Yooz administration and purchase-to-pay support
- Act as the primary day-to-day administrator for Yooz, managing system configuration, operational queries and issue resolution.
- Manage supplier onboarding and amendments, including bank-detail changes, in line with established verification and approval processes.
- Maintain invoice, purchase order, payment and approval workflows, including user roles, permissions, approval limits and access rights.
- Investigate and resolve invoice-routing, data and processing issues across Yooz, SAP and connected systems. This can include collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Perform reconciliations between systems and support safe correction or reprocessing where transactions have failed or been recorded incorrectly, while managing duplicate-posting and payment risks.
- Apply appropriate controls to supplier data, payments and user access, maintaining segregation of duties and clear audit trails.
- Ensure manual overrides and administrator functions are used only where appropriate and fully documented.
- Support system enhancements, integrations, testing and migration activity across Yooz, SAP and related finance platforms.
- Maintain system documentation, access records and process guidance, while identifying opportunities to simplify workflows and reduce manual intervention.
Essential
- Demonstrable hands-on experience administering Yooz, or a comparable purchase-to-pay system in a live finance environment.
- Practical experience using and supporting SAP, ideally within accounts payable, supplier management or purchase-to-pay processes.
- Experience managing supplier records, bank-detail changes, invoice workflows, approval chains and user access.
- Strong understanding of purchase-to-pay controls, segregation of duties and the risks associated with supplier and payment data
- The ability to investigate and resolve finance-system issues, interpret available evidence and progress appropriate solutions independently.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing operational priorities without weakening controls
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to understand requests accurately and explain system issues in plain English.
- Experience supporting system change, enhancement, testing or migration activity.
Desirable
- Experience integrating or reconciling data between Yooz and SAP.
- Experience in renewable energy, infrastructure, investment management or another asset-backed environment
- Familiarity with SAP finance modules and accounts-payable processes.
- Experience working with external asset managers, outsourced finance providers or third-party system vendors.
- Experience documenting finance-system processes, controls and operating procedures.
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