Senior Consultant – Business Systems Analyst – Coupa

Overview

Senior Consultant, Business Systems Analyst for Coupa within AstraZeneca's global Axial programme, which implements S/4HANA across the organisation.

What you'll do

• Apply business analysis techniques and lead delivery within a global S/4HANA Finance transformation, ensuring solutions align with clear business objectives.
• Be responsible for the design of Finance capabilities, enable seamless delivery across releases, and lead solution remediation to protect process integrity and performance.
• Ensure compliance with SAP best practices, maintain integrated architecture standards, and implement robust, compliant data designs that endure.
• Assist in project planning, proactively handle risks and interdependencies, and keep delivery on time and on budget.
• Organise and implement project activities using Agile or Waterfall approaches, including SAP Activate, selecting the right tool for the outcome.
• Partner with the IT Design Team to produce solution designs that meet business and multi-functional requirements without fragmenting standards.
• Engage with Enterprise Process Owners to define IT solutions that align to standardised global processes and deliver consistent outcomes.
• Lead Finance process design during global definition, ensuring deep integration with SAP solutions and related data objects.
• Develop and test global standard solutions, and bring designs through governance forums and frameworks to ensure adoption and quality.
• Work with IT Business Analysts, Product Managers, and design experts to ensure global designs are coherent, scalable, and integrated.
• Collaborate with partner SME to bring the best of technology and standard approaches into our solutions.
• Participate in cross-functional design forums to align global designs with strategic business goals and system architecture.
• Address localisation needs during deployment while safeguarding global standardisation and maintainability.
• Create clear solution designs, maintain high-quality project documentation, and deliver training on relevant tools and technologies.
• Analyse, design, and support Coupa-enabled procurement and invoicing capabilities integrated with SAP S/4HANA.
• Bring end-to-end business process understanding across Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Accounts Payable (AP), including requisitioning, purchasing, goods receipt, invoicing, matching, approvals, and payment-related dependencies.
• Define, review, and validate Coupa versus SAP field mappings for master and transactional data; establish mapping rules, identify data gaps, reconcile interface outputs, and support defect resolution through SIT and UAT.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study or equivalent experience.
• Experience applying business analysis tools, techniques, and concepts (e.g., requirements management, user-centered design, business process/product design) to deliver business change.
• Experience collaborating with business partners to identify and address process/product requirements and IT needs.
• Experience leading discussions, identifying and documenting business IT problem statements, business process/product design, and report requirements.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers/vendors and supplier solutions/products.
• Experience planning and handling resources and budgets within assigned areas.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience working with Coupa, including procurement and invoicing processes and integration touchpoints with SAP.
• Strong functional understanding of end-to-end Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Accounts Payable (AP) business processes, controls, and data flows.
• Prior experience mapping Coupa fields to SAP fields for master and transactional data, with responsibility for data validation, reconciliation, interface testing, and defect analysis during SIT and UAT.

Nice to have

• Certification in business analysis practice.
• Experience advising business partners across one or more functional domains within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in effectively communicating with and influencing individuals at various levels (e.g., peers, managers, team members).
• Experience working within a global matrix organization, including geographically dispersed teams and partners.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.
• Work mode: in-office a minimum of three days per week, with individual flexibility.