IT Business Process Arch.: Invoice-to-pay

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**SPECIFIC **

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**

As a value-driven member of our global Digital, Data & IT (DDIT) organization helping to enable the digital transformation of our company’s Enabling Functions, you will play a key role as **IT Business Process Architect (BPA) - Invoice to Pay (I2P) **, with a focus on our Life Sciences sector/business.

You will be accountable across different levels with I2P, for example: participating in the design, build, test, deployment and post go-live support for strategic (transformational) SAP ERP-related projects worldwide.

As a member of this business-facing global Technology team, you will help advise project managers and workstream leads, train key users, support stakeholders and keep governance on ERP and the associated IT landscape in different business sectors and regions. You will act as a trusted advisor in various projects, being the main counterpart for consultants and technical experts, and coordinating key user activities like requirements gathering, testing, training and master data preparation.

For already running (“live”) subsidiaries in both ERP and related Invoicing solutions (E.g. OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) and SAP-FI), you will manage process governance, evaluate new change requests (CRs), facilitate process owner decisions, as well as propose/advise on process improvement initiatives, including key user management.

**SCOPE OF PEOPLE RESPONSIBILITY**

This position doesn't have direct reports; you will act as an individual contributor

**COOPERATION**

**Internally**:

- INTERNAL [BUSINESS] STAKEHOLDERS: Key business stakeholders primarily exist in Germany (HQ) and Poland (Shared Service Centre). But also depending on the project or a system change request (CR), key stakeholders may vary on a global level and also for an interim period while a project is running. INTERNAL [IT] STAKEHOLDERS: Cooperation with cross-functional IT colleagues is very important. There is a key IT centre located in India where many internal developers work, and customer service colleagues (aka “AMS”) are based. As well, for this I2P BPA position, there are other colleagues located across: Poland and USA

**Externally**:
Working closely and being comfortable working with external consultants (E.g. Integrators, Software providers) is a key element to this role.

**CANDIDATE'S PROFILE**

**EDUCATION**

Minimum of a master’s degree or equivalent in: IT, Engineering or Business

**WORK EXPERIENCE**
- +5 years of experience working with SAP ERP and as well deep knowledge of (vendor) Invoicing and related processes (E.g. PO Invoice, Non-PO Invoice, Credit Memo, Down Payment, invoice reconciliation exceptions, payment proposals, etc.) Preferably working within the industries of either: Pharmaceutical, Chemical or Life Science

**JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES & SKILLS**
- Superior communication skills (written & verbal), where you can demonstrate comfort and experience interacting with people with different levels of seniority (IT and non-IT) and can talk about complex topics in clear and concise manner
- You have a successful track working in the capacity either as an SAP consultant, or an IT Business Architect who gained in-depth I2P knowledge through hands-on project deployments on a global level
- You possess comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of the SAP invoicing processes, as well as a broad understanding of applicable regulations (E.g. Sales/Use Tax, etc.)
- You have a deep understanding of the respective modules in SAP, particularly SAP-FI, and across several SAP versions (ideally incl. S4/HANA)
- You also (ideally) have experience working with complementary invoice automation solutions, such as: OpenText, Esker, Ariba Network, etc. (NOTE: global invoicing tool is OpenText VIM)
- You have a solid knowledge of master data management for invoicing and payment preperation (including the interrelation with SAP’s: MDG-s, MDG-f, etc.)
- Ideally you have (high-level) understanding of other SAP modules (e.g. FI and MM) and understand the dependency of these modules with the E2E invoicing process (receipt, recognition, processing, approval, payment proposal and payment execution)
- You demonstrate robust understanding of the integration between Finance and Purchasing processes in the overall process landscape, both from a technical point of view, as well as from a business perspective
- Ideally you have previous hands-on experience with different project