Innovate and shape what comes next.
At AIA, your expertise, perspective and ideas can help us become a faster, simpler and more connected organisation while contributing to our Purpose of helping millions of people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. Across our diverse markets, you will take on real-world challenges, collaborate with talented colleagues and turn technology, data and bold ideas into simpler experiences, smarter solutions and positive outcomes for our customers and communities.
Join us to create what comes next, grow through new experiences and extend your impact across Asia.
About the Role
Act as the functional Architect for Source-to-Pay, with primary focus on sourcing, procurement, supplier management, purchase orders, goods and service receipt, invoice processing, accounts payable integration and payment-related processes. The role provides deep functional/technical expertise to translate business requirements into fit-for-purpose and integrated procurement solutions, while protecting AIA’s operational, control and cost interests.
Roles & Responsbilities
- Work with internal support teams and business stakeholders to review and understand current Procure-to-Pay processes, system functionality, configuration, master data, transaction flows, controls, pain points and system constraints.
- Assess existing procurement and accounts payable custom programs, enhancements, reports, workflows, interfaces and forms, and determine their business purpose, dependencies and continued relevance in future state.
- Lead and participate in business requirement and fit-to-standard workshops covering supplier onboarding, sourcing and purchasing, purchase orders, goods and service receipt, invoice processing, matching, exceptions, approvals and payment integration.
- Review and validate process designs, solution blueprints, configuration documents and functional specifications to ensure completeness, traceability and alignment with AIA requirements, policies and controls.
- Evaluate end-to-end integration impacts across Accounts Payable, Payments or other procurement platforms, supplier master solutions, tax, banking and upstream or downstream systems.
- Provide functional oversight of supplier, purchasing and open-transaction data migration by validating data scope, mapping, cleansing, reconciliation and business acceptance controls.
- Oversee functional testing including reviewing unit-test results and supporting integration, user acceptance and regression testing across standard, exception and control scenarios.
- Act as the primary functional bridge among Business teams, Procurement, Finance, business units and internal support teams; independently challenge recommendations and escalate material risks, issues and design deviations.
- Plan, coordinate and verify knowledge transfer to internal support teams, ensuring that configuration records, process documentation, operating procedures and support materials are complete and fit for ongoing operations.
- Provide functional leadership for cutover, business readiness, end-user training, go-live, hypercare and transition to business-as-usual support, with clear ownership of outstanding issues and workarounds.
Minimum Job Requirement
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of financial system functional experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on experience across Source-to-Pay processes
- Hands-on experience in at least one end-to-end migration or transformation covering current-state assessment, fit-to-standard design, configuration, data migration, testing, cutover, go-live and hypercare.
- Strong functional knowledge of supplier master data, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods and service receipt, invoice verification, three-way matching, exception handling, approvals and payment integration.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA procurement is preferable · Proven ability to review deliverables, including solution blueprints, configuration documents, functional specifications, test evidence, migration outputs and support handover materials.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into solutions and work effectively with Sourcing, Procurement, Finance, business units, internal support teams, consulting and product vendors across multiple markets.
Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.
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