Lavu Tech Solutions Hiring! Full Time Senior AP Deployment Specialist in Pulau Pinang - Ricebowl

What You’ll Do:

1. Discovery & Country Requirements

• Participate in country discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and design discussions.

• Demonstrate and explain current-state AP processes, controls, approval of workflows, exception handling, and operational practices.

• Identify country-specific legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, language, and operational requirements.

• Validate that local requirements are correctly understood and documented.

• Assess operational impacts associated with proposed future-state processes.

2. Process Validation & Future-State Readiness

• Review and validate Process Design Documents (PDDs), business requirements, process flows, controls, exception scenarios, and operating procedures.

• Confirm that future-state processes accurately reflect AP operational requirements and business realities.

• Evaluate how future-state processes will be operated, supported, and governed by AP after

deployment.

• Identify operational gaps, support requirements, ownership requirements, and adoption risks. • Validate that future-state solutions are scalable, sustainable, and practical for long-term AP operations.

3. Business Validation & User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Develop end-to-end UAT scenarios and business test scripts based on real AP operational activities, controls, and exception handling requirements.

• Prepare and maintain required business test data.

• Execute UAT and validate solutions against approved business requirements.

• Confirm that business outcomes are achieved, not solely that system functions operate.

• Identify defects, process gaps, usability concerns, operational impacts, and business risks.

• Support defect triage, retesting, and business sign-off activities. SIT ownership: System Integration Testing is performed by the implementation and development teams. The Senior AP Deployment Specialist focuses on business validation and UAT activities.

4. Deployment Readiness & Go-Live Support

• Support deployment planning, readiness assessments, cutover activities, and country go-live preparations.

• Confirm operational readiness across users, controls, work instructions, exception handling procedures, and support processes.

• Coordinate deployment of readiness activities with country AP teams.

• Validate user preparedness and operational readiness before deployment.

• Support business go-live activities and the transition into production operations.

5. Hypercare & Stabilization

• Act as an AP User during go-live and hyper-care activities.

• Support issue identification, investigation, prioritization, escalation, and resolution.

• Monitor user adoption, operational effectiveness, exception trends, and process performance. • Support the transition from project deployment to steady-state AP

ownership and operations. • Validate that AP teams are fully prepared to own and sustain future-state processes.

6. AP Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve process effectiveness, user experience, controls, and operational efficiency.

• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement activities for future deployment waves.

• Promote the adoption of standardized global processes across countries.

• Support AP adoption of intelligent automation and future AI-enabled capabilities.

• Provide operational feedback to guide future solution enhancements and country rollouts.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or related discipline.

• 5-7 years of experience in Accounts Payable, Procure-to-Pay, Shared Services, Finance Operations, or AP transformation initiatives.

• Strong understanding of invoice processing, approvals, exception management, controls, and payment of readiness processes.

• Experience participating in UAT, deployment, go-live, hyper-care, or operational improvement initiatives.

• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work effectively across global teams and multiple countries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.

• Experience supporting ERP, invoice processing, workflow, or automation deployments.

• Exposure to intelligent document processing, workflow automation, RPA, or AI-enabled finance solutions.

• Experience supporting global or multi-country transformation programs.

• Experience in Shared Services or Global Business Services organizations.

Critical Success Factors

• Represent AP operational requirements throughout the deployment lifecycle.

• Bring practical AP operational expertise into process reviews, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities.

• Ensure future-state processes are operationally sustainable and practical for AP teams.

• Identify operational risks, process gaps, control concerns, and adoption challenges early.

• Support successful UAT, deployment of readiness, go-live, hyper-care, and stabilization activities.

• Build credibility with AP users, operational stakeholders, and project teams.

• Drive successful user adoption and transition into steady-state operations.

• Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence following deployment.

What Success Looks Like

• AP operational requirements are accurately represented throughout the deployment lifecycle. • Country-specific business requirements are validated and appropriately incorporated.

• PDDs, requirements, and operational procedures reflect real-world AP operating needs.

• UAT scenarios cover realistic business activities and exception conditions.

• AP users are prepared for deployment, adoption, and future-state operations.

• Future-state processes are operationally sustainable and can be effectively owned and managed by AP teams after project completion.

• Country deployments achieve successful business adoption with minimal disruption.

• Hypercare activities transition smoothly into stable operations and business ownership.