Procurement Practice New Associate

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. It combines unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, offering Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song. Its 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries.

About the Role

You will go beyond processing purchase orders at lower costs to help clients reap savings and value from the billions they spend on the goods and services that run their day-to-day business operations. You will be working as a part of a Procurement management team which uses a systematic approach for buying all the goods and services needed for a company to stay sustainable.

Key Responsibilities

• Identification of need, finding and qualifying suppliers, requesting proposals, negotiating with suppliers, contracting, delivery, and analyzing results.
• Analyze and design the best practices for tactical and transactional procurement processes.
• Plan implementation based on a detailed understanding of technologies involved and best practice process output measures.
• Provide the setup and ongoing maintenance of suppliers, catalog content, user authorization data, and procurement applications to provide efficient and effective transactions, and to help maximize compliance.

What would you do?

• Invoice Matching: Match invoices against purchase orders and goods receipts.
• Data Entry: Enter invoice details into ERP or procurement systems with precision.
• Compliance Checks: Ensure adherence to procurement policies, tax rules, and banking regulations.
• Vendor Communication: Resolve discrepancies with suppliers regarding billing or purchase orders.
• Internal Controls: Apply AP best practices to prevent duplicate or fraudulent payments.
• Procurement Collaboration: Work with procurement and sourcing teams to streamline P2P processes.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Solve routine problems, largely through precedent and referral to general guidelines.
• Your primary interaction is within your own team and your direct supervisor.
• You will be given detailed instructions on all tasks.
• Decisions you make impact your own work and are closely supervised.
• You will be an individual contributor as part of a team with a predetermined, narrow scope of work.
• This role may require working in rotational shifts.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Procurement Operations - Procurement Support

Qualifications

• Any Graduation