Ravi Shankar P

About Ravi Shankar P

Experienced Coupa Techno-Functional Consultant with 4 years of expertise in P2P…

Experience

1. Associate Analyst - Finance Systems (Coupa Admin)

   Maximus India

   Oct 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Provide end-to-end support to the India and US teams in the procurement process, including manual procurement in India and Coupa setup for the US team.*Negotiate pricing with vendors, onboard vendors, and collaborate with legal and Infosecurity teams to ensure MSAs and contracts comply with company standards.*Initiate the approval process in line with the authority matrix, create and release purchase orders, and manage the invoicing process by forwarding invoices to the finance team for payment.*Led end-to-end implementation of Coupa Procurement, Supplier Information Management (SIM), Contracts, Invoicing and Analytics modules for a global organisation with users.*Managed requirement gathering, solution design, system configuration, UAT, and post-go-live support for Coupa implementations.*Configured approval workflows and routing rules for requisitions and purchase orders.*Collaborated with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to streamline procurement and finance processes.*Developed training materials and conducted user training sessions (eg: Coupa Roadshows) to ensure smooth adoption of the Coupa platform.*Assist end users with Coupa queries, guide them on creating requisitions (regular & punch- out), approve requisitions and POs, and support the AP team for invoice creation through Invoice Smash.*Manage the export of invoices from Coupa to Costpoint (ERP), manually re-exporting when necessary.*Create and submit change requests on behalf of the users.*Run daily Cognos reports to verify successful export of invoices to Costpoint.*Create and schedule analytics reports to provide insights to the users.*Schedule calls to support users with Coupa queries.*Set up punch-out sites, create requisitions and contract forms, and assign roles to users for Coupa system access as a part of my tasks.* Monitored and troubleshooted integration issues.*Creating an external PO\'s on behalf of the users through a Postman.