P2P Finance Specialist

AstraZeneca plc; Amsterdam; Hybride; EUR 52 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Bonus scheme

13th-month salary

Training and development programs

27 vacation days

Wellness budget

Pension plan

Stock plan

Résumé du poste

AstraZeneca plc is seeking a P2P Finance Specialist in Amsterdam. The role blends business-user support with finance execution across Procure-to-Pay, SAP, and Coupa. You will ensure accurate purchasing, invoicing, and supplier data, while contributing to process improvements in a hybrid work setting.

In this position you will partner with scientists and finance colleagues, supporting day-to-day activities and month-end close, with a pathway to broader responsibility within a growing team.

Qualifications

• A finance degree with a strong foundation in accounting and P2P processes.
• Hands-on experience with SAP and Coupa is essential.
• Fluent English and strong analytical skills are required.

Responsabilités

• Provide day-to-day Procure-to-Pay support to scientists and business users.
• Process purchase requisitions, create purchase orders in Coupa, and monitor approvals.
• Review SAP data for procurement and invoicing, challenging discrepancies.
• Maintain vendor data in SAP and Coupa to ensure data integrity.
• Support month-end close and accruals for the P2P area.
• Contribute to process improvements and cross-team collaboration.

Connaissances

SAP

Coupa

Procure-to-Pay

MS Excel

English

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Formation

Bachelor's or Master's in Finance

Outils

SAP

Coupa

Description du poste

Own the numbers. Support the people who make the science happen.

P2P Finance Specialist

Location: Amsterdam

Fulltime | Hybrid | 3 days in the office

In this role you will join our Group Financial Reporting team, which provides controllership activities to legal entities across the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom. We're standardising how we support those entities — same processes, same reporting, done well — with collaboration and continuous improvement at the centre of it. The team is based in Poland; this role focuses on the Dutch entity and you will be based in Amsterdam.

Acerta Pharma, part of the AstraZeneca Group, is planning to relocate its offices from Oss to Amsterdam in early 2027. Until the relocation, you will work from our current Oss office one day per week, with the remaining office‑based days in Amsterdam. Once the relocation is complete, your office‑based work will be fully based in Amsterdam.

This is a hands‑on position with defined responsibility rather than a strategic or oversight role. It offers a structured environment, close collaboration with an established team, and a clear route to broader responsibility over time.

What does a typical week look like?

Business user support

Approximately half of the role is spent working directly with our scientists and other business users, supporting transactional activity across the Procure-to-Pay cycle. This includes reviewing purchase requisitions, preparing and creating purchase orders in Coupa, monitoring approval workflows, and confirming that goods and services have been received and recorded correctly.

Finance and accounting

The remaining half is the finance work behind the transaction: reviewing accounting information in SAP for procurement and invoice transactions, resolving matching exceptions, and ensuring that transactions are correctly coded, posted and controlled.

You hold day‑to‑day ownership of your area. Purchasing, invoicing, accounting and supplier‑related processes must be completed accurately, efficiently and in accordance with company policy and financial controls. Certain elements of the global process are managed by colleagues elsewhere in the organisation, and the role is not therefore a fully end‑to‑end process. .

Key responsibilities

Support to scientists and business users

• Act as the first point of contact for business users across the full Procure-to-Pay cycle, from initial enquiry through to settled invoice
• Review purchase requisitions and support the preparation and creation of purchase orders in Coupa
• Monitor approval workflows and follow up on items that are delayed
• Verify goods and service receipts and ensure they are recorded accurately
• Support business users through the Coupa accruals review, so that month‑end positions are understood by those who own the spend
• Respond to supplier and user enquiries and pursue them through to resolution
• Deliver Procure-to-Pay process training for business users, reducing the recurrence of routine queries

Finance and accounting responsibilities

• Review accounting information in SAP relating to procurement and invoice transactions, and work with finance colleagues to correct coding and posting errors
• Investigate and resolve exceptions, including two‑way matching issues, price discrepancies, quantity differences, missing receipts, incorrect purchase orders, duplicate invoices, tax matters and incomplete accounting information
• Maintain the accuracy and integrity of vendor master data in both SAP and Coupa, so that the process operates correctly from the outset
• Monitor and track purchases across the company
• Ensure transactions comply with company policy, accounting principles, approval requirements, segregation‑of‑duties principles, tax requirements and applicable internal control standards
• Support audit requests and provide the supporting documentation required
• Support the Financial Controller with entity‑specific finance requests
• Prepare data for CBS Surveys submission

Month-end, year-end and process improvement

• Support month‑end and year‑end close by monitoring outstanding invoices, unreceived goods or services, blocked invoices, open purchase orders and other Procure‑to‑Pay items
• Take ownership of the accruals element of close for the area, including the Coupa accruals review with business users
• Contribute ideas for the improvement of Procure‑to‑Pay and Accounts Payable processes; proposals are welcomed, and it is preferable to raise a process issue than to work around it
• Assume additional responsibilities over time, either for Acerta or by extending established local practices to other entities

What we are looking for

• A bachelor's or master's degree in finance, with a minimum of two years of post‑qualification experience
• Practical working experience of SAP — essential
• Practical working experience of Coupa — essential
• A practical understanding of Procure‑to‑Pay processes and of finance and accounting principles
• Proficiency in MS Excel for day‑to‑day analysis and tracking
• Fluent English, both verbal and written
• Ownership of the area: follows matters through to conclusion without requiring prompting
• A hands‑on approach, personal initiative, and a willingness to learn
• The confidence to engage with a range of teams across a complex organisation in order to obtain answers
• Analytical ability, attention to detail, a solution‑driven mindset and focus on delivery

Your effort is rewarded

As a P2P Finance Specialist, you can expect much in return for your dedication. In addition to a competitive salary, you will enjoy:

• An attractive bonus scheme and a 13th‑month salary on top of your monthly pay.
• Access to internal training and development programs.
• 27 vacation days, plus additional leave (such as your birthday, Good Friday, and the period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve).
• Flexible and progressive employment benefits allowing you to tailor them to your needs (e.g., a wellness budget and the choice of a holiday calendar based on different religious beliefs).
• A pension plan
• Share plan: Opportunity to participate in our stock program with contributions from AstraZeneca

About AstraZeneca Oncology R&D, Amsterdam

At AstraZeneca Amsterdam, we bring together two research groups, in haemato‑oncology and next‑generation cell therapy research. Together, they form our OncologyR&D hub in the Netherlands, working closely with colleagues in the US, Canada,Spainand the UK, to develop innovative treatments for patients with cancer.

Our haematology R&D group was born asAcertaPharma, one of the Netherlands’ greatest biotech success stories. Its small‑molecule BTK inhibitor has been approved by both the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of Chronic LymphocyticLeukemia(CLL) and Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL). In Amsterdam approximately 100 colleagues continue the development of new therapies forhaematologicalmalignancies under the AstraZeneca brand name.

AstraZeneca’s Cell Therapy R&D team focuses on developing next‑generation T‑cell receptor (TCR) therapies targeting neoantigens in solidtumors. With a team of around 75 scientists, we work on both fullyindividualizedand shared neo‑antigen approaches, with the aim of improving outcomes for patients with cancer.

Our oncology research and development hub is anchored by our newstate‑of‑the‑artlaboratories inOneHelixand the adjacent Plus Ultra Amsterdam building, bothlocatedon the Amsterdam University Medical Centre ( Amsterdam UMC) campus. Our hub is firmly positioned at the heart of the Dutch research community network, creating new opportunities for our people, our science, and the patients we work to transform outcomes for.

Date Posted

06-Oct-2026

Closing Date

21-Oct-2026

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry‑leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non‑discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

Contact: [e-mail] or by phone on +31(0)85 - 047 0244.