Role overview
As the Process Excellence Lead of Procure to Pay (P2P) within Finance Delivery, you’ll be accountable for a consistent design and deployment of P2P end-to-end process transformation initiatives to deliver an efficient, effective process with a great user experience.
What you’ll do
Process Performance & Continuous Improvement: Review end-to-end P2P performance, analyse deviations, pain points and root causes, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness and user experience.
Business Cases & Benefits Realisation: Develop detailed P2P business cases, agree value drivers and lead process improvements through implementation, ensuring benefits are measured and realised.
Process Documentation & Standardisation: Maintain accurate, accessible end-to-end P2P process maps, procedures and documentation for end users and Finance Operations. Drive standardisation, simplification and automation across the process.
Process Operating Committees: Lead the P2P Process Operating Committees, bringing together key stakeholders to share best practice, prioritise improvements, secure buy-in and support delivery of end-to-end transformation.
Process Governance, Risk & Compliance: Support the GPO in maintaining effective process governance, ensuring compliance with P2P policies, controls and design principles. Monitor process risks, assess control effectiveness and escalate material issues and exceptions.
Data, Reporting & KPIs: Work with Finance Operations and Technology to develop meaningful KPIs, improve data quality and reporting, and leverage process analytics and automation to identify bottlenecks, measure performance and drive continuous improvement.
S4Sky Transformation Support: Support the P2P GPO throughout the S4Sky transformation, contributing to end-to-end process design, Fit-Gap assessments, business requirements and Key Design Decisions (KDDs). Support Design Authority Group (DAG) governance, including assessment of design options, impacts and dependencies. Contribute to business testing, UAT, defect resolution, deployment and successful transition into BAU.
Stakeholder & Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships across Procurement, Finance Operations, Technology and the wider business, ensuring alignment on priorities, effective collaboration, issue resolution and successful delivery of P2P improvements.
Change Management & Adoption: Work with Operations, Procurement and Change teams to support effective communication, training and adoption of new processes and systems, ensuring improvements are embedded and sustained.
What you'll bring
Essential Criteria
Qualified Finance & Lean Six Sigma Professional with deep experience in Finance Delivery and Systems.
PTP Transformation Lead with a track record of measurable operational and financial impact.
SAP Ariba & ERP Specialist experienced in complex financial system environments.
Continuous Improvement & Project Manager skilled at process mapping, requirements analysis, and execution.
Strong Commercial Communicator adept at managing external networks, industry best practices
Desirable Criteria
Bachelor’s degree
Operational experience in managing teams delivering PTP services
Experience of SAP S/4 HANA implementation
Experience within OTC or A2R end-to-end processes
Demonstrate understanding of Sky operations
Benefits and perks
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:
Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
Private healthcare with mental health support
Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
Sharesave and Tech schemes
A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you’ll work
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