Accounts Payable (AP) Process Owner

Your responsibilities

• Strategic Roadmap: Define and execute the global AP vision, including the standard operating model, continuous improvement initiatives, and digital transformation goals.
• Process Governance: Standardizes processes across different business units to eliminate fragmentation: Establish, monitor, and enforce global process standards to eliminate localized practices and ensure operational consistency across all business units & Regions/Countries.
• Strategic Ownership & Performance Management: Defines the global AP strategy and service level agreements (SLAs). Owns global process metrics and business results, including Days Payable Outstanding (DPO), cost per invoice, first-time match rates, and paid-on-time metrics.
• Technology & Transformation: Serve as the business sponsor for large-scale technology deployments and automation projects, including ERP integrations, OCR tools, AI-driven invoice processing, and RPA bots.
• Risk & Compliance: Maintain a robust control environment, ensuring strict adherence to SOX controls, segregation of duties (SoD), internal audits, and local tax requirements (e.g., e-invoicing).
• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate closely with Procurement (Procure-to-Pay alignment), Treasury, IT, and Regional/Country VP FinOps to optimize the cash cycle and resolve cross-functional friction.

Your profile

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field. Professional certifications (CPA, CMA, or PMP) are a plus.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, accounting, or P2P operations, with at least 3+ years leading global process governance or financial transformation within an SSC/GBS environment. Deep understanding of internal control frameworks and cash flow optimization.
• Expertise: Deep knowledge of end-to-end P2P lifecycles, change management frameworks, and financial control environments. Strong background in change management and financial transformation.
• Tools: Proficiency with SAP S/4HANA, enterprise workflow solutions and AI-driven invoice matching.

Your benefits

• A modern office in the 11th district is waiting for you to support your creativity with fun community places, cafe rooms, an own cinema and a skybar
• We support you with flexible working hours and home office opportunity
• Competitive salary and wide range of other benefits (cafeteria & bonus) are provided to you
• You can be part of a successful and growing company in the field of technology
• You can learn new languages in small groups, selecting from 5 languages
• We organize leisure time activities (board games, sport activities)

thyssenkrupp is an international industrial and technology group with around 98,000 employees. In the fiscal year 2023/2024, the company generated sales of €35 billion in 47 countries. Its business activities are bundled in five segments: Automotive Technology, Decarbon Technologies, Materials Services, Steel Europe and Marine Systems. With extensive technology know-how, the businesses develop innovative solutions for the challenges of the future, especially in the fields of climate protection, the energy transition, digital transformation in the industry and mobility of the future.

In the Hungarian development center with our engineering team of 1000 we are present as an innovative and significant partner in one of the fastest growing and most exciting segment of the automotive industry, in the field of electromechanical steering systems. With outstanding quality and high-tech developments we meet the needs of renowned car manufacturers and our developments can be found in 25 % of the manufactured cars all over the world. Our engineers work on new challenges that can change the future of automotive.

Contact

Be part of a more than 20 years old success story that was born in Budapest but got international with thyssenkrupp. We are proud that the dedication of our colleagues and the innovative knowledge made our Budapest development center truly successful.

We have a place for you in our dynamically growing company if you value professional development and would like to be part of a cheerful international environment.

You can work on challenging developments in the automotive industry together with the leading car manufacturers all over the world.

Get to know more about us and bring your unique self to our company!

thyssenkrupp Components Technology Hungary Ltd.

1117. Budapest, Budafoki street 56/C