IT - Paying Specialist

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Job overview and responsibilities

Join us at Syensqo, where our IT team is gearing up to enhance its capabilities. We play a crucial role in the group's transformation—accelerating growth, reshaping progress, and creating sustainable shared value. The IT team is making operational adjustments to supercharge value across the entire organization.

Here at Syensqo, we're one strong team! Our commitment to accountability drives us as we work hard to deliver value for our customers and stakeholders. In our dynamic and collaborative work environment, we add a touch of enjoyment while staying true to our motto: reinvent progress.

Come be part of our transformation journey and contribute to the change as a future team member.

The Paying Specialist plays a crucial role in enhancing our procurement processes through the strategic use of technology. This individual is responsible for overseeing and optimizing the solutions supporting the Paying processes, such as SAP FI-AP, SAP Ariba Commerce Automation, Readsoft.  It is also a key player in the shaping of Syensqo’s future IT landscape.

We seek a tech-savvy professional with a robust understanding of these platforms, passionate about leveraging technology to streamline procurement processes. If you are driven to apply your strong IT background to solve procurement challenges, we invite you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess and decide on change requests for our IT procurement systems, ensuring they align with our IT strategy, business goals, and budget constraints. Secure the proper implementation of approved changes.
• Partner with the procurement team to understand their needs, define system requirements, and deploy IT solutions that enhance their processes. Lead projects from conceptualization to execution.
• Provide expertise and guidance to the ERP Rebuild project, ensuring that the systems delivered meet both functional and non-functional requirements, and are seamlessly integrated into procurement’s daily operations.
• Oversee user requests and issues, ensuring efficient resolution by our IT support teams. Keep a close watch on the performance of the applications supporting the Paying processes; manage escalations and liaise with IT vendors to troubleshoot and resolve issues, ensuring uninterrupted procurement operations.
• Ensure all activities adhere to Syensqo IT policies and standards, with emphasis on Cybersecurity compliance and exhaustive documentation.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in IT procurement jobs; experience in the procurement function will also be considered.
• Demonstrable experience supporting SAP FI-AP is essential. Knowledge of SAP Ariba Commerce Automation and Invoice Processing tools (ie Readsoft) is desirable; experience in S4 Hana is a plus.
• Experience in leading IT projects.

Skills and behavioral competencies

• Deep understanding of procurement processes and the role of technology in enhancing these processes.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities, with a focus on aligning technical solutions to business objectives.
• Results-oriented mindset with strong influencing skills, capable of working both independently and as part of a team, in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, effective in interactions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Can do & Be kind attitude.

Language skills

English mandatory

What’s in it for the candidate

• Be part of and contribute to a once-in-a-lifetime change journey 
• Join a dynamic team that is going to tackle big bets
• Have fun and work at a high pace

Additional information

Open to candidates not based in the EMEA region, provided they can work within the European time zone for approximately 5 hours per day.

About us

• Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way we live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, we bring great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of our customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates. Our solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and health care applications. Our innovation power enables us to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity.
• At Syensqo, we seek to promote unity and not uniformity. We value the diversity that individuals bring and we invite you to consider a future with us, regardless of background, age, gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability or identity. We encourage individuals who may require any assistance or accommodations to let us know to ensure a seamless application experience. We are here to support you throughout the application journey and want to ensure all candidates are treated equally. If you are unsure whether you meet all the criteria or qualifications listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.