Senior Manager, Procure to Pay for Alma Media

About the Role

We are hiring an experienced and strategic Senior Manager, Procure to Pay, to lead and evolve our global Procure to Pay (P2P) process. This role is critical in ensuring efficient, compliant, and timely execution of supplier payments, employee reimbursements, and payroll-related payouts, while designing scalable processes and driving automation.

You will guide the global transition of P2P services into the GFO structure, working across countries and systems, including SAP and Nomentia, and championing process discipline in a rapidly transforming environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end P2P process, including:
  
  - Supplier invoice receipt and processing
  - Basware vendor invoice management process ownership
  - Travel and Expense (T&E) claim process
  - Payroll-related payouts (e.g. taxes, benefits, net salaries) in cooperation with Payroll

• Act as business owner for P2P during the S/4HANA Cloud implementation, including fit-gap analysis, testing, and change adoption.
• Lead the definition and deployment of P2P process standards, controls, and service levels across countries and legacy ERP systems.
• Collaborate with R2R for master data governance and accounting alignment.
• Design and drive T&E policy enforcement, user guidance, and automation improvements.
• Lead a distributed operational team, creating a consistent approach to service delivery and issue resolution.
• Establish and monitor KPIs, SLAs, and internal controls to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities and support implementation of digital solutions.

You will succeed in this role if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in Finance operations, Shared Services, or P2P process leadership.
• Proven success operating in a global matrix organization with multiple countries and systems.
• Hands-on experience with payment platforms (e.g., Nomentia) and SAP, preferably S/4HANA Cloud.
• Strong working knowledge of T&E processes, Vendor invoice management handling.
• Skilled in process standardization, controls implementation, and service level management.
• Able to set priorities, communicate clearly, and guide teams through change and complexity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence cross-functional and cross-country stakeholders.
• Fluent in English; additional languages a plus.

Alma as an employer

At Alma, we foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork, where everyone is accepted as who they are. In our constantly changing business environment, it takes courage to try new things, push boundaries, and drive innovation.

For us, courage is not only big heroic actions, but those small things that occur in our daily work: when you dare to say your opinion, speak a foreign language, try something new, and fail. Joining Alma means becoming part of a friendly, supportive community of professionals, where teamwork and courage will take us to the next level. To create new growth, we need courage.

And courage grows best together.

Our promise to you

Friendly culture where you can be yourself:

• We trust each other and give autonomy

Job with purpose and impact:

• Our brands are well-known and used by millions of people daily, and trusted when making the most important decisions of their lives.

Opportunities for professional learning and growth:

• You are encouraged to take time for learning.
• We value the power of internal collaboration and learning from one another.

Location and how to apply

We work in a multi-location and flexible manner, and in this role you can work from any of our offices located in Finland, Czechia or Croatia.

Got Interested?

Apply and become part of our growth story! Apply for the position by 31.8.2025. We start interviews already during the application period. We will fill the position as soon as a suitable candidate is found.