About This Role
An Associate contributes to team discussions, applies critical thinking to procurement challenges, and leverages data for strategy. The role involves clear communication with stakeholders and adaptability across various business environments while upholding ethical conduct.
Responsibilities
- Encourage collaboration and proactively contribute to team discussions
- Apply critical thinking to complex procurement challenges and strategic decision-making
- Leverage data and industry trends to extract insights for S2P strategy
- Provide clear and structured communication to stakeholders and suppliers
- Maintain adaptability in working across various business environments and supply chain models
- Uphold PwC's commitment to ethics and business conduct
- Lead procurement project delivery and ensure execution against KPIs
- Act as a key liaison between stakeholders, suppliers, and procurement teams
- Provide insights and recommendations for process efficiencies and procurement modernization
- Lead client discussions and drive influence through actionable insights
- Design approval workflows in Coupa transactional documents like POs, Service Confirmations, and Invoices
- Configure, develop, and troubleshoot RESTful APIs and flat file-based integrations for all master and transactional data between P2P platforms and backend systems
- Work with middleware tools like Dell Boomi, Mulesoft, Snaplogic, etc. to implement middleware logic as part of the integrations between Coupa and ERP systems
- Develop solutions for clients using service-oriented architecture patterns to ensure master and transactional data travel successfully between systems
- Gather technical requirements and conduct sessions to design the integrations between P2P platforms and backend systems
- Take responsibility for all technical phases of an implementation project including architecture, design, development, test, customization, documentation, and data migration solutions for business applications in SaaS and other ERP systems
- Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, build, and test the integration design
- Design technical logic for solution development/enhancement
- Work with clients during the hypercare phase to resolve integration issues between Coupa and end-to-end systems
- Provide expert advice to clients on integration API and flat file best practices and deliver efficient and simple integration design for easy maintenance of the system post Go-Live
Requirements
- Experience with Coupa Procure-to-Pay (P2P) platform as an implementer and administrator
- Understanding of fundamental principles of Coupa including spend and commodity taxonomies, requisitioning, PO generation, receiving, and invoice processing
