Coupa Administrator

Job Title: Senior Coupa Administrator

Location
:
Remote

Rate: $55-60/hour on w2

JC: Will be shared in some time

This is pretty Urgent and Critical Requirement

Position Summary

We are seeking a Coupa Administrator to serve as the technical owner and control steward of our Source-to-Pay (S2P) platform.

This role is accountable for how Coupa is configured, governed, and operated
, while working in close partnership with our Finance and Supply Chain Technology Managers and SAP functional leads
, who own business process design and outcomes.

This role sits within a triad model
:

Owns system configuration, controls, and platform integrity

Owns financial process design, policy, and outcomes

Owns procurement and operational process design

Supported by:

SAP Functional Leads (RTR, PTP, etc.)

Integration / Data teams

Serve as the system owner for Coupa

Design and configure:

• Approval workflows and delegation logic
• Spend controls and policy enforcement
• Supplier structures and onboarding frameworks

Ensure configurations are:

• Scalable
• Auditable
• Aligned with enterprise architecture

Own system alignment to:

• SOX controls
• Audit requirements
• Segregation of duties (SoD)

Partner with Finance Technology Manager on policy translate into system enforcement

Maintain:

• Role design and access governance
• Configuration documentation
• Audit support artifacts

Work hand-in-hand with:

• Finance Technology Manager (GL, AP, payments, compliance)
• Supply Chain Technology Manager (procurement, sourcing, supplier ops)

Translate business process designs into clean, standard Coupa configurations

Provide technical guardrails and pushback to keep Coupa with best-in-practice processes.

Coordinate with SAP and enterprise systems:

• Vendor master
• Purchase orders
• Invoices and payments

Ensure:

• Data integrity across systems
• Clean integration patterns (no point-to-point chaos)

Support integration monitoring and issue resolution

Own platform operations:

• Incident triage and root cause resolution
• Vendor / AMS coordination

Establish transparency through KPIs:

• Cycle times
• Adoption rates
• Exception handling trends

Maintain and prioritize system backlog in partnership with Tech Managers

Engage in implementation to shape core configuration (roles, workflows, controls)

Own platform lifecycle management
, including:

• Coordination of Coupa monthly releases
• Review of release notes and impact assessment
• Recommendation of features to enable, defer, or reject

Establish a release cadence and governance model
:

• Align releases to business cycles (month-end, year-end)
• Communicate changes and readiness to stakeholders
• Drive Go / No-Go decisions

Lead release testing coordination
:

• Define regression scope with Tech Managers & SAP leads
• Validate critical end-to-end flows
• Manage defect resolution

Ensure alignment with enterprise change landscape
:

• SAP upgrades (e.g., 2025)
• Integration impacts
• Change control

Identify opportunities to:

• Automate workflows
• Increase touchless processing
• Improve user experience

Leverage Coupa roadmap capabilities (AI, automation, insights)

Partner with Finance on working capital optimization

5+ years in Source-to-Pay, Procurement Systems, or Finance Technology

Hands-on Coupa administration or implementation experience

Strong understanding of:

• Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes
• Approval workflows and controls
• Supplier lifecycle management

Experience working alongside:

• Finance and Procurement stakeholders
• ERP systems (SAP preferred)

Experience in SOX-controlled environments

Experience in a product-aligned or triad operating model

Exposure to:

• Coupa modules (Procurement, Invoicing, Payments)
• Data governance frameworks

Experience balancing:

• Project (build) work
• Run/support operations