Job Description

Description

Here, we believe theres not one path to success, we believe in careers that grow with you. Whoever you are or wherever you come from in the world, theres a place for you at Sherwin-Williams. We provide you with the opportunity to explore your curiosity and drive us forward. Well give you the space to share your strengths and we want you to show us what you can do. You can innovate, grow and discover in a place where you can thrive and Let Your Colors Show!

Sherwin-Williams values the unique talents and abilities from all backgrounds and characteristics. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply, including individuals with disabilities and Protected Veterans.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

The Buy Right Coupa Intern position exists to support our Coupa Procure to Pay software investments and business processes to transform and optimize the indirect procure to pay process of Sherwin Williams. This position supports test completion in our non-production environment for solution/enhancement unit testing as well as monthly regression testing. The interns testing work safeguards our production processes, interfaces and reports that affect the delivery of financial or business information.

The intern follows a disciplined process that assists with financial process improvement definition, pulls together data for analysis and assists with tasks as assigned by their supervisor. This position works mostly support and testing activities and, at times, will support enhancement or project work as their experience and knowledge grow.

The intern possesses a basic understanding of business processes and software technical understanding from their education achieved and/or prior work experiences. The intern role works on a consistent basis with their supervisor and on a limited basis with our Supplier Enablement and Buyer roles.

Responsibilities as assigned by supervisor:

Responsible for all functional and technical design, configuration, implementation, maintenance and testing of the Coupa Procure-to-Pay system.

* Support the Coupa application, performing user training and maintaining procedural documentation
* Participate in the testing of the configured system, support of the configured system after go-live, ongoing configuration and integration support of the configured system, and support for all Coupa upgrades
* Maintain documentation and for all segments of the Coupa platform.
* Maintain system data and access including, users, approvers, vendors and FSS organization
* Be a resource to assist the Coupa business community in the development of ad-hoc reports or queries using various tools. This will require the ability to understand data structures and analyze data retrievals.

**This is a 6 month internship. Looking for a student who can start in April, 2021 and work an average of 25 hours per week.

Position Requirements:

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

Actively pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, IT or business-related field.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required

* Strong oral and written communication skills.
* Proven ability and initiative to learn/research new concepts, ideas and technologies quickly.
* Basic systems/process orientation with demonstrated critical, analytical thinking, organization and problem solving.
* Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment as well as independently.
* Ability to quickly learn new tools and technology.
* Willingness and ability to train and teach others.
* Ability to facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items.
* Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure, deadline oriented environment.
* Basic presentation and interpersonal skills.

Preferred:

* Accounts Payable, Procurement or IT experience preferred
* Experience with Software as a Service is a plus as is any experience with financial accounting, customer management, and sales force automation software

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

a. Required:

* Demonstrate ability to extend college learning into S-W business processes.
* Possess a basic knowledge level of business processes and software systems potential.
* Basic skills in Microsoft Office Applications.

Sherwin-Williams is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or by contract.

As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Sherwin-Williams requests state and local employment services delivery systems to provide priority referral of Protected Veterans.

Temporary work from home protocols may be in effect for this position due to COVID-19, but this is not a remote position and any selected candidate must live within a reasonable commuting distance.