Job Description
Overview:
This role is within Accenture Internal Procurement Team known as Center of Excellence responsible for driving Innovation and Transformation across our Source-to-Pay cycle. Our Mission is to ensure our systems are in line with Legal & Regulatory evolutions without any business disruptions
Center of Excellence (COE's) are individuals who own an end-to-end process across functional silos, geographic and business unit boundaries.
The Position:
Identify candidates with relevant experience in SAP S4 Hana, SAP BTP(Public Cloud). Individual is expected to own the End-to-End tool including changes, Enhancements, Issues, Business engagements around process improvements without disrupting our core system that could potentially impact other associated teams using the same tool. Apart from the core R&R, one needs to be also driving new tool implementations including Project Management, Requirement gathering, Technology Discussion, Testing of product including UAT, Regression, Sign-off, deployment and hypercare.
Roles & Responsibilities
Drive standardization, efficiency, top quartile performance & business outcomes across P2P
Serve as a subject matter expert for SAP FI module with a specialization in Accounts Payable processes aligned with Indirect Procurement workflows.
Ensure accurate invoice processing, vendor payments, and GR/IR reconciliation, working closely with Procurement, AP teams, and external suppliers.
Handle high-priority (P1/P2) incident tickets and deliver effective resolutions within SLAs, collaborating with both internal finance/procurement teams and external vendors.
Work with business stakeholders across Procurement, R2R, OTC, and Intercompany Accounting teams to ensure seamless financial operations.
Evaluate and implement enhancement requests related to procurement-to-pay (P2P) processes, ensuring alignment with SAP standards and business requirements.
Review and sign off on Functional Design Documents (FDD), ensuring completeness and accuracy of requirements.
Support and coordinate Product Testing (PT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and regression testing alongside business and technology teams.
Maintain audit readiness by producing necessary documentation and evidences for local/global internal and external audits.
Monitor and validate change requests for compliance with SAP core principles, ensuring no adverse impact on upstream/downstream finance functions.
Work with third-party vendors and integration partners to resolve data inconsistencies, interface errors, and ensure accurate financial postings.
Support finance teams during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, especially around procurement accruals, vendor reconciliation, and clearing.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related field.
SAP FI Certification (preferred but not mandatory).
Experience in working with ServiceNow, Jira, or other ticketing tools.
Exposure to SAP S/4HANA is a plus.
Skills and Qualifications:
Experience in F&A Process transformation, business process automation, process improvement and data analytics, specifically you must have led at least two F&A transformation projects
Experience shaping large scale digital AP transformations. You should be well versed with Industry digital F&A technologies and leading tools (SAP 4 HANA, SAP BTP, Power BI, Excel, Power Point), automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics and have a proven track record of implementing digital finance solutions
Experience in process diagnostic, recommendation, documentation and implementation of leading process and procedures for finance and accounts functions, including Procure to Pay (P2P), Record to Report (R2R), planning and budgeting, credit and collection, treasury, and taxation
Compliance with and understanding of regulatory requirements
Willingness to constructively dissent and challenge senior management thinking
Educated to bachelor's degree level specialization Finance & Accounting and relevant work experience
12+ years of total experience with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Transformation
