Application Manager – Global E-Invoicing (maternity cover 1yr)

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The Application Manager – Global E-Invoicing is responsible for the end-to-end management, governance, continuous improvement, and strategic evolution of Hitachi Energy's global e-Invoicing landscape. The role ensures stable operations of existing e-Invoicing services while driving the next phase of digital transformation, regulatory compliance, monitoring, onboarding expansion, and automation initiatives across all regions. The role acts as the primary interface between business stakeholders, Tax, Finance, SAP CoE, Integration teams, and strategic providers such as Pagero and GoSocket.

• Own the application lifecycle, strategy, roadmap, and operational support for Global e-Invoicing solutions.
• Ensure stable and compliant operation of outbound and inbound e-Invoicing processes across multiple countries.
• Lead supplier and vendor management activities, including service reviews, escalations, SLA monitoring, and contract governance.
• Support and coordinate global country onboarding projects, including requirements gathering, testing, deployment, hypercare, and transition to support.
• Manage incidents, problems, changes, releases, and service improvements in accordance with ITIL practices.
• Monitor application performance, transaction flows, interfaces, and operational KPIs.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, audit, internal controls (ICOFR), and regulatory requirements.
• Manage application budgets, forecasts, and vendor-related costs.
• Support the evolution of the global e-Invoicing strategy, including new regulatory mandates, digital tax initiatives, and future platform enhancements.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Technology, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in Application Management, IT Service Management, or Enterprise Application Support.
• Strong understanding of SAP Finance processes (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Record-to-Report).
• Experience with e-Invoicing, EDI, Peppol, B2B integrations, or digital document exchange platforms.
• Experience with incident, problem, change, release, and configuration management.
• Preferred, S 4HANA experience, ITIL certification, global e-invoicing

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We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us, in work and out.

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