Vendor & Ariba Support: Act as the primary contact for vendor queries, support Ariba on-boarding and issues, and manage vendor-related problem resolution.
• Stakeholder Support & Advisory: Provide guidance to requestors on vendor selection and documentation, serve as SME, and support stakeholders and new joiners.
• Invoice & Workflow Management: Handle invoice workflows, coordinate approvals, validate and process GRs, and support AP with queries and issue resolution.Ensure that approvers have the required DOFA (Delegation of Authority) to approve.
• Ensure that POs are created (by FBT), where PO is required, so only pre-approved non-PO invoices will come without PO.
• Process Monitoring & Issue Resolution: Monitor Shopping Carts (SC)/PO lifecycle, resolve system/workflow errors, raise IT tickets, and perform root cause analysis for recurring or severe issues.
• Vendor & Master Data Management: Maintain vendor master data, ensure compliance with onboarding standards, and resolve setup-related issues.
• Transformation & Change Management: you will play a key role in improvement and transformation initiatives, including KPI reporting and monitoring to ensure improvements are made.

Education: Business, Finance, Commerce degree or equivalent experience. CIPS (Member of Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) / ISM (Institute of Supply Management) qualification, or at stage of pre-qualification, is desirable.

Experience and Job Requirements:

• 4- 8 years working experience covering Procurement & Supply chain.
• SAP knowledge is highly desirable, in particular SAP Ariba & SRM.
• Excellent knowledge in PR creation, PO, GRN and overall understanding of S2P process.
• Ability to effectively communicate and work with a globally dispersed team of stakeholders
• Knowledge of various office tools and techniques like Excel, Outlook etc.
• Must have knowledge on Vendor on-boarding, New Vendor setup, CDD process etc
• Must have knowledge in invoice processing & payments to resolve related queries.
• Ability to manage high volume operations & Priorities
• High level of attent