
Purchasing Support Specialist
The Role
The team..
In Group Finance, we support teams across the whole of ITV, helping them build content and products that millions of people interact with every single day. When you join us, you enter a fun working environment with opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.
To improve our support, ITV is restructuring its Third Party Payments team, shifting towards a compliance-focused approach to inspire change, ensure policy adherence, and optimise workflow efficiency making the purchase to pay process flawless.
The role..
The Purchasing Support Specialist assists in ensuring compliant and effective Purchase to Pay and the smooth and efficient operation of requisition to payment activities. This includes helping with purchase order queries, supplier and business communications and data analysis to drive compliance throughout the processes. A key focus will be driving business user compliance against Company Policy through auditing, monitoring and reporting.
This role requires strong analytical and influencing skills with expert knowledge in all
Proficient in ensuring accuracy in Purchase to Pay (PTP) functions. This high-profile role will drive compliance through behavioural change, accurate and quality data and by crafting strong stakeholder relationships using informative data.
Some of your key day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Ensure compliance with company financial policies and procedures through accurate reporting and assessments.
- Generate supplier account reports, supervise overdue claims, and support risk mitigation efforts.
- Assist in the creation and management of purchase orders in line with company guidelines.
Identify and resolve discrepancies between invoices, purchase orders, and receipts in collaboration with relevant teams. - Support the implementation of process improvements and compliance initiatives with internal collaborators.
- Deliver training and guidance on purchasing compliance and policy adherence.
- Maintain and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as required.
- Track team critical metrics and give to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support onboarding and training of new team members and promote knowledge sharing within the team.
- Actively pursue personal development opportunities and chip in to team success.
Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)
- Significant experience within Purchase to Pay from both front end and back end processes
- Must have experience with Accounts Payable
- Can demonstrate a significant understanding of the end to end requisition to pay process
- Can provide evidence of analysing and presenting data across all levels of an organisation
- Has a basic understanding of general ledger / double entry
- Excellent proficiency using Excel / Google sheets
Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)
- Can demonstrate a process improvement mentality
- Experience of working with Finance ERPs (Oracle Fusion an advantage).
- Experience of working in a Shared Services / GBS environment is helpful.
- Has a good understanding of accounting principles.
- Has excellent Requisition to Pay understanding.
- Can demonstrate resilience and the ability to adapt as required.
- Attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
- Ability to navigate sophisticated processes and provide recommendations.
- Risk and fraud awareness.
- Strong organisational and time management abilities.
- Adaptability and ability to stay updated on process and business changes.
- Ability to handle inquiries and resolve disputes authoritatively.
Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.

ITV is for everyone.
We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including People of Colour and Deaf, Disabled, and Neurodivergent people.
ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).
We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.
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*There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications

Your impact sends ripples
ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:
- Flexible working with a range of options
- Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Competitive pension contribution
- Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
- Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
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