Title: Business Analyst III
Location: Madison, WI
Duration: 7 Months
Remote
Summary:
The Business Analyst will be responsible for designing and optimizing business processes and partner with IT to design systems. The Business Process Analyst acts as a liaison between business teams and works with technology teams. This person will support process design, improvement projects, as well as module launches through all phases of the project lifecycle with the COUPA Integrated Procurement suite. The role will focus on evaluating, prioritizing, and managing changes to the system using appropriate change management processes, as well as training.
This role will research gaps in functionality, gather requirements of users and present recommendations to both technical and business teams. This individual will understand the business processes and system capabilities to enable the analysis of business requirements and the development of solutions for the business functions and other departments.
Duties:
- Conduct in-depth analysis of procurement operations to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement; particularly focused on contracting, ordering, invoicing and related processes
- Develop and implement procurement strategies to optimize ordering, invoicing, contracting and related processes to improve inventory management, reduce lead times, and improve overall operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with division business areas and corporate processes owners to design and implement procurement solutions that align with business goals and objectives.
Skills:
- key skill is analysis, configuration and testing experience with COUPA Integrated Procurement Suite (or similar suites like Ariba, IVALUA, Zycus, Workday, etc)
- FOCUS will be for Indirect spend areas with our Cancer Diagnostics division and our integration efforts with the larger Abbott Global Procurement processes and may work with select other Abbott divisions
- IDEALLY have implemented the COUPA Integrated suite for P2P solutions or equivalent and have worked closely with business areas and IT to define requirements, configure processes, established and executed testing plans as well as cutover activities for communications and training.
- • Leverage data analytics and modeling techniques to funderstand metrics, processes flows and improve performance.
- Develop user test plans and work with core team members to validate user acceptance testing against documented business requirements.
- Develop and maintain Functional Design Documents and Configuration Documentation that outlines system scheme
- Support the development of sta