PTP Invoicing Lead

MW Partners is currently seeking a PTP Invoice Lead to work for our client who is a global leader in the media and entertainment industry.


Responsibilities and duties:


Executive Leadership & Organizational Alignment

• Provide executive oversight of the global invoicing function, ensuring operational continuity, team alignment, and performance accountability across all geographies and business units
• Manage executive-level relationships with PTP leadership, Finance, Technology, Procurement, and business unit stakeholders throughout the stabilization and hypercare period
• Collaborate cross-functionally, working in close partnership with Stakeholder Services to ensure aligned issue resolution, escalation handling, and a consistent experience for internal and supplier stakeholders
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex invoicing issues, driving rapid resolution and communicating clearly with leadership on status and impact
• Establish clear organizational goals, performance expectations, and accountability frameworks aligned to Oracle Fusion go-live milestones and stabilization targets
• Oversee change-management strategy and organizational-readiness planning to ensure a seamless transition from project to steady-state operations

• Oversee end-to-end invoice processing across multiple ERP platforms (including legacy and Oracle Fusion) during active migration, ensuring continuity, accuracy, and SLA adherence throughout the transition
• Manage OCR/invoice imaging workflows, ensuring high capture accuracy, exception handling, and timely routing of invoices through appropriate approval and payment channels
• Govern invoice hold queue management - identifying root causes, driving resolution, and implementing controls to reduce hold volumes and aging
• Establish and enforce invoice processing standards, coding rules, approval hierarchies, and escalation protocols across all business units and geographies
• Partner with Procurement, Legal, Finance, Technology and business stakeholders to resolve invoice discrepancies, pricing mismatches, and PO exceptions

• Collaborate with ERP Project Leads, serving as the senior invoicing subject matter expert - representing global invoicing requirements in design sessions, data mapping, integration testing, and go-live readiness activities
• Lead invoicing hypercare activities post go-live, including monitoring error queues, exception resolution, issue triage, and escalation management
• Lead governance over the invoicing hypercare program, including the issue-prioritization framework, escalation protocols, and go/no-go decisions for process handoffs
• Oversee data integrations between legacy ERPs, Oracle Fusion, and upstream/downstream systems (procurement tools, imaging platforms, payment engines)
• Identify and escalate integration gaps or data quality issues impacting invoice flow, matching, or approval routing, and partner with Technology to drive resolution
• Lead invoicing stabilization through sustained operational excellence, ensuring the organization reaches steady-state performance on Oracle Fusion
• Champion the use of Supplier Onboarding tools/platform to advance supplier enablement, invoicing automation, and analytics capabilities (preferred)

• Own the aged invoice remediation program - establishing a structured process for prioritizing, assigning, and resolving aged and stalled invoices across all ERPs
• Conduct root cause analysis on aged invoice trends, identifying systemic process, data, or configuration issues driving backlog accumulation
• Track and report on aged invoice reduction progress against defined targets, escalating blockers and driving cross-functional resolution

• Define and monitor key invoicing KPIs and SLAs including invoice cycle time, first-pass match rate, hold queue volumes, aged invoice aging buckets, and exception rates
• Design and deliver executive-level dashboards and reporting providing real-time visibility into invoice status, bottlenecks, and compliance metrics across all business units
• Produce regular reporting for senior leadership on invoicing health, Oracle Fusion implementation impact, and stabilization progress
• Leverage data insights to identify trends, prioritize remediation efforts, and drive continuous improvement
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives post-stabilization to maximize ROI from the Oracle Fusion investment and optimize end-to-end invoicing performance

• Lead, mentor, and manage a large, globally distributed invoicing team across multiple locations including Budapest and Nashville
• Drive team engagement and knowledge transfer to ensure operational continuity and process consistency across geographies
• Develop and maintain SOPs, training materials, and process documentation for invoicing operations, keeping them current with system and policy changes

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field
• 12+ years of progressive AP/PTP experience with a focus on invoicing operations, with at least 5 years in a VP or equivalent C-suite-adjacent leadership role
• Hands-on Oracle Fusion AP module expertise, including experience leading or supporting Oracle Fusion go-live and hypercare from an invoicing operations perspective
• Demonstrated experience managing invoice processing across multiple ERP platforms simultaneously during an active ERP migration
• Deep expertise in OCR/invoice imaging platforms and exception handling workflows
• Strong command of invoice hold queue management, root cause analysis, and process remediation
• Deep expertise in program governance, risk management, and hypercare operational frameworks
• Proven ability to manage executive-level relationships and lead large, globally distributed teams across multiple time zones in a complex global organization
• Proven ability to build and deliver executive reporting, dashboards, and KPI frameworks
• Excellent cross-functional stakeholder management and communication skills