Accounts Payable Manager – Global Strategy

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Role Summary

• The Manager Accounts Payable (AP) Specialist Strategy is a key process intelligence and analytics leadership role responsible for driving datadriven performance management insight generation and continuous improvement across the global Accounts Payable process.
• Reporting into the Accounts Payable Global Process Owner (GPO) this role partners closely with GBS Procurement Finance GPS and IT to translate data into actionable insights identify structural inefficiencies and enable factbased decisionmaking. The role plays a critical part in advancing global standardization digital enablement and measurable business outcomes through advanced analytics process mining and performance reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Global AP Process Intelligence & Governance

• Support and continuously analyze the endtoend PurchasetoPay process across regions with a strong focus on AP execution exception management and issue resolution.
• Act as a process and data subjectmatter expert partnering with regional teams Procurement Finance GBS (Global Business Solution) and IT to ensure alignment with global standards policies and performance expectations.
• Maintain and enhance global AP process documentation controls and standards leveraging analytics to validate adherence and identify gaps.
• Work closely with global and regional stakeholders to align on performance expectations data interpretation and improvement priorities.

Performance Management Analytics & Insights

• Own and deliver global AP performance reporting including daily weekly and monthly KPI dashboards aligned with GPS and P2P performance frameworks.
• Use data analytics and process mining (Celonis PowerBi Alteryx) to identify trends bottlenecks root causes risks and structural inefficiencies across invoice flows vendor performance and payment outcomes.
• Develop actionable insightdriven recommendations for the AP GPO Procurement leadership Service Delivery teams and Finance to support prioritization investment decisions and performance improvement.
• Define refine and evolve AP KPIs to ensure relevance consistency and value realization.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on AP performance analytics and process intelligence topics.

Continuous Improvement & Transformation Enablement

• Identify quantify and prioritize datadriven continuous improvement opportunities across the AP process using analytics and process mining to surface efficiency compliance working capital and vendor experience gaps.
• Support the execution of global AP and P2P transformation initiatives by providing factbased analysis performance tracking and benefits realization monitoring (e.g. working capital optimization invoice quality vendor master performance).
• Support change impact assessments and adoption activities using analytics to measure readiness adoption and postimplementation performance.

Technology Reporting & Automation Enablement

• Support the deployment stabilization and optimization of AP systems and analytics solutions including Coupa JDE SAP Tungsten and other enterprise platforms with a strong focus on data integrity and reporting reliability.
• Actively contribute to automation reporting and data enablement initiatives leveraging BI platforms process mining AI capabilities and RPA to reduce manual effort and improve insight availability.
• Partner with IT and analytics teams to define reporting requirements dashboards and selfservice analytics capabilities.
• Leverage process and system mining tools (e.g. Celonis) to analyze endtoend AP process flows variants rework and compliance deviations.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Finance Accounting Economics Analytics or a related field.
• Proven experience in Accounts Payable operations or a global AP process leadership role with strong exposure to performance management and analytics.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a global matrixed environment influencing without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with handson experience designing producing and interpreting KPI reports and dashboards.
• Experience with Accounts Payable technology platforms including ERP and P2P systems (e.g. Coupa JDE SAP) OCR solutions and invoice workflow tools.
• Experience with process mining and analytics tools (e.g. Celonis) and business intelligence platforms (e.g. Power BI Cognos).
• Strong ability to translate data into insights insights into actions and actions into measurable outcomes.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation gender identity or expression protected veteran status disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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