Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
What you'll do
As we expand our business and operation crossing the world, we need to make sure that our procurement functionality, policy and process is built with the highest standard compared with industry best practice. Therefore, you will help Airwallex to establish the Procurement function which best fits our business model and future scalability.
In this role you will be responsible for defining and ensuring the execution of the procurement strategy, policies, and processes. You will act as the main point of contact for all matters relating to spend. You will support the business (ie: Product and Engineering) in large procurement projects, develop procurement strategies and set up centralized procure to pay processes supported by a service team.
Responsibilities
Develop policies and detailed processes for our centralized procure to pay process
Create and manage direct relationships with finance and other functional departments, such as engineering and product team to ensure smooth procurement operations
Manage shared service resources to handle vendor management, PR creation, supplier engagement and ensure compliance to our procurement policy
Continuously explore efficiencies in technology solutions for procurement, including the adoption of new procurement tooling.
Collaborate with the FP&A team on continuous spend insights driven by the procurement process.
Establish KPI reporting for the procurement ops team to measure success, efficiency and identify opportunities for further improvement
Who you are
8+ years of procurement and/or partnerships experience (RFP processes, cost negotiations, vendor analysis, etc.)
Experience with building efficient centralised procure to pay processes
Experience working with IT, Product or Engineering procurement
Ability to ramp a new function and establish an operating model
Ability to drive and implement change in a global organisation
Curiosity for learning about technical products
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Direct experience implementing new systems
Experience in evaluating metrics and making data-driven decisions
A can-do attitude and ability to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously
A proven track record for working well across teams and with external partners
Ability to bring a process-oriented mindset to execute on deliverables
Prior experience in the payment cards industry or financial services is a plus
Prior experience working in fast-growing Procurement organisations
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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