Sr IT Business Analyst Procurement

PALO ALTO NETWORKS® is a revolutionary and dynamic company creating next generation enterprise security products. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual who wants to contribute and make a difference, this job is for you!

Operating in a fast-paced environment, the Sr. IT Business Analyst (Procurement) works with business and IT leaders in defining the requirements needed to support procure to pay’ in our growing operations organization.

Your expert skills in transforming defined processes into specifications or user stories for software developers will lead to successfully support the needs of both external and internal procurement and supply chain functions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engages in business processes framework including sourcing, Contract Management, Procurement, Vendor Management
• Review and implement automation solutions within the compliance framework of the company, leveraging Agile / Scrum methodologies
• Review User Business requirements and map to system capabilities identify gaps and work with the business to build functional solutions, develop and monitor testing strategies, and ensure resolution of any issues
• Develop functional specifications for systems, changes and provide IT feedback to business partners (timing, budget, technical feedback)
• Work closely with the technical development team to ensure accurate and timely code that matches the designs
• Define testing strategies, consolidate test requirements from stakeholder, ensure all testing environments are setup when integrated solutions are to be tested and drive Functional Unit Testing of the solution including resolution of identified issues
• Review Testing scripts for comprehensiveness, for example, to ensure accuracy of Integration and regression testing efforts
• Participate in the development of production user documentation
• Lead scrum meetings with developer team, Business team and stakeholders
• Provide support to ease adoption of the new enhancements and ongoing production support

REQUIREMENTS

• Solid understanding of the full end to end procurement process & systems in a global environment including Indirect Supplier Management & Onboarding, , Purchase Order Management, Procurement Contracts and reporting
• Experience in software evaluation for procurement / supply chain functions is required to drive the overall strategy and roadmap
• Hands on Experience Implementing and working with Procurement / Contract Management solutions like Coupa, Ariba or other Procurement SAAS tools
• Hands on experience working with larger ERP solutions and integrations with procurement platforms, SAP Preferred
• Experience with vendor master configuration
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment including ability to manage multiple priorities from various internal customers
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong Project Management leadership and project solving skills
• Must be well organized with strong ability to multi task
• Problem identification and timely resolution
• 5-8 years’ hands-on functional and configuration experience including integration points with Procurement Platforms
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

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