P2P Finance Specialist

Own the numbers. Support the people who make the science happen.

In this role you will join our Group Financial Reporting team, which provides controllership activities to legal entities across the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom. We're standardising how we support those entities — same processes, same reporting, done well — with collaboration and continuous improvement at the centre of it. The team is based in Poland; this role focuses on the Dutch entity and you will be based in Amsterdam.

Acerta Pharma, part of the AstraZeneca Group, is planning to relocate its offices from Oss to Amsterdam in early 2027. Until the relocation, you will work from our current Oss office one day per week, with the remaining office‑based days in Amsterdam. Once the relocation is complete, your office‑based work will be fully based in Amsterdam.

This is a hands‑on position with defined responsibility rather than a strategic or oversight role. It offers a structured environment, close collaboration with an established team, and a clear route to broader responsibility over time.

Approximately half of the role is spent working directly with our scientists and other business users, supporting transactional activity across the Procure-to-Pay cycle. This includes reviewing purchase requisitions, preparing and creating purchase orders in Coupa, monitoring approval workflows, and confirming that goods and services have been received and recorded correctly.

The remaining half is the finance work behind the transaction: reviewing accounting information in SAP for procurement and invoice transactions, resolving matching exceptions, and ensuring that transactions are correctly coded, posted and controlled.

You hold day‑to‑day ownership of your area. Purchasing, invoicing, accounting and supplier‑related processes must be completed accurately, efficiently and in accordance with company policy and financial controls. Certain elements of the global process are managed by colleagues elsewhere in the organisation, and the role is not therefore a fully end‑to‑end process. .

• Act as the first point of contact for business users across the full Procure-to-Pay cycle, from initial enquiry through to settled invoice
• Review purchase requisitions and support the preparation and creation of purchase orders in Coupa
• Monitor approval workflows and follow up on items that are delayed
• Verify goods and service receipts and ensure they are recorded accurately
• Support business users through the Coupa accruals review, so that month‑end positions are understood by those who own the spend
• Respond to supplier and user enquiries and pursue them through to resolution
• Deliver Procure-to-Pay process training for business users, reducing the recurrence of routine queries

• Review accounting information in SAP relating to procurement and invoice transactions, and work with finance colleagues to correct coding and posting errors
• Investigate and resolve exceptions, including two‑way matching issues, price discrepancies, quantity differences, missing receipts, incorrect purchase orders, duplicate invoices, tax matters and incomplete accounting information
• Maintain the accuracy and integrity of vendor master data in both SAP and Coupa, so that the process operates correctly from the outset
• Monitor and track purchases across the company
• Ensure transactions comply with company policy, accounting principles, approval requirements, segregation‑of‑duties principles, tax requirements and applicable…