SAP Centre of Excellence (COE) – Source to Pay - AP & VIM Senior Professional

This role is responsible for providing expert level functional and technical support for SAP S/4HANA Source to Pay (S2P) processes, with a primary focus on Account Payables and Vendor Invoice Management, and integration with S/4HANA in the Sustain Operations environment. The role ensures continuous process improvement, system stability, solution optimization, and alignment with enterprise-wide strategic objectives through best-in-class SAP S2P solutions.

Goal of function:

Fulfil all the technology requirements for Procurement function e.g. Evaluate, implement new process & tools globally and support existing process and platforms deployed globally

Key tasks:

• Understand business requirements to design and deliver the appropriate solutions.

• Participate in the S/4 HANA roll out to other BUs and geographies.

• Collaborate with other ITS, GBS etc. teams or Enterprise Excellence teams and externals to deliver appropriate solutions to the business.

• Oversee tracking &resolution for production support issues, ensuring timely delivery of
  enhancements (BAU), managing escalations, and providing regular status updates to project leadership.

The function incumbent reports to: GBS-ITS Process Lead/ Service Lead

Key Performance Indicators

• Meet project objectives and project milestones considering planned resources and deadlines, approved project scope and requested quality of project deliverables.
• Risk awareness and corrective action where applicable
• Project-related targets
• SLA for Production support issues

Qualifications, experience, know-how and skills critical for success*

• Any Graduate/MBA
• Up to 10 years’ experience in a relevant area
• Worked on configuration of Archive Document type creation, DP document type with-
• Business rules: Developed & configured many business rules in various open text documents to perform validations.
• Workflow: Knowledge about Invoice approval workflow, VIM DP workflow, Blocking workflow.
• Chart of authority (COA): Complete knowledge of the COA maintenance for Requestor and approval process based on cost center, expense types etc.
• Roles: Defining the roles based on the various actors involved in procure to payment cycle, Maintaining role templates and corresponding fields configuration
• Role determination & Exception handling: Created many functional modules to perform validation for roles determination and validation agents
• Open Text Invoice Capture Center (ICC/BCC) with VIM: Configured ICC/BCC validation, created ICC/BCC archive document type, defining validation framework.
• Open Text Invoice Extraction Services (IES / IC4S) with VIM: Configured IES profile & validation, created IES archive document type, defining validation framework.
• VIM analytics reports enhancement: Enhanced analytics report by additional columns based on custom logic, added sub screen with additional selection options
• IDOC channel id mapping for 3rd party OCR
• Strong Communication Skills, Excellent Customer Service Orientation, Problem-Solving Mindset, Attention to Details, Adaptability & Quick Learning, Team Collaboration, Time Management, Reliability & Accountability
• SAP S/4 Invoicing expert and VIM
• SAP Ariba Invoicing
• SAP S/4 and VIM

Work in different time-zones based on project need.