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Role Summary The Manager – Accounts Payable (AP) Specialist Strategy is a key process intelligence and analytics leadership role responsible for driving data-driven performance management, insight generation, and continuous improvement across the global Accounts Payable process.

Reporting into the Accounts Payable Global Process Owner (GPO) , this role partners closely with GBS, Procurement, Finance, GPS, and IT to translate data into actionable insights , identify structural inefficiencies, and enable fact-based decision-making. The role plays a critical part in advancing global standardization, digital enablement, and measurable business outcomes through advanced analytics, process mining, and performance reporting .

Key Responsibilities Global AP Process Intelligence & Governance

- Support and continuously analyze the end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay process across regions, with a strong focus on AP execution, exception management, and issue resolution.
- Act as a process and data subject-matter expert, partnering with regional teams,
- Procurement, Finance, GBS (Global Business Solution) and IT to ensure alignment with global standards, policies, and performance expectations.




- Maintain and enhance global AP process documentation, controls, and standards, leveraging analytics to validate adherence and identify gaps.
- Work closely with global and regional stakeholders to align on performance expectations, data interpretation, and improvement priorities.

Performance Management, Analytics & Insights

- Own and deliver global AP performance reporting, including daily, weekly, and monthly KPI dashboards aligned with GPS and P2P performance frameworks.
- Use data analytics and process mining (Celonis, PowerBi, Alteryx,…) to identify trends, bottlenecks, root causes, risks, and structural inefficiencies across invoice flows, vendor performance, and payment outcomes.
- Develop actionable, insight-driven recommendations for the AP GPO, Procurement leadership, Service Delivery teams, and Finance to support prioritization, investment decisions, and performance improvement.
- Define, refine, and evolve AP KPIs to ensure relevance, consistency, and value realization.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on AP performance, analytics, and process intelligence topics.

Continuous Improvement & Transformation Enablement

- Identify, quantify, and prioritize data‑driven continuous improvement opportunities across the AP process, using analytics and process mining to surface efficiency, compliance, working capital, and vendor experience gaps.
- Support the execution of global AP and P2P transformation initiatives by providing fact‑based analysis, performance tracking, and advantages realization monitoring (e.g., working capital optimization, invoice quality, vendor master performance).




- Support change impact assessments and adoption activities using analytics to measure readiness, adoption, and post-implementation performance.

Technology, Reporting & Automation Enablement

- Support the deployment, stabilization, and optimization of AP systems and analytics solutions, including Coupa, JDE, SAP, Tungsten, and other enterprise platforms, with a strong focus on data integrity and reporting reliability.
- Actively contribute to automation, reporting, and data enablement initiatives, leveraging BI platforms, process mining, AI capabilities, and RPA to reduce manual effort and improve insight availability.
- Partner with IT and analytics teams to define reporting requirements, dashboards, and self-service analytics capabilities.
- Leverage process and system mining tools (e.g., Celonis) to analyze end-to-end AP process flows, variants, rework, and compliance deviations.

Experience & Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Analytics, or a
- related field.
- Proven experience in Accounts Payable operations or a global AP process leadership role, with strong exposure to performance management and analytics.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a global, matrixed environment, influencing without direct authority.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with hands-on experience designing, producing, and interpreting KPI reports and dashboards.
- Experience with Accounts Payable technology platforms, including ERP and P2P systems (e.g., Coupa, JDE, SAP), OCR solutions, and invoice workflow tools.
- Experience with process mining and analytics tools (e.g., Celonis) and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Power BI, Cognos).
- Strong ability to translate data into insights, insights into actions, and actions into measurable outcomes.

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