Business Systems Analyst SAP Ariba

Overview

The Business Systems Analyst, SAP Ariba and Business Network, serves as a senior functional subject matter expert for Albemarle's Source-to-Pay technology landscape. The role supports SAP Ariba applications, SAP Business Network, supplier enablement, integrations, business requirements, solution delivery, production support, governance, and continuous improvement.

What you'll do

• Support, enhance, and optimize enterprise applications and business processes within the assigned functional domain.
• Serve as a trusted partner and primary point of contact for business stakeholders and users.
• Support SAP Ariba Sourcing, including RFI, RFP, RFQ, competitive bidding, auction, supplier participation, evaluation, award, monitoring, reporting, and user assistance processes.
• Design and maintain sourcing project templates, event templates, questionnaires, content documents, scoring models, approval flows, and team-member rules.
• Support SAP Ariba Contracts processes covering contract request, authoring, negotiation, review, approval, execution, amendment, renewal, expiration, and closeout.
• Design and maintain contract workspace templates, document templates, clause libraries, tasks, phases, approval workflows, team-member rules, and notifications.
• Support contract hierarchy, amendments, renewals, milestones, obligations, expiration management, document integration, electronic signatures, migration, reporting, and governance.
• Define and maintain SAP Ariba Contract Line Item structures, validation rules, governance controls, pricing, quantities, units of measure, terms, tolerances, and accounting attributes.
• Support creation, loading, validation, publication, amendment, renewal, expiration, and mass updates of contract line items.
• Support SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing requisitioning, approvals, ordering, receipts, service entry, invoicing, reconciliation, and exception management.
• Support guided buying, forms, policies, landing pages, commodity structures, purchasing channels, catalog enablement, approval workflows, business rules, controls, tolerances, and exception handling.
• Support invoice matching, reconciliation, tax-related requirements, account assignment, credit memos, invoice approvals, and catalog governance.
• Support SAP Business Network supplier registration, onboarding, qualification, enablement, connectivity, and transaction adoption.
• Support supplier transactions including purchase orders, order confirmations, change orders, ship notices, service entry sheets, invoices, credit memos, status updates, and payment-related documents.
• Coordinate supplier testing, transaction validation, cutover, post-go-live support, onboarding procedures, and issue resolution.
• Support Cloud Integration Gateway integrations among SAP Ariba applications, SAP Business Network, SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA, and associated integration components.
• Monitor inbound and outbound transactions for failures, delays, mapping issues, data-quality problems, and incomplete processing.
• Analyze transaction failures, determine root causes, coordinate resolution and reprocessing, validate outcomes, document incidents, and recommend corrective actions.
• Develop monitoring expectations, metrics, dashboards, support runbooks, escalation paths, and opportunities for automated monitoring, notification, triage, and recovery.
• Gather, document, and analyze business requirements; facilitate workshops and process reviews; and translate requirements into functional and solution specifications.
• Investigate and resolve application, process, and data-related issues and support incident, problem, and service request management.
• Analyze processes and support simplification, standardization, optimization, automation, workflow, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Participate in fit-gap analysis, solution design, configuration reviews, testing, deployment, hypercare, and transition to production support.
• Develop test plans and scripts, coordinate user acceptance testing, support regression testing, and assist with defect management.
• Support data quality, reporting, analytics, process governance, data integrity, stakeholder collaboration, prioritization, planning, and continuous improvement.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
• Eight or more years of experience in procurement technology, Source-to-Pay, Procure-to-Pay, SAP, enterprise applications, or business systems analysis.
• Five or more years of hands-on functional experience with SAP Ariba.
• Experience with SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contracts, Buying and Invoicing, and SAP Business Network.
• Experience supporting integrations between SAP Ariba and SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience supporting production transaction monitoring, failure analysis, issue resolution, and reprocessing coordination.
• Participation in at least three full-cycle SAP Ariba implementations or major deployments.
• A lead or senior functional role for at least two SAP Ariba go-lives.
• Completed go-live delivery experience covering multiple capabilities from SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Ariba Contracts, Contract Line Items, SAP Ariba Buying, SAP Ariba Invoicing, SAP Business Network, supplier enablement, and CIG integration.
• Experience supporting the complete delivery lifecycle, including design, configuration validation, testing, data preparation, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to production support.
• Experience supporting a live SAP Ariba environment after implementation.
• Experience gathering and documenting business requirements.
• Experience supporting system enhancements, projects, or technology implementations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Details

• Location: Banglore, India.