SAP Global COUPA Functional Lead

Company Name : ACL Digital Job Location : Devarabisanhalli, Bangalore Work Mode : Hybrid(2 days from office/Week) SAP Global COUPA Functional Lead : 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 the company. 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.