Procurement Operations Business Partner, Technology

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We are hiring a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own that path for our technology spend: business applications, SaaS tools, cloud and infrastructure services, and the engineering and developer tools our teams build with. This portfolio is software heavy: new tools evaluated and onboarded regularly, licenses that renew on their own schedule, and vendors billed on seats, usage, or tiered subscription terms rather than a single invoice. You will be the person who makes buying software feel simple to the teams who depend on it and reliable to the Finance stakeholders behind it. This is a high-volume role with an accounting core. You ensure every software purchase in your portfolio is coded, dated, received, and accrued correctly, so spend is right in the books every month. Expect a steady queue of new tool requests, renewals, and license changes, and expect to be the person Accounting trusts on all of it.

What it asks for · 4

• Proven track record of owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio end-to-end in a procure-to-pay and intake platform.
• Solid working knowledge of accrual accounting as it applies to purchasing: accruals and reversals, service period and cutoff, prepaid versus expense, and GL and cost center coding. You can explain how a purchase order becomes an entry in the general ledger.
• Experience buying and managing software or SaaS at scale, including seat-based, usage-based, and tiered subscription billing models.
• Experience owning the tool and vendor lifecycle end to end, from intake through security review, contracting, renewal, and sunset, with the judgment to know when to push a request through and when to slow it down.

Also a plus

• 7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations, including time supporting IT, engineering, or business systems teams.
• Background in accounting, accounts payable, or a month-end close process.
• Direct experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad.
• Prior ownership of month-end accrual review or open PO reconciliation for a large, variable spend portfolio.
• Experience with software asset management or license optimization, including identifying underused or redundant tools.
• Experience designing tiered intake or approval frameworks that sped up low risk purchases without weakening controls.

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Words the posting leans on

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• renewal15×
• review15×
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• vendor15×
• request13×
• accounting12×
• every12×
• tools12×
• purchase order11×
• experience10×
• purchasing10×
• intake9×
• security9×
• account8×

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