Project Management Lead, Coupa Workstream

Roles & Responsibilities:

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Own the integrated Coupa workstream project plan, milestones, and dependencies across all delivery phases.

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Establish and maintain RAID logs, decision registers, and action trackers specific to Coupa.

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Ensure Coupa activities are sequenced and delivered in line with overall programme timelines and rollout strategy.

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Drive delivery discipline across design, pre-track, testing, migration, and cutover activities.

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Act as the official Coupa workstream representative in various programme and workstream level forums.

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Coordinate Coupa dependencies with Oracle, design, global process, change management, and central PMO teams.

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Ensure Coupa-specific risks and interdependencies are surfaced and managed proactively at programme level.

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Develop clear, executive-ready status reporting on Coupa progress, risks, and readiness.

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Track delivery against plan and highlight variances, capacity constraints, and emerging risks early.

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Support Steering Committee, PMO, and leadership updates with concise, fact-based insights.

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Identify delivery, timeline, and readiness risks within the Coupa workstream.

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Drive mitigation actions in collaboration with relevant teams and stakeholders.

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Escalate material risks and decisions appropriately with clear impact assessment and options.

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Own planning and governance of Pre-Track activities for the Coupa workstream, ensuring alignment with overall programme milestones and rollout strategy.

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Develop and maintain a Pre-Track execution plan covering early LBU engagement, solution walkthroughs, clinics, and readiness checkpoints.

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Coordinate Pre-Track scope, scheduling, and dependencies across Coupa Design, Global Process, Change Management, and central PMO teams.

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Ensure Pre-Track activities are consistently executed across LBUs, with clear entry and exit criteria into formal deployment phases.

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Drive progressive transition from external consultants to internal capability.

Requirements:

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Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, preferably in Finance, Accounting, or Information Systems.

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8–10 years of experience in large-scale finance or ERP/P2P transformation programmes.

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Proven experience managing complex, multi-stream system workstreams.

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Strong exposure to testing, data migration, and cutover governance in enterprise programmes.

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Experience working with system integrators, central PMOs, and multiple stakeholders.

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Excellent planning, stakeholder management, and executive communication skill.

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Experience in presentations to large and senior stakeholders.

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Experience with Coupa P2P and Expense design will be an added advantage.

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Experience in insurance or financial service industries will be an added advantage.

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Strong stakeholder management, project management and analytical skills.

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Strong written and verbal communication skills, and presentation skills.

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Good Finance and Procurement process knowledge.

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Excellent stakeholder management and decision facilitation skills.

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Strong documentation, communication, and governance discipline.