Our passion at SumUp is championing small businesses. We believe in creating technology that is flexible, fair, affordable and easy to use. Every day millions of people around the world dream of starting their own businesses. We strive to help them to do this. Our long-term ambition is to “close the loop” by enabling businesses to turn transactions with customers into long-term relationships.
In Sofia or São Paulo we are looking for the Global Process Owner Accounts Payable (Procure to Pay) for our Global Accounting team.
This role will play a crucial part in advancing SumUp to a world-class level of Financial processes through implementing robust but light-weight processes, leveraging time-saving automation, and empowering our talented teams all over the world. Your contribution will be key to ensuring SumUp's continued success and growth. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on our company's future!
What will you do:
Possess full ownership of global Procure to Pay (P2P) processes and act as a subject matter expert
Provide both strategic as well as tactical insight into global processes, automation opportunities, and future-state developments for our global P2P process
Develops strategy collaboratively and establish policy of a global nature for the organization’s P2P activities
Execute global deployment and adoption of the P2P processes with regional and local customization as needed
Contribute to selection of tools, techniques and systems according to architectural requirements and demands
Analyze, develop new and adjust existing end to end processes/ services, standards or operational plans, and deliver results with direct impact on P2P process
Participate in our ERP and system enhancements, and drive communications and change management activities including training to prepare the organization for continuous process improvements
Stay abreast of current accounting, business process trends, and leading practices occurring in the industry to inform strategic direction and process enhancement including artificial intelligence (AI)
Lead M&A integration activities for P2P and participate in global transformational and cross-functional process and system improvement initiatives to drive efficiencies and scalable end-to-end processes to ensure our P2P processes are meeting the needs of the global business
Support the internal controls process design and implementation and advice on improvement areas
Work closely with internal audit and external auditors to ensure all compliance activities are properly executed in a timely manner
You’ll be great for this role if
You have 5+ years of accounting experience in P2P process or general accounting experience
You hold a Bachelor’s degree (BA) or Master's degree in Accounting
You possess ACCA certification or similar relevant certifications
You have an advanced knowledge of ERP, MS Office and process mapping tools (Miro, Licudchart, etc.)
You have process knowledge, process mapping experience and subject matter expertise
You have project management and change management skills and thrive in a fast paced environment
You have strong communication skills and you are as persuasive in English both written and spoken as in your mother tongue
You deeply understand SumUp business, and can easily translate strategic decisions into tack
You have people management skills, you lead by example and inspire teams and individuals to grow
If you have IT and AI skills, which would be a strong advantage for this role.
Why you should join SumUp
We’re a truly global team of 3000+ people from 90+ countries, spread across 4 continents
You'll have the opportunity to make an impact as we work in flat hierarchies
You'll have the space to drive your career here and take ownership of projects
You'll be able to attend team events and offsites
Office relaxation activities such as yoga and massages and regular brunches, football events and office parties
About SumUp
We believe in the everyday hero.
Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love.
SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.
SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.
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