Procurement Operations Associate

About the Role

Accenture is a global professional services company. This role is within the Procurement vertical, focusing on acquiring goods, services, or works from external sources.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for Spot Buy Sourcing, a custom B2B marketplace approach for placing purchase orders rapidly with improved pricing.
• Involved in a Self-service requisitioning application to control requester spending.
• Handle multiple activities including researching and sourcing vendors from client-approved supplier lists.
• Obtain quotes for pricing, capabilities, turnaround times, and quality of work.
• Negotiate contracts.
• Create and manage the Purchase Order lifecycle, including purchase requisitions, approvals, goods receipts, and invoices.
• Liaise with internal and external vendors to resolve procurement, billing, and payment discrepancies while maintaining high-quality customer service.
• Identify and recommend process changes or solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Accurate processing of PO/NON PO invoices in Coupa/SAP.
• Sort and scan received invoices, then send them to OCR Batch.
• Determine and resolve interface/posting errors.
• Assist the team with GRIR clearing and Debit balance clearing.
• Investigate variance and clear debit balances for GRIR account clearing.
• Ensure team reconciles vendor statements on agreed timelines and resolves open items in account reconciliations.
• Generate ad-hoc or agreed reports from SAP within agreed timelines.
• Support Internal/external audit requirements and ensure SOX Compliance.
• Timely update of process documents (SOPs)/procedures.
• Ability to carry out Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and recommend Corrective Action Plans (CAP).
• Adhere to SLA / KPI / Other relevant metrics reporting.
• Solve increasingly complex problems.
• Solve routine problems, largely through precedent and referral to general guidelines.

Working Conditions

• Expected interactions are within your own team and direct supervisor.
• Will be provided detailed to moderate level of instruction on daily work tasks and detailed instruction on new assignments.
• Decisions made will impact your own work.
• An individual contributor as part of a team with a predetermined, focused scope of work.
• This role may require working in rotational shifts.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Procurement Operations
• Procurement Support
• Coupa/SAP
• GRIR account clearing
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• SOX Compliance
• SLA / KPI / Other relevant metrics reporting

Qualifications

• Any Graduation