AP Deployment Specialist

LAVU TECH SOLUTIONS SDN. BHD.; Cyberjaya; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LAVU TECH SOLUTIONS SDN. BHD. is seeking an experienced Senior AP Deployment Specialist to lead country-specific AP validation, UAT planning, and deployment readiness across multiple countries.

You will work with global teams to ensure future-state AP processes meet operational needs and regulatory requirements. The role emphasizes hands-on business validation, defect triage support, and ensuring a smooth transition to steady-state AP operations, with a focus on scalable, sustainable processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related discipline required.
• 5-7 years of experience in Accounts Payable, Procure-to-Pay, Shared Services, Finance Operations, or AP transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions.
• Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval of workflows, exception handling, and operational practices.
• Identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements.
• Validate that local requirements are correctly understood and documented.
• Review and validate Process Design Documents (PDDs) and business requirements, process flows, controls, and operating procedures.
• Confirm that future-state processes reflect AP operational requirements and business realities.
• Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP activities.
• Prepare and maintain required business test data.
• Execute UAT and validate solutions against requirements.
• Support deployment readiness, go-live preparations, and hyper-care activities.
• Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence after deployment.

Skills

Accounts Payable

Procure-to-Pay

Finance Operations

AP transformation

UAT involvement

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Cross-country collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or related

5-7 years of experience in AP/finance

Tools

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

• Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions.


• Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval of workflows, exception handling, and operational practices.


• Identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements.


• Validate that local requirements are correctly understood and documented.


• Assess operational impacts associated with proposed future-state processes.

2. Process Validation & Future-State Readiness

• Review and validate Process Design Documents (PDDs), business requirements, process flows, controls, exception scenarios, and operating procedures.


• Confirm that future-state processes accurately reflect AP operational requirements and business realities.


• Evaluate how future-state processes will be operated, supported, and governed by AP after deployment.


• Identify operational gaps, support requirements, ownership requirements, and adoption risks.


• Validate that future-state solutions are scalable, sustainable, and practical for long-term AP operations.

3. Business Validation & User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP operational activities, controls, and exception handling requirements.


• Prepare and maintain required business test data.


• Execute UAT and validate solutions against approved business requirements.


• Confirm that business outcomes are achieved, not solely that system functions operate.


• Identify defects, process gaps, usability concerns, operational impacts, and business risks.


• Support defect triage, retesting, and business sign-off activities. SIT ownership: System Integration Testing is performed by the implementation and development teams. The Senior AP Deployment Specialist focuses on business validation and UAT activities.

4. Deployment Readiness & Go-Live Support

• Support deployment planning, readiness assessments, cutover activities, and country go-live preparations.


• Confirm operational readiness across users, controls, work instructions, exception handling procedures, and support processes.


• Coordinate deployment of readiness activities with country AP teams.


• Validate user preparedness and operational readiness before deployment.


• Support business go-live activities and the transition into production operations.


• Act as an AP User during go-live and hyper-care activities.


• Support issue identification, investigation, prioritization, escalation, and resolution.


• Monitor user adoption, operational effectiveness, exception trends, and process performance.


• Support the transition from project deployment to steady-state AP ownership and operations. Validate that AP teams are fully prepared to own and sustain future-state processes.

6. AP Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, user experience, controls, and operational efficiency.


• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement activities for future deployment waves.


• Promote the adoption of standardized global processes across countries.


• Support AP adoption of intelligent automation and future AI-enabled capabilities.


• Provide operational feedback to guide future solution enhancements and country rollouts.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or related discipline.


• 5-7 years of experience in Accounts Payable, Procure-to-Pay, Shared Services, Finance Operations, or AP transformation initiatives.


• Strong understanding of invoice processing, approvals, exception management, controls, and payment of readiness processes.


• Experience participating in UAT, deployment, go-live, hyper-care, or operational improvement initiatives.


• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.


• Ability to work effectively across global teams and multiple countries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.


• Experience supporting ERP, invoice processing, workflow, or automation deployments.


• Exposure to intelligent document processing, workflow automation, RPA, or AI-enabled finance solutions.


• Experience supporting global or multi-country transformation programs.


• Experience in Shared Services or Global Business Services organizations.

Critical Success Factors

• Represent AP operational requirements throughout the deployment lifecycle.


• Bring practical AP operational expertise into process reviews, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities.


• Ensure future-state processes are operationally sustainable and practical for AP teams.


• Identify operational risks, process gaps, control concerns, and adoption challenges early.


• Support successful UAT, deployment of readiness, go-live, hyper-care, and stabilization activities.


• Build credibility with AP users, operational stakeholders, and project teams.


• Drive successful user adoption and transition into steady-state operations.


• Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence following deployment.

What Success Looks Like

• AP operational requirements are accurately represented throughout the deployment lifecycle.


• Country-specific business requirements are validated and appropriately incorporated.


• PDDs, requirements, and operational procedures reflect real-world AP operating needs.


• UAT scenarios cover realistic business activities and exception conditions.


• AP users are prepared for deployment, adoption, and future-state operations.


• Future-state processes are operationally sustainable and can be effectively owned and managed by AP teams after project completion.


• Country deployments achieve successful business adoption with minimal disruption.


• Hypercare activities transition smoothly into stable operations and business ownership.