This is a Senior AP Deployment Specialist role focused on Accounts Payable transformation and deployment initiatives. You will represent AP operational requirements throughout the deployment lifecycle, ensuring future-state processes are operationally sustainable and practical for AP teams across global countries.
Key responsibilities
- Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions to identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements.
- Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval workflows, exception handling, and operational practices.
- Review and validate Process Design Documents (PDDs), business requirements, process flows, controls, exception scenarios, and operating procedures.
- Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP operational activities, controls, and exception handling requirements.
- Execute UAT and validate solutions against approved business requirements, identifying defects, process gaps, usability concerns, operational impacts, and business risks.
- Support deployment planning, readiness assessments, cutover activities, and country go-live preparations.
- Act as an AP User during go-live and hyper-care activities, supporting issue identification, investigation, prioritization, escalation, and resolution.
- Monitor user adoption, operational effectiveness, exception trends, and process performance.
- Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, user experience, controls, and operational efficiency.
- Provide operational feedback to guide future solution enhancements and country rollouts.
About you
- 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 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: Experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.
- Preferred: Experience supporting ERP, invoice processing, workflow, or automation deployments.
- Preferred: Exposure to intelligent document processing, workflow automation, RPA, or AI-enabled finance solutions.