Senior AP/P2P Automation & Delivery Lead

SoftCo; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration and bonus

Company-paid health insurance

Pension and life assurance

Hybrid Working Model

On-site gym Dublin

Long service incentive awards

Structured learning and development

Job summary

SoftCo in Ireland is seeking a Senior Business Consultant who combines strong AP/P2P knowledge, solution design expertise and delivery leadership. This hands-on role challenges existing processes and translates business requirements into scalable SoftCo configurations, with the aim of improving consulting effectiveness and delivery quality.

Within six months, you will operate independently as a Solution and Delivery Lead while supporting the development of other consultants, and you will apply

Qualifications

• 5+ years in AP/P2P automation or finance transformation.
• Proven experience independently leading complex software implementations.
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence senior customer decision-makers.
• Hands-on experience translating business requirements into software configuration, testing and validated solutions.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites across Ireland, the UK and internationally as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops, assess customer processes and recommend improvements based on AP/P2P best practice.
• Challenge inefficient requirements and identify opportunities for automation, stronger controls and straight-through processing.
• Own functional solution design, translating business needs into scalable, supportable SoftCo configurations.
• Identify ERP and integration dependencies, collaborating with technical specialists to ensure an effective end-to-end solution.
• Lead implementations from discovery and design through configuration, testing, training, go-live and hypercare.
• Manage delivery plans, milestones, risks, scope, decisions and stakeholder communication.
• Remain hands-on with configuration, solution validation, troubleshooting and functional decision-making.
• Maintain high standards of documentation, testing, customer readiness and transition to Support.
• Actively use AI and approved knowledge tools to improve discovery, analysis, solution design, documentation and problem-solving.
• Identify opportunities to apply automation within customer AP/P2P processes.
• Validate AI-generated outputs, maintaining accuracy, security and customer confidentiality.
• Contribute to reusable solutions, knowledge sharing and improved delivery practices.
• Build trusted relationships with senior finance, accounts payable, procurement and technical stakeholders, confidently influencing decisions whilst delivering projects.
• Manage challenging requirements, competing priorities and escalations with sound consulting and commercial judgement.
• Mentor Business Consultants, review solution designs and provide functional guidance.
• Promote ownership, collaboration, independent thinking and high delivery standards.

Skills

AP/P2P automation

Finance transformation

Enterprise software implementation

Solution design

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

AI tools usage

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Microsoft Dynamics 365

NetSuite

Job description

SoftCo in Ireland is seeking a Senior Business Consultant who combines strong AP/P2P knowledge, solution design expertise and delivery leadership. This hands-on role challenges existing processes and translates business requirements into scalable SoftCo configurations, with the aim of improving consulting effectiveness and delivery quality.

Within six months, you will operate independently as a Solution and Delivery Lead while supporting the development of other consultants, and you will apply