Purchasing Analyst

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About the Team

About the Role

The Procurement Analyst (P3) is primarily responsible for facilitating key operations of the endtoend procurement of goods and services and for driving a highquality consistent and customerfocused purchasing experience. You will serve as a primary point of contact for purchasingrelated activities including reviewing purchase requisitions for completion and accuracy managing approvals issuing purchase orders reconciling invoice discrepancies and providing product training and support to internal customers.

You will leverage your strong knowledge of the SourcetoPay process your familiarity with financial systems and tools and your understanding of Workday Procurement and Financial functionality (as applicable to the role) to ensure that purchasing activities align with organizational goals support SOX control requirements and drive efficiency and this role you will use data and analytics to identify trends monitor performance and recommend improvements while also contributing to crossfunctional projects and scalable futurestate solutions.

This role has room for growth and scope expansion. A successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a global fastpaced environment balancing multiple priorities and proactively identifying opportunities to enhance processes and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary point of contact for internal customers for all purchasingrelated queries ensuring a positive transparent customer experience with timely responses.

• Review purchase requisitions for accuracy completeness appropriate coding budget alignment and policy compliance; ensure proper approvals and process purchase orders in a timely manner.

• Apply strong knowledge of the endtoend SourcetoPay process and related crossfunctional dependencies to manage purchasing activities and support stakeholders across regions ensuring smooth operations and consistent service levels.

• Follow and help refine Standard Operating Procedures to ensure quality consistency compliance and strong SOX controls.

• Partner with Accounts Payable to investigate and reconcile invoice and receiving transaction discrepancies leading issue resolution and rootcause corrective actions.

• Own supplierrelated activities including supplier set ups maintenance approvals and inactivations in alignment with Procurement Operations policies and controls.

• Use data and analytics to identify trends measure process performance and drive targeted improvements in cycle time quality and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Leverage Workday Procurement and Financial functionality to support purchasing operations provide feedback to WoW and Product teams on enhancements and assist with testing and adoption of new functionality.

• Build strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders and suppliers; assess training needs and help develop and deliver training on purchasing processes and tools while proactively resolving or escalating key issues and risks.

Contribute to crossfunctional strategic projects and continuous process improvement initiatives ensuring successful completion of recurring tasks and actively supporting team and organizational goals in line with Workdays Core Values.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of experience in a Procurement Buyer Purchasing Analyst Procurement Operations or closely related finance operations role.

• Demonstrated experience creating and managing purchase orders and supporting endtoend purchasing processes.

• Experience working in a fastpaced highly transactional environment.

Other Qualifications

• Strong understanding of SourcetoPay processes and related crossfunctional dependencies (Finance Accounts Payable vendors and business stakeholders).

• Familiarity with financial systems and tools; experience with Workday Procurement and/or Workday Financials is strongly preferred.

• Excellent and professional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with stakeholders and management at all levels.

• Strong planning organizational and timemanagement skills; proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines while maintaining high quality.

• Attention to detail accuracy and strong analytical and problemsolving skills; able to use data to identify trends and recommend improvements.

• Proven experience identifying and implementing process improvements and efficiencies within purchasing or adjacent processes.

• Demonstrates initiative flexibility and complete followthrough on areas of responsibility; comfortable operating with a strong sense of ownership.

• Customerservice focused and solutionoriented with a collaborative and inclusive work style aligned with Workdays core values.

• Experience working in a global international company and with stakeholders across regions is helpful.

• Software and/or SaaS industry experience is highly preferred.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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