Senior Business Analyst (SAP/S4 HANA)

• Working in partnership with the Enterprise Resource Planning – SAP team and other departments to bring a deep understanding of business analysis to help stakeholders close the gap between complex, long-term business outcomes and their translation into the detailed functions and features that project solutions need to satisfy.

• Identify, define and assure that solutions maximize the value delivered by a project to the organization and the stakeholders.

• Work closely with the stakeholders to understand their business context and priorities.

• Support the business units in defining the business cases required for project approval.

• Facilitate brainstorming sessions with diverse audiences to foster creative thinking about a problem, produce new ideas/solutions and carry out further analysis surrounding their efficacy.

• Seek out and recommend improvements based on in-depth knowledge of end-to-end processes and business architecture.

• Support processes, procedures and documentation related to anticipating, quantifying, managing and controlling project risks

• Support the application organizational change management methods (e.g. ADKAR) to facilitate ??acceptance of project solutions and overcomingresistance to change.

• Facilitate the identification, planning, measurement and tracking ERP-SAP project benefits in order to ensure the maximum value from project investments.

• Identify sources of project requirements and employing specific techniques (e.g. interviews, workshops, prototypes) to extract requirements from these sources.

• Capture ERP-SAP project requirements with broad and diverse audiences along with managing and communicating agreed upon changes in order to clarify the capabilities of products, services or solutions to fulfill stakeholder needs.

• Break down complex or ambiguous problems into concrete deliverables and simple solutions is a prerequisite for success in the role.

• Accurately articulate the essence of stakeholder vision while appropriately questioning the assumptions and constraints buried in stakeholder statements of requirements

• Create processes by which to consistently obtain clear and timely stakeholder sign-off of requirements, supports on-going consensus on solution scope and recognizes when an issue requires escalation.

• Document, analyze and design organizational business processes, information technology (software and hardware), resource structures, operations and the complex relationships between them.

• Translate business requirements into technical specification for implementation or development as well as identifying any shortcomings, problems and limitations of existing solution.

• Input and coordination of the creation of scopes of work that encompass all requirements, deliverables, schedules needed to inform the procurement of external vendors.

• Gather and model relevant data in order to document, visualize and analyze complex information needed to create project deliverables.

• Design data flows and business process.

• Design visual content including conceptual diagrams, charts and graphs to support conceptual ???thinking, the synthesis of information, depict relationships between relevant business concepts, describe project approaches/phases and frame solutions for implementation.

• Assess and validate the value of proposed project solutions, including business processes, organizational structures, service delivery models, software applications, etc., to ensure they meet stakeholder needs, and the optimal solution is implemented.

• Identify, plan and carry out process improvement initiatives designed to make an organization's workflow more effective and efficient.

What you must have:

• At least five (5) years of hands-on experience with SAP modules including SuccessFactors, S/4HANA Finance, Procurement, Workforce Software, Ariba and Concur.

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or Business Administration, with a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Business or Systems Analyst, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Proven ability to translate business requirements into functional specifications for SAP implementations and enhancements.

• Familiarity with SAP Solution Manager, user experience design principles, and integration between SAP and non-SAP systems using middleware and APIs.

• Working knowledge of project and program management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Kanban, and Scrum.

• Advanced proficiency in MS Office tools, particularly MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel (including pivot tables, complex formulas, and data analysis).

• Strong skills in requirements elicitation, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and communication.

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or PMI-PBA

Nice to have:

• Organizational Change Management, Lean/Six Sigma (Greenbelt), TOGAF (Enterprise Architecture), and ITIL (IT Service Management).

• Organizational Change Management (PROSCI), (If possessed by Candidate, Proof of Certification must be submitted with bid submission)

• Lean/Six Sigma (Greenbelt),

• TOGAF (Enterprise Architecture),

• ITIL (IT Service Management).

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.