Global Senior AP Transformation & Deployment Lead

LAVU TECH SOLUTIONS SDN. BHD.; Penang; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LAVU TECH SOLUTIONS SDN. BHD. in Penang seeks a Senior AP Deployment Specialist to drive Accounts Payable transformation and deployment initiatives.

You will represent AP requirements across the deployment lifecycle to ensure future-state processes are sustainable for AP teams globally. Responsibilities include designing country-specific requirements, validating design documents, creating end-to-end UAT scenarios, and supporting go-live activities with hyper-care.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Communication skills

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance/related

Tools

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

LAVU TECH SOLUTIONS SDN. BHD. in Penang seeks a Senior AP Deployment Specialist to drive Accounts Payable transformation and deployment initiatives.

You will represent AP requirements across the deployment lifecycle to ensure future-state processes are sustainable for AP teams globally. Responsibilities include designing country-specific requirements, validating design documents, creating end-to-end UAT scenarios, and supporting go-live activities with hyper-care.