Purchasing and Accounts Payable Specialist with Deputy Team Leadership

What you can achieve.

• You are responsible for the further development of the administrative purchasing and invoice receipt processes and independently implement measures to increase efficiency. In addition to smaller continuous improvement projects, this also includes representing the specialist departments in process adjustments and the automation of workflows. In this context, you maintain an intensive exchange with internal partners, clients, and suppliers to achieve benefit potentials for the overall process.
• In the implementation project for SAP S/4Hana, you will be able to deal with the Common Core (common process standard), the development and documentation of new functions, the training of employees, and the support of parallel operations (R/3, S/4).
• For our reporting system, you will take responsibility for the monitoring and control of our most important key performance indicators (KPI). You will create comprehensive analyses for various stakeholders from management and specialist departments and develop sound recommendations.
• Together with the management team, you will ensure that our applied methods, tools, and divisional strategy are selected, built, and implemented in a goal-oriented manner (benefit, efficiency, transparency).
• To ensure you understand the operational daily business and can take over various inquiries, you will participate partially.

What you bring with you.

• You are a curious, knowledge-hungry personality with a precise and thoughtful way of working. You can perform your activities independently within a given framework and work expeditiously, efficiently, and persistently. Thanks to your proactivity, you support changes and actively commit to their implementation.
• Through your high quality standards as well as your business understanding, you recognize optimization potential and implement corresponding improvement projects with enthusiasm.
• As an innovative leader with strong judgment and assertiveness, you strive for high quality and are characterized by a strong service orientation.
• You are motivated to further develop the team and the organization through an open feedback and error culture. In our area, teamwork is the key to success. As a team player, you contribute to a motivating working atmosphere.
• You have a high affinity for processes, systems, and new technologies (RPA, AI, ML). In addition, we require good SAP knowledge (SAP R/3 & S4 MM & FI module). You have gained your initial professional experience in relevant areas such as finance and/or purchasing.
• In addition to a completed degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Accounting or Purchasing, you also bring initial experience in the functional leadership of employees. German is your native language and you bring good knowledge of a second national language.