Job Responsibilities
1. Team Coordination & Procurement Operations
- Executes and oversees the processing and sourcing of purchase requisitions in strict alignment with Procurement policy, sourcing guidelines, and the ICF framework, safeguarding compliance and operational efficiency.
- Leads the processing and execution of indirect materials and services requests within Coupa/SAP PtP systems, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance while embedding best practices across the team.
- Leads daily coordination of sourcing and helpdesk activities, ensuring operational KPIs, productivity, and continuous improvement targets are consistently achieved at the business unit level.
- Drives resolution of invoice mismatches, fostering collaboration with peer departments to eliminate recurring issues and strengthen end-to-end process integrity.
- Monitors blocked invoice trends, leading root cause analysis and initiating cross-functional elimination projects with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Record-to-Report, IT, and other stakeholders.
- Acts as the first line of support for PtP systems inquiries, ensuring timely resolution of ServiceNow tickets and reinforcing system reliability.
- Champions data integrity and system hygiene, maintaining consistency and accuracy across procurement platforms.
- Serves as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) and gatekeeper for stakeholders, safeguarding adherence to procurement processes and policies.
2. Invoice Receipt, Processing & Financial Controls
- Processes invoices (third-party, intercompany, and trade spend claims) in line with corporate policies, guidelines, and SLAs with OpCos.
- Supports daily workload management, handling medium to high complexity tasks across multiple systems.
- Processes and directs daily coordination of invoice processing activities (third-party, intercompany, and trade spend claims), ensuring KPIs, productivity, and continuous improvement targets are achieved at team level.
- Provides leadership in workload management, guiding the team through medium and high complexity invoice processing across multiple systems, while ensuring compliance with corporate policies and SLAs.
- Prioritizes and allocates tasks effectively, enabling the team to deliver within complex operational contexts.
- Ensures documentation standards are upheld in compliance with local legislation and company policies.
- Safeguards execution of tasks within the internal control framework, reinforcing governance and risk management.
- Identifies and addresses process shortcomings, analyzing gaps and driving implementation of improved methods and systems.
- Acts as an authorized system user for PtP platforms (Coupa, Routty, Alusta), ensuring secure and compliant operations within the GBS Centre.
- Leads completion of Month-End Close (MEC) activities, ensuring deadlines are met and financial accuracy is maintained.
- Resolves escalations from suppliers and OpCos, acting as a trusted escalation point and ensuring stakeholder confidence.
- Fosters cross-functional collaboration, engaging with colleagues across GBS, OpCos, and suppliers to strengthen alignment and communication.
- Provides direct guidance and support to the team, enabling scope extension and capability development.
3. Projects & Process Optimization
- Identifies bottlenecks and inefficiencies in processes, develops proposals for improvement, and ensures approved changes are implemented and tracked to completion.
- Acts as a proactive member of the PtP senior community, taking ownership of cross-team issues and driving end-to-end process optimization across functions.
- Champions continuous improvement initiatives, embedding a culture of innovation and accountability within the team.
- Leads and takes ownership of the resolution of internal operational issues, such as RPA incidents.
4. Governance & Stakeholder Management
- Supports structured discussions with internal stakeholders through StP reviews, serving as a second-level escalation point to resolve complex issues.
- Builds and strengthen governance frameworks, ensuring vertical alignment within the team and horizontal collaboration across business units, process owners, and control teams.
- Advocates for transparency and shared accountability, reinforcing trust and partnership across the organization.
- Leads audit readiness and ICF compliance, ensuring robust internal controls, clear accountability, and alignment with organizational standards.
Job Responsibilities
- 4+ years' PtP experience in an international, multicultural environment, supported by a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Finance or a related field.
- Fluent English (written and spoken) with strong stakeholder and people management skills.
- Self-driven with a continuous improvement mindset, ability to lead change, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Adaptable, customer- and service-oriented, results-driven, with strong project management capabilities.
- Excellent prioritization, coordination, delegation, and time management skills, coupled with a hands-on "can-do" attitude.
For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are. We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.
Waarom jij bij ons wilt werken:
Een inspirerend doel
Betere voeding voor de wereld en een goed inkomen voor onze boeren, nu en voor toekomstige generaties.
Een coöperatieve cultuur
Gekenmerkt door wereldwijde samenwerking, respect en gedeeld succes.
Een tastbare impact
Ruimte voor jouw ambitie, met autonomie en een duidelijke focus.
Jouw groei is onze groei
We investeren in jouw persoonlijke en professionele ontwikkeling via trainingen en opleidingen.