09/29/2026 updated
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Automation & AI Adoption | SAP Source-to-Pay Business Analyst & Product Owner | 13 years
Barcelona, Spain
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Source-to-pay business analyst and product owner with 13 years in the shared services of a global life-sciences group, from posting invoices in SAP to owning global systems and leading automation and AI delivery.
SAP and source-to-pay (business side):
- Product owner of 2 global invoice systems, OpenText SAP VIM and the SAP BRF approval workflow, processing 3 million invoices a year
- 4 global releases a year end to end: business case, requirement specifications, functional test cases, UAT sign-off, hypercare
- Specified SAP BRF changes and worked directly with the SAP/ABAP developers who built them
- SAP MM procure-to-pay from the accounts-payable side: purchase orders, goods receipts, GR/IR clearing, invoice matching
- SAP Ariba: inbound supplier e-invoices; catalog deletion automated, cutting manual effort by 99%
- Designed and shipped 2 public supplier self-service pages (supplier invoicing and invoice-status queries)
Business analysis and delivery:
- Requirements gathering, business requirements specifications, user stories, as-is process flows (Excel, Visio), data specifications
- Moved 15 countries (35 legal entities) onto the global standard in 6 waves; ran requirements sessions per country and trained 600+ users
- First approval on process deviations across roughly 25 countries
- Scrum with distributed teams in Spain, Poland, the Philippines and India: backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews
- Azure DevOps ways of working set up from scratch for a new team
Automation and AI:
- Product owner of the source-to-pay AI co-pilot: 2021 Best Improvement Award (global category), grown to 100 users
- Governed a portfolio of 46 automations; 15,000 hours saved per year recorded across the team's automations
- Led an AI invoice-processing proof of concept with Ernst & Young and advised against implementation when the data did not support the vendor's benefits
- Built internal tools on Power Apps with REST API integration (Databricks), plus Python, SQL, Power Automate, UiPath and Power BI
Keywords: SAP ERP, SAP VIM, OpenText VIM, SAP BRF, SAP MM (accounts-payable side), SAP Ariba, Source-to-Pay, S2P, Procure-to-Pay, P2P, Accounts Payable, Invoice Processing, E-Invoicing, Business Analysis, Requirements Engineering, Functional Testing, UAT, Product Owner, Scrum, Azure DevOps, Process Improvement, Change Management, Rollout, Training, Power Apps, Power Automate, UiPath, RPA, Python, SQL, Power BI, Databricks, REST API, Generative AI, LLM, Pharma, Shared Services
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2026
Languages
EnglishFluent