Procurement Specialist, Post Payment Vendor Audit & Recoveries

EXL

Procurement specialist with expertise in post-payment vendor audits and recoveries at EXL. Collaborating across teams in Procurement, Finance, and Legal to ensure compliance with contract terms.

Posted 5/21/2026full-time🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $127,000 - $145,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with client Procurement, AP, Finance, and Legal to validate contract-to-PO and invoice compliance versus pricing, rebates/discounts, and SLA terms.
Identify value leakage and overbilling patterns (rate/UOM errors, missed discounts, unauthorized changes, non-compliant billing, missed SLA credits).
Mentor Managers and Analysts and build playbooks for compliance, recovery, and governance.
Validate system-identified exceptions; recommend escalation paths and recovery actions.
Quantify opportunities, track recoveries to closure, document root causes and corrective actions, monitor and report leakage trends
Translate contract structures, pricing, and SLAs into clear, testable business rules; communicate findings to executive stakeholders.
Aligning findings with governance, controls, and documentation standards in partnership with Finance and Legal.
Help with the continuous improvement of EXL product.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7–12+ years in procurement/sourcing, commercial operations, or supplier management.
Exposure to large/complex enterprise environments (CPG/manufacturing/regulated industries a plus).
Working knowledge of contracts and commercial terms (MSA/SOW, pricing, rebates/discounts), contract-to-PO alignment, invoice/AP validation, and SLA credits/penalties.
Consulting and/or transformation program experience within complex, large enterprises
Post-payment audits, spend compliance, and/or value recovery experience.
Familiarity with CLM and/or compliance platforms.

Benefits

Comp & perks

EXL never requires or asks for fees/payments or credit card or bank details during any phase of the recruitment or hiring process and has not authorized any agencies or partners to collect any fee or payment from prospective candidates.
EXL will only extend a job offer after a candidate has gone through a formal interview process with members of EXL’s Human Resources team, as well as our hiring managers.

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Hard Skills & Tools

contract-to-PO validationinvoice compliancepricing analysisrebates analysisSLA termsvalue recoverypost-payment auditsspend compliancebusiness rules translationroot cause analysis

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingcontinuous improvementcollaborationleadershipdocumentationgovernance