Lead Ariba Systems Administrator - P2P & Process Optimizer

Empower; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Empower is seeking a Lead Ariba System Administrator to manage SAP Ariba platform configurations, workflows, and data. You will partner with Procurement, Finance, and IT to translate requirements into efficient system solutions.

You will lead testing, releases, and support activities, while driving process improvements, training end-users, and ensuring security and compliance across the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Ten years of relevant experience, including procurement, system and customer support.
• Must have SAP Ariba administration experience
• Ariba knowledge - P2P, Business System Admin, SLP modules, along with parts of Sourcing, Contracts and Supplier Risk modules.
• Must understand accounting principles.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Must be able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing to all customer and management levels.
• Highly motivated, confident, energetic and must possess passion for customer service and delivering at a high level.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Resourceful and creative problem solver to constructively work with team members to find solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, along with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Serves in lead capacity providing guidance, being a subject expert and an escalation point with regards to buying and invoicing activities.
• Evaluates existing processes and ensures system functionality is effective.
• Translates business requirements into functional documentation of solutions for process improvements, system integrations and analytics
• Develops process scenarios and test scripts, to support upgrades and implementations, along with day-to-day business needs.
• Coordinate system upgrades, releases, testing, regression testing, and production deployments. Serves on the Change Advisory Board to review business unit requests for changes/enhancements to Ariba modules.
• Responsible for learning new technologies and being able to communicate effectively when discussing with end-users and non-procurement management.
• Serves as a lead on the Ariba team partnering constructively with team members to problem solve and find solutions on procurement system issues.
• Serves as the lead on P2P Business System Administration and Test Management, including, but not limited to test project creation and execution, adding on-going test cases and other required configuration/coordination, as needs arise.
• Responsible for workflow activation and change monitoring.
• Serves as the system issue liaison, defect tracking, including driving issue resolution for new or currently outstanding P2P issues or needs.
• Identifies technical resources needed to resolve system issues, supports continuous improvement, including reviewing processes against system configuration and makes recommendations for improvements.
• Provides technical support to further the knowledge of end-users and buyers in execution of their P2P transactional activities and is the primary point of contact for problem resolution.
• Presents technical topics in staff meetings on procedural issues of importance to the team.
• Acts as a liaison between IT and business units to identify issues, requirements, develop solutions and deliver results related to systems configuration, workflow and data integration in a timely manner.
• Identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, and improved user experience.
• Provide user training, guidance, and documentation to promote system adoption and consistent practices.
• Ensure system administration activities comply with internal controls, security requirements, finance policies, and audit standards.
• Serve as a primary point of contact with SAP Ariba support and external implementation or support partners when needed.
• Other duties and technical projects assigned.

Skills

SAP Ariba administration

P2P knowledge

System administration

Documentation

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

MS Office

ERP/Procurement systems

Job description

Empower is seeking a Lead Ariba System Administrator to manage SAP Ariba platform configurations, workflows, and data. You will partner with Procurement, Finance, and IT to translate requirements into efficient system solutions.

You will lead testing, releases, and support activities, while driving process improvements, training end-users, and ensuring security and compliance across the platform.