Coupa Product Analyst

Product Analyst

As a successful Product Analyst, you'll have the following analytical and/or technical skills:

• Thorough understanding of Coupa's tools, including sourcing, procure-to-pay and eInvoicing modules and the business processes that utilize them
• Hands-on configuration and support experience of Coupa
• Creation of sourcing forms, objects, procurement/invoicing approval chains, dynamic account validation rules, charts of accounts, business account security groups, and technical/business roles in Coupa
• Experience working with Agile methodology, including creating stories, working in a Kanban environment, participating in scrums and other Agile ceremonies
• Consultancy approach to your work: having the ability to take complex real-world problems, understand and communicate them and translate them into feasible solutions
• Ability to successfully elicit from appropriate business partners all forms of requirements (e.g. functional, performance, usability, compliance, regulatory, technical)
• Experience working with business partners from different geographies outside of North America (Europe, China, Asia Pacific) to incorporate their short and long-term sourcing, procurement and invoicing requirements, statutory regulations, and controls into viable solutions
• Commitment to collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Experience working with various integration partners and 3rd party consultants to integrate business requirements into implemented technical solution
• Experience creating functional specs, Source-to-Target Maps, batch and configuration documents for integration partners for development of data links between systems
• Knowledge of SDLC framework to implement tool for initial go live, operational changes, break fixes, and maintenance releases
• Experience in troubleshooting Coupa and processing concerns from the business and suppliers
• Ability to provide knowledge and expertise to production support teams to allow for the operational support of the eProcurement and eInvoicing tools
• Experience in analyzing potential gaps in business processes for the designing, solutioning, implementing, planning and integration tests, training and performing post Go-Live support
• Knowledge and understanding of Travel & Expense and Vendor Management areas a plus

You'll work on defining user stories, implementing the user stories through configuration and integration and supporting the Finance & Procurement Solutions Delivery Portfolio of Solutions. You will collaborate with Product Manager, Product Owner and your peer Product Analysts, Application Engineers and Business partners to deliver technical solutions. You'll be a key contributor in all aspects of development and support, and involvement in all phases of the software development lifecycle.

You'll work in a team environment but will also need facilitation skills and the ability to lead project team meetings as needed. It is important in this role to be able to create new ideas, generate consensus, and work cooperatively.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and Post Graduate/MBA with knowledge of Finance and other relevant area or equivalent experience
• 5 years' experience in a Product Analyst or similar role
• Prior experience in supporting and developing using SAP AR/AP, Coupa Sourcing, Procurement and Invoicing.
• Extensive experience and knowledge implementing global solutions in a multi tenant cloud environment using project lifecycle processes, including design, testing, implementation and post go live support.
• Success in designing and leading requirements discovery sessions; including use of interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, business process modeling and workflow analysis with local and non-local team members.