Expert Team Member I2p

**Date**:Mar 5, 2025

**Location**: Pune, IN

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

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**Job Purpose**:
Responsible for executing a specific area of expertise in the I2P process ensuring that that specific area is delivering the maximum contribution to the overall I2P departmental targets which is delivering high performance in On time payment, efficient process execution, smoothing operations.

Key objectives of the job are:

- Member of the I2P team with focus on offering a stable performance with the less effort
- Support the initiatives that will deliver higher performance and less effort in the process
- Achieve specific targets and goals based on the I2P Vision and Strategy
- Closely monitor process performance related KPIs and metrics to identify potential opportunities for improvements
- Take ownership on opportunities identified from the KPIs and metrics to deliver the improvement (eg. Take actions to increase PO compliance, on time payment etc)
- Link with internal and external stakeholders to realize the opportunities identified
- Operationally perform specific purchase to pay activities (eg. Review of payment proposals)
- Provide guidance to the transactional team for complicated cases
- Closely monitor the systems used in the process to maintain appropriate governance
- Support the transactional team in escalations
- Have high understanding of the End to End process of I2P in order to be offer expertise to any stakeholder

**Key Activities**:
**Monitor and improve process performance**
- Monitor the process performance & take appropriate initiatives in line with the vision and strategy of P2P for improving the process performance
- Communicate to internal/external stakeholders about change in the area of P2P & focus on increasing the efficiency of the process

**Operational P2P process**
- Provide General Ledger Account Coding when necessary.
- Review all vendor payments in accordance with AkzoNobel payment policies. Initiate requests for manual or urgent payments in accordance with company policy.
- Monitor continuously and update the systems used (SAP VIM, SAP IHB, etc) in relation to approval matrixes etc (in accordance to functions impacted and BAP)
- Confirm master data details (e.g. Approve financial data of suppliers)
- Support transactional team & RTR/OTC in executing specific processes where collaboration is required (e.g. Activities of MEC)

**Escalation management**
- Manage internal/external stakeholders in any escalations due to poor quality or performance of the transactional team (eg. Errors in postings, escalations from suppliers)
- Build an open relationship with the transactional team in order to manage effectively any issues

**Continuous improvement**:

- Drive continuous improvement projects from initiation to realization
- Perform root cause analysis for repeated errors to deliver a structural improvement

**Collaboration**
- Cross-BU alignment with P2P stakeholders in Finance and business/functions

**Experience**:

- Procure to Pay (E2E) experience with more than 4-5 years
- Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business or equivalent
- Financial and business analytical skills with the ability to analyze data for business decisions in timely manner
- Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with internal/external stakeholders
- Ability to work in a remote environment from a global level whilst continuously retaining ‘an eye’ for the details
- Target oriented
- Experience with Lean (six sigma) in a non-manufacturing environments is highly preferred
- Knowledge of SAP, with preference to SAP Vendor Invoice Management and SAP Finance
- Knowledge of e-procurement suites (SAP SRM, SAP Ariba) will be a plus
- Good communication in English (verbal and written)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel)

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of