P2P Finance Specialist

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

P2P Finance Specialist

Location: Amsterdam

Fulltime | Hybrid | 3 days in the office

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.

What does a typical week look like?

Business user support. 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.

Finance and accounting. 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. .

Key responsibilities

Support to scientists and business users

• 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

Finance and accounting responsibilities

• 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 internal control standards
• Support audit requests and provide the supporting documentation required
• Support the Financial Controller with entity-specific finance requests
• Prepare data for CBS Surveys submission

Month-end, year-end and process improvement

• Support month-end and year-end close by monitoring outstanding invoices, unreceived goods or services, blocked invoices, open purchase orders and other Procure-to-Pay items
• Take ownership of the accruals element of close for the area, including the Coupa accruals review with business users
• Contribute ideas for the improvement of Procure-to-Pay and Accounts Payable processes; proposals are welcomed, and it is preferable to raise a process issue than to work around it
• Assume additional responsibilities over time, either for Acerta or by extending established local practices to other entities

What we are looking for

• A bachelor's or master's degree in finance, with a minimum of two years of post-qualification experience
• Practical working experience of SAP — essential
• Practical working experience of Coupa — essential
• A practical understanding of Procure-to-Pay processes and of finance and accounting principles
• Proficiency in MS Excel for day-to-day analysis and tracking
• Fluent English, both verbal and written
• Ownership of the area: follows matters through to conclusion without requiring prompting
• A hands-on approach, personal initiative, and a willingness to learn
• The confidence to engage with a range of teams across a complex organisation in order to obtain answers
• Analytical ability, attention to detail, a solution-driven mindset and focus on delivery

Your effort is rewarded
As a P2P Finance Specialist, you can expect much in return for your dedication. In addition to a competitive salary, you will enjoy:

• An attractive bonus scheme and a 13th-month salary on top of your monthly pay.
• Access to internal training and development programs.
• 27 vacation days, plus additional leave (such as your birthday, Good Friday, and the period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve).
• Flexible and progressive employment benefits allowing you to tailor them to your needs (e.g., a wellness budget and the choice of a holiday calendar based on different religious beliefs).
• A pension plan
• Share plan: Opportunity to participate in our stock program with contributions from AstraZeneca

About AstraZeneca Oncology R&D, Amsterdam  

At AstraZeneca Amsterdam, we bring together two research groups, in haemato-oncology and next-generation cell therapy research. Together, they form our Oncology R&D hub in the Netherlands, working closely with colleagues in the US, Canada, Spain and the UK, to develop innovative treatments for patients with cancer.  

Our haematology R&D group was born as Acerta Pharma, one of the Netherlands’ greatest biotech success stories. Its small-molecule BTK inhibitor has been approved by both the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL). In Amsterdam approximately 100 colleagues continue the development of new therapies for haematological malignancies under the AstraZeneca brand name.  

AstraZeneca’s Cell Therapy R&D team focuses on developing next-generation T-cell receptor (TCR) therapies targeting neoantigens in solid tumors. With a team of around 75 scientists, we work on both fully individualized and shared neo-antigen approaches, with the aim of improving outcomes for patients with cancer.  

Our oncology research and development hub is anchored by our new state-of-the-art laboratories in OneHelix and the adjacent Plus Ultra Amsterdam building, both located on the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (Amsterdam UMC) campus. Our hub is firmly positioned at the heart of the Dutch research community network, creating new opportunities for our people, our science, and the patients we work to transform outcomes for.    

Ready to grow your career in a driven, innovative environment? Apply today!
If you have any questions about this vacancy, our Recruitment Team, Karin Raadschelders / Caroline van Oppen is happy to answer your questions.

Contact: [email protected] or by phone on +31(0)85 - 047 0244.

We don’t work with a fixed closing date; the vacancy will close as soon once we’ve found the right candidates. Feel free to apply right away – we will start the selection process immediately.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.