Sr Analyst Accounts Payable

Medline; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Medline is seeking a Senior AP Analyst to lead elicitation, analysis, and documentation of complex accounts payable requirements. You will partner with business stakeholders, IT, and vendors to ensure compliant, efficient solutions across the full project lifecycle.

Responsibilities include managing traceability, impact analysis, UAT support, and adherence to regulatory standards to deliver measurable AP improvements and analytics capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Experience with ERP systems; SAP preferred
• SOX/compliance knowledge advised
• Generative AI concepts exposure beneficial
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Lead elicitation, analysis, and documentation of end-to-end requirements for Accounts Payable initiatives.
• Maintain requirements traceability and manage changes with stakeholder approval.
• Collaborate with IT, Finance, and external partners to resolve design or implementation issues.
• Support UAT by contributing to test strategy and validating test cases.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, SOX, and internal control standards.
• Develop and maintain reporting to support AP analytics and BI needs

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder communication

SQL basics

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

ERP systems

Job description

Responsible for leading the elicitation, analysis, documentation, and management of complex business and functional requirements in support of Accounts Payable initiatives. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, IT, and external vendors to ensure solutions align with strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational efficiency goals. The Senior AP Analyst plays a critical role in driving process optimization, analytics enablement, and successful delivery of AP-related projects across their full lifecycle.

Core Job Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate scope definition activities, ensuring business objectives, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies are clearly documented and agreed upon by stakeholders.
• Elicit, analyze, and document end-to-end business, functional, and data requirements using appropriate analysis techniques, ensuring traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Evaluate solution options by performing cost/benefit, risk, and impact analysis, and provide clear recommendations to business leadership.
• Maintain requirements traceability matrices to ensure alignment between business needs, design specifications, testing artifacts, and implemented solutions.
• Manage and control changes to requirements, conducting detailed impact assessments and ensuring stakeholder approval prior to implementation.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including IT, Finance, and external partners, to clarify requirements and resolve design or implementation issues.
• Guide business partners toward practical, compliant, and sustainable solutions that support defined business benefits and operational efficiency.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by contributing to test strategy development, reviewing and validating test cases, and assisting with defect triage and impact analysis.
• Verify requirements through UAT outcomes and obtain formal business sign‑off confirming solution readiness for deployment.
• Ensure all requirements and deliverables comply with applicable regulatory, legislative, SOX, and internal control standards.
• Identify, define, and maintain KPIs and success metrics aligned to AP performance, including quality, efficiency, and financial controls.
• Produce accurate, timely, and high‑quality project documentation in accordance with established project governance standards.
• Develop and maintain standard and ad hoc reporting to support Medline AP’s business intelligence and analytics needs.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience working within ERP environments; SAP strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of Accounts Payable processes, financial controls, and SOX compliance requirements.
• Experience operating effectively within a matrixed organizational structure.
• Exposure to generative and agentic AI concepts or solutions within a business or analytics context.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts for non‑technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Business Analyst and/or in Accounts Payable or related financial processes.
• Demonstrated experience gathering, documenting, and managing business requirements for medium to complex initiatives.
• Working knowledge of business analysis methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Understanding of the full project management lifecycle, including requirements, design, testing, and implementation phases.
• Proven ability to prioritize and manage a dynamic workload across multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Experience with reporting, analytics, and data analysis; SQL or similar query tools preferred.