Purchase to Pay (P2P) Project Lead

Job Title: Purchase to Pay (P2P) Project Lead (24-month Contract)

Location: Glasgow (outskirts)

Start Date: 1-4 weeks

Overview

Our client is looking for an experienced Purchase to Pay Project Lead to shape and improve the company's global organisation end to end P2P processes as part of a major finance transformation programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the review, design and implementation of streamlined Purchase to Pay processes to strengthen efficiency, control and standardisation across the business
• Working closely with Procurement, Finance and operational teams to ensure processes align with business needs and support accounts payable activity
• Supporting the rollout of a new ERP system, acting as the P2P subject matter expert and ensuring consistent adoption of processes and controls across all sites
• Mapping current state activities and completing cost and workload analysis to identify improvement opportunities and inform future design decisions
• Developing clear workstream plans, setting priorities and ensuring initiatives are delivered to time, scope and quality
• Highlighting risks, dependencies and issues within the P2P landscape and ensuring these are appropriately managed or escalated
• Contributing to the creation of a long term transformation roadmap, including resource planning and capability requirements
• Establishing standardised KPIs and reporting measures to improve visibility, compliance and performance across P2P operations
• Driving continuous improvement activity, identifying opportunities to simplify processes, enhance controls and optimise supplier payment practices
• Supporting change management activity, ensuring stakeholders are informed, engaged and equipped to embed new ways of working

The Ideal Candidate

• Experienced in Purchase to Pay, accounts payable or wider finance process transformation, ideally gained within a large, complex organisation
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence navigating ERP related change
• Experience of leading standardisation or process redesign projects

On Offer

• 2-year contract with potential to extend
• £Competitive salary
• Early finish on a Friday

For more information, please contact Christina McLean at Rutherford Cross.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.