Procure-to-Pay and Business Partner Manager

The PtP and Business Partner Manager role at Sony Europe BV offers an outstanding opportunity to lead world-class Procure-to-Pay operations across Europe. This position is perfect for an ambitious individual looking to successfully implement process improvements and drive outstanding financial performance. Join us in our mission to deliver flawless services and collaborate with top-tier professionals!

You will:

• Be responsible for leading Procure-to-Pay (PtP) operations, ensuring efficient, compliant, and accurate processing of invoices and payment activities. The role acts as a key finance business partner to internal collaborators. It drives process improvements, strengthens controls, and supports business performance through effective financial and operational management across Europe.
• Coordinate end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes, including vendor onboarding, purchase orders, invoice processing, payment execution, and supplier account reconciliation.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, internal controls, accounting standards, and statutory requirements.
• Manage relationships with business collaborators and provide finance support and mentorship on purchasing, payment, and operational matters.
• Manage, monitor and improve PtP service delivery benchmarks, and process efficiency through continuous improvement initiatives and automation.
• Lead resolution of complex invoice, supplier, and payment issues, advancing risks where appropriate.
• Manage BPO / Outsourced provider for quality and efficiency, monitor their performance via monthly SLA reviews driving continuous improvement and accountability.
• Lead and manage PtP transformation projects, taking end-to-end ownership from development through implementation.

You will bring:

• Minimum 5 years' relevant PtP experience, including at least 3 years in a management or operational leadership role.
• Proven experience leading a high-volume PtP function within a large, complex, multinational organization.
• Solid hands-on experience with the complete PtP lifecycle, covering supplier master data, purchase orders, invoice handling, approval processes and controls, statement reconciliations, payment runs, and resolving issues.
• Experience managing outsourced/BPO operations including setting and monitoring of service level agreements and performance metrics.
• Strong knowledge of financial controls, compliance and accounting requirements.
• Demonstrable experience of process improvement, standardisation and automation evidencing improved efficiency, controls and service quality in PtP operations.
• Strong collaborator and business partnering capability. A boundary spanner across finance, procurement, treasury and other business functions.
• Experience with SAP ERP environment.
• Strong analytical and communication skills. Highly dedicated and proactive individual, able to work independently, take ownership of issues and drive activities through to completion with limited supervision.

Your new office

Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista-style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack, and a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between the train station and the office at peak times.

Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We celebrate colleagues who make a real difference through our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing, listen to our people through conversations and surveys, and offer volunteering days so staff can support causes they care about.

You can build your career around you with our learning and personal development programmes, and explore opportunities in a wide range of countries with support from our mobility team.

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives who stimulate innovation and contribute to Sony’s purpose: “to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”. Bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, The Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.

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