Global Process Owner, Accounts Payable & Travel Expense

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives. This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston or Glasgow office locations and should expect to be in the office 2 days per week. Sonos Global Business Services seeks a Global Process Owner to lead standardized, scalable, and well-controlled Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Travel partner with Finance to manage open, over-received, and stale POs. Support supplier onboarding and master-data standards, including banking, tax documentation, duplicate prevention, risk screening, and lifecycle controls. Support supplier enablement through e-invoicing, portals, electronic payments, and self-service. Transform Accounts Payable and Payment Processes Own global AP from invoice capture through matching, coding, approval, accounting, and payment. Increase touchless processing and first-time-match rates reducing cycle times and cost per invoice. Establish exception management that eliminates recurring root causes. Own supplier-payment process design, controls, and performance. Support working capital through payment-term governance, DPO performance, avoidance of unnecessary early payments, and discount capture. Own supplier-service standards for inquiries, disputes, statement reconciliation, service levels, and escalations. Own Controls, Compliance, and Financial Close Own an effective, documented, and audit-ready control framework. Partner with Corporate Accounting, Internal Audit, and external auditors on SOX and financial controls. Maintain fraud-prevention and access controls across supplier data, invoices, payments, expenses, and card administration. Embed approval authority, segregation of duties, and delegation of authority in processes and systems. Partner with Compliance on VAT, withholding, statutory supplier reporting, e-invoicing mandates, and other tax and regulatory requirements. Ensure timely, accurate month-end AP and card clearing, aging review, and subledger-to-GL reconciliation. Partner with Indirect Procurement Establish joint source-to-pay governance with shared priorities, roadmaps, metrics, and escalation paths. Embed negotiated suppliers, pricing, terms, and contracts in purchasing channels and supplier data to realize negotiated value. Provide spend, compliance, and supplier-performance insights for category strategy, sourcing, renewals, and supplier reviews. Measure preferred-supplier adoption, contract compliance, off-contract spend, leakage, and realized versus negotiated value. Improve handoffs across sourcing, contracting, onboarding, purchasing, receiving, invoicing, and payment. Own Travel SAP S/4HANA strongly preferred. Proven success simplifying, standardizing, and automating operational processes. Strong analytical, influencing, and change-management skills; ability to drive cross-functional outcomes without direct authority. Ability to turn complex operational issues into clear priorities, decisions, and measurable outcomes. Self-starter with integrity, intellectual curiosity, and a continuous-improvement mindset. Preferred Qualifications Global Process Owner or global process leadership experience in GBS or shared services. Experience managing outsourced, offshore, or global transactional services. Experience with SAP procurement and AP technologies and workflows, such as OpenText, VIM, Ariba, or equivalent. Experience with corporate T