Procure to Pay (PTP) Team Lead
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Westport, MO
- Corporate
- Finance & Accounting
- Full-time
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As a Team Lead within the Procure to Pay (PTP) Concierge Team based in AbbVie Westport, you'll report directly to the Assistant Financial Controller. In this supervisory role, you'll oversee a team of 2-3 PTP specialists, ensuring their development and ongoing success. Your primary focus will be on developing, maintaining, and enhancing compliant PTP processes that effectively meet the needs of the Westport Site and align with broader AbbVie business objectives.
The PTP Team Lead is capable of leading and managing the PTP process and the corresponding team effectively and efficiently, increasing efficiency and ensuring the correct processing of all financial documents and related transactions in accordance with policies and internal requirements, performance metrics (KPIs), and objectives, as well as within the set delivery deadlines. The focus is consistently on customer-oriented service and continuous optimization of the process, team performance, and efficiency/service quality.
You must have proven experience in the PTP space with the appropriate process improvement, people management, multi-channel communication skills and be confident to partner with internal and external stakeholders of the business. Experience in process implementation and development would be desirable.
Responsibilities:
- Leading, developing and coaching the employees of the Westport Concierge Team, to achieve optimal results in the organization, processes, as well as in the implementation, improvement, expansion, and adaptation of the system for all transactions with and without purchase order (ACR) for service providers in terms of the PTP process.
- Ensuring strong leadership and compliance with requirements regarding the holistic process.
- Leading and conducting the holistic workflows from purchase requisition to payment of an invoice, through the individual process steps of goods receipt, service confirmation, correct posting and review of the payment run, as well as monitoring of the supplier master data process.
- Monthly measurement of KPI performance and corresponding analysis of workflows with the aim of optimizing them and finding solutions
- Implementation of all P2P process-related policies and legal requirements.
- Responsibility for the support provided by the team to meet the needs of the operational business and to optimize the quality, completeness, and timely provision of the service.
- Key role and close collaboration with Finance, FFS, PTP stakeholders and BPO to ensure timely and proper year-end, quarterly, and monthly closings as well as timely and satisfactory problem management, including problem escalation and resolution.
- Ensure successful processing of daily requirements from the business units through effective support, tracking, reporting, and team management.
- Ensure sustainability of process change and identify opportunities to collaborate with the unit on organizational impacts to ensure successful introduction and implementation.
- Develop, evaluate, and review internal controls to achieve and maintain minimization of risk areas
- Establish and maintain strong relationship with the global PTP function in order to stay connected to the latest global developments and have direct access to global support if needed
- Support collaboration with internal and external auditors upon request.
- Active leadership, collaboration, and consultation regarding PTP projects as needed.
- Representation of colleagues in case of vacation or illness
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline
- 5 years experience in a similar role
- Proven Procure to Pay experience.
- SAP/SRM experience is desirable.
- Experience as people leader or team lead is desirable.
- Proven experience of working with multi-functional teams and across all levels within the organization.
- Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills required to coordinate and manage multiple cross divisional work processes and projects.
- Strong knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook. Possesses ability to learn and utilize other software tools as necessary.
- Great Initiative and Self Motivating
So, are you ready to be part of this ambitious and diverse team? Apply today!
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