Lead I - Procurement

Role Description

14774 - SAP Global COUPA Functional Lead-Bengaluru-6 - 8 Years

Job Code

14774

Locations

Bengaluru

Minimum Experience

6

Maximum Experience

8

Mandatory Skills

Coupa, Functional Consultant, Procurement, Invoicing, Supply Chain Management, Spend Management, Payment Processing, SAP S/4Hana

Skill to Evaluate

Coupa, Functional Consultant, Procurement, Invoicing, Supply Chain Management, Spend Management, Payment Processing, SAP S/4Hana

Experience

6 to 8 Years

Location

Bengaluru

Job Description

[Job Title]

SAP Global COUPA Functional Lead

Bangalore

• Hybrid/WFH/In-office
  
  

Hybrid

• Education level.
  
  

Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

• Experience.
• SAP Global COUPA Functional Lead - 8yrs
  
  

SAP Global COUPA Functional Lead - 8 yrs

Coupa Software is a cloud-based platform for Business Spend Management (BSM), designed to help companies manage and optimize their spending, procurement, and supply chain processes. It provides a suite of tools for managing expenses, invoicing, and payments, aiming to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure compliance.

• Procurement: Streamlining the procurement process, from requisition to order, with automation and real-time visibility.
• Invoicing and Payments: Automating invoice processing and payments, improving efficiency and accuracy.
• Expense Management: Tracking and managing employee expenses, ensuring compliance and providing insights into spending.
• Supply Chain Management: Optimizing supply chains, improving visibility, and mitigating risks.
• Sourcing Optimization: Utilizing data-driven insights to optimize sourcing strategies for cost savings and efficiency.
  
  

Coupa excels in AI-driven spend analytics, fast deployment, and streamlined expense/payment management, but offers limited customization. Integration-wise, Coupa supports 35+ ERP systems;

Core Skills For a Coupa Functional Lead

• Deep Coupa Platform Knowledge:
  
  

A thorough understanding of the Coupa platform, its various modules (e.g., procurement, sourcing, invoice management), and their functionalities is crucial.

• Business Process Expertise:
  
  

A strong grasp of procurement, finance, and other relevant business processes is essential for translating business requirements into Coupa configurations.

• Configuration and Administration:
  
  

Proficiency in configuring and administering the Coupa system, including setting up workflows, approval processes, and user roles, is a key requirement.

• Integration Knowledge:
  
  

Understanding how Coupa integrates with other systems, especially ERP systems like SAP or D365, is often necessary for a functional lead.

• Reporting and Analytics:
  
  

The ability to leverage Coupa's reporting and analytics tools to identify areas for improvement and optimize processes is important.

• Communication and Collaboration:
  
  

Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills are vital for collaborating with various stakeholders, including business users, IT teams, and vendors.

Programming Knowledge Python(Beneficial)

• Collaborate with stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams, to support data-driven decision-making.
• Automate and streamline data ingestion, transformation, and analytics processes to enhance efficiency.
• Develop real-time and batch data processing solutions, integrating structured and unstructured data sources.
  
  

What Will You Bring To Coupa

• Expertise in processing and analyzing large data workloads
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable Data Warehouse solutions to support analytical and reporting needs.
• Experience with API development and design with REST or GraphQL. Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
  
  

Role Overview

Services department implements, enhances and supports products and services that underpin PlayStation s business operations. COUPA is a strategic solution in this space, and the platform currently comprises SAP S/4HANA, BW, IBP and COUPA. We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Global COUPA Technical/Functional Lead to drive, manage and support the delivery of technical solutions to ensure that the platform continues to meet the needs of SONY globally.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades released by COUPA for the most advanced capabilities of the COUPA Platform.
• Build solid expertise of the entire COUPA application suite and leverage this knowledge to better design application and data frameworks for SONY.
• Adhere to COUPA iterative development processes to deliver concrete value each release while driving longer-term technical vision.
• Act as the sounding board for architecture standards and patterns, with a demonstrated passion for advocating their accurate usage and excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Participate in defect analysis for maintenance releases to ensure robust functional resolution to customer-facing issues.
• Own the prioritization, management, and reporting of progress against identified Finance initiatives.
• Work closely with the SAP and MuleSoft team to define requirements for E2E flow.
• Validate the approach for delivery of system changes to ensure accurate testing and documentation is completed.
• Contribute to interface design and coordinate and assist with integration testing as required.
• As required, work closely with internal and third-party technical teams to analyse, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues across the SAP platform.
  
  

What We Are Looking For

we are seeking individuals to join us who are enthusiastic, innovative, and have a collaborative approach.

These values and behaviors are evident throughout your previous experience:

• Proven hands-on experience of COUPA configurations and administration, with a skilled understanding of underlying SAP financial table structures and data elements.
• Working successfully across the full lifecycle of technology-enabled change: from requirements definition through solution design, build, testing to transition to live operation.
  
  

Sound Understanding Of The Following Areas

• COUPA and COUPA marketplace products
• SAP S4/HANA
• Analytics and Reporting through SAP/COUPA platforms
• Purchasing and their key integration points with Finance functional areas
• Working effectively with offshore/near shore service providers.
• Collaborating with a diverse range of collaborators and audiences within a matrix organization.
• Skilled at influencing and negotiation, at ease interacting with senior collaborators and open to questioning them with logical arguments.
• Excellent written, verbal, social, and decision-making skills.
• Self-motivated, highly organized, working well under pressure, remaining focused and calm in the face of distractions and changing priorities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
  

Education Qualificaiton

Computer Graduate

Job Title

SAP Global COUPA Functional Lead

Shift Timings

13:30-22:30 IST

Skills

coupa,invoice processing,procurement,supply chain management,spend analysis,payment processing,