Description
Innovate and shape what comes next at AIA. As the Functional Architect for Source-to-Pay, you will provide deep functional and technical expertise to translate business requirements into integrated procurement solutions. Your primary focus will be on sourcing, procurement, supplier management, purchase orders, goods and service receipt, invoice processing, accounts payable integration, and payment-related processes.
Responsibilities:
- Review and understand current Procure-to-Pay processes, system functionality, configuration, master data, transaction flows, controls, pain points, and system constraints with internal support teams and business stakeholders.
- Assess existing procurement and accounts payable custom programs, enhancements, reports, workflows, interfaces, and forms, determining their business purpose, dependencies, and continued relevance.
- Lead and participate in business requirement and fit-to-standard workshops covering various aspects of procurement and accounts payable.
- Review and validate process designs, solution blueprints, configuration documents, and functional specifications to ensure completeness, traceability, and alignment with AIA requirements, policies, and controls.
- Evaluate end-to-end integration impacts across various systems and platforms.
- Provide functional oversight of data migration and validate data scope, mapping, cleansing, reconciliation, and business acceptance controls.
- Oversee functional testing, including unit-test results and supporting integration, user acceptance, and regression testing.
- Act as the primary functional bridge among business teams, procurement, finance, and internal support teams.
- Plan, coordinate, and verify knowledge transfer to internal support teams.
- Provide functional leadership for cutover, business readiness, end-user training, go-live, hypercare, and transition to business-as-usual support.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of financial system functional experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on experience across Source-to-Pay processes.
- Hands-on experience in at least one end-to-end migration or transformation.
- Strong functional knowledge of procurement processes and systems.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA procurement is preferable.
- Proven ability to review deliverables and translate business requirements into solutions.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder-management, and communication skills.