SAP Spend Leakage Architect (P2P/S4HANA)

Neev; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Neev is seeking an experienced SAP HANA Solution Architect to support a strategic spend control initiative in the UK. The role focuses on identifying spend leakage across procurement and invoicing, including unapplied credits, rebates, and penalties.

You will build and maintain a leakage register and work with SAP, Ariba, Sirion CLM and analytics teams to implement effective controls, from requirements through to testing and deployment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on SAP P2P (Procure-to-Pay) experience.
• Expertise in SAP S/4HANA or ECC MM/FI.
• Strong knowledge of PO release strategies and GR/SES.
• 3-way and 4-way invoice matching.
• Invoice blocking and tolerance configuration.
• Invoice validation and exception handling.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Ariba and/or VIM invoice-validation configuration.
• Ability to write detailed functional specifications.
• Experience taking requirements through design, configuration, testing and implementation.
• Strong understanding of contract compliance and recovery audit processes.
• Experience with rate cards, T&M returns, SOWs, credits, rebates and invoice reconciliation.
• Strong Business Analysis and requirements elicitation skills.
• Demonstrable experience delivering process and system changes through to completion.

Responsibilities

• Identify, analyse and prioritise third-party spend leakage opportunities based on financial exposure.
• Build and maintain a leakage/control register covering credits, rebates, rate-card compliance, PO compliance and invoice discrepancies.
• Define functional and system requirements for procurement and invoice controls.
• Design controls across SAP, Ariba, Sirion CLM and/or detection analytics.
• Produce detailed functional specifications for SAP configuration and development teams.
• Support configuration, integration, testing and implementation of the required controls.
• Implement delivery-before-payment validation, invoice controls and exception-handling processes.
• Work closely with Procurement, Finance, Accounts Payable, Contract Management and Technology teams.
• Support contract compliance and recovery activities, including invoice reconciliation and recovery of missed credits, rebates and penalties.
• Ensure controls are tested and operational before the end of the engagement.

Skills

SAP P2P (Procure-to-Pay)

SAP S/4HANA or ECC – MM/FI

PO release strategies

GR/SES

3-way and 4-way invoice matching

Invoice blocking and tolerance

Invoice validation and exception

SAP Ariba and/or VIM

Functional specifications

Design, configuration, testing and I&M

Contract compliance and recovery

Rate cards, T&M returns, SOWs

Requirements elicitation

Process and system changes

Tools

SAP Ariba

VIM (Vendor Invoice Management)

Sirion CLM

Job description

Neev is seeking an experienced SAP HANA Solution Architect to support a strategic spend control initiative in the UK. The role focuses on identifying spend leakage across procurement and invoicing, including unapplied credits, rebates, and penalties.

You will build and maintain a leakage register and work with SAP, Ariba, Sirion CLM and analytics teams to implement effective controls, from requirements through to testing and deployment.