Purchasing to Pay Business Analyst

Description

Aurizon has an exciting opportunity for a Purchasing to Pay Business Analyst with previous SAP experience to join the team. This role will provide detailed insights and strategic analysis around Procure to Pay process improvement and operational excellence, assisting transformational and process re-engineering activities and support the development of training and handover materials to operationalise solutions and improvements to process and systems.

• Drive cross-functional collaboration across the business units, IT, Finance and wider team, liaising with multilevel stakeholders as a subject matter expert and advisor on P2P transformation strategy.
• Represent the P2P function in change programs, both enterprise-wide projects and small initiatives, including creation of data and process flows, documenting and conducting test cases, tracking task completion, identifying risks and issues, and documenting SOPs for BAU handover.
• Ideate, support and deliver process improvement opportunities and digital efficiencies within the P2P scope, utilising a variety of different automation technologies, analytics dashboards and reporting tools.
• Identify efficiencies and optimisation opportunities within system processes as defined by the core ERP functionality.
• Gather and interpret functional needs of the P2P operations team, translate into end-to-end solutions using appropriate tools, and operationalise with clear documentation, training and handover.
• Support the re-engineering of P2P processes to optimise and standardise through reducing and removing non-standard and exception processes, building capacity and limiting variability.

Requirements

You’re an experienced finance professional with strong stakeholder management skills and a passion for process improvement and problem solving. You’re motivated by the opportunity to shape how an ASX-listed company communicates its progress toward a more sustainable future.

• High level of interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• High level of skill in stakeholder management and mentoring staff, including outsourced partners.
• Experience in developing automated solutions and end-to-end project delivery
• Previous experience in using SAP (mandatory).
• High level of knowledge in best practice accounts payable and transactional procurement.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis or similar (mandatory).
• Experience with Ariba, Concur, and other procurement digital platforms (preferred).
• High level of negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Previous experience in automation technologies including PowerBI / Power Automate / Excel / RPA (mandatory).

Benefits

At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.

At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities.

Remuneration/Benefit: Negotiable

• Access to mentoring and development programs.
• Development and growth opportunities.
• Parental leave program and super booster.
• Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance