Sr. Business Analyst - SAP SCM EWM

Sr. Business Systems Analysts are responsible for the analysis, design, testing, and implementation of business processes and the software applications that support these business processes. Sr. Business Systems Analysts provide business value through their collaboration with business counterparts and senior application team members, ensuring existing business processes are functioning efficiently and designing business process enhancements and extensions. Sr. Business Systems Analysts have in-depth knowledge of processes within at least one business function. Sr. Business Analysts consult with direct line management to determine work priorities and plans.

Responsibilities:

• Implements business process solutions and enhancements.
• Working in collaboration with business counterparts and with oversight from senior IT resources, analyzes current business processes, elicits new business requirements, develops functional process design, and creates associated reporting necessary to provide management oversight of the business process.
• Maintains knowledge of current process standards within their function.
• With support of senior application team members, understands the impact of process changes to the existing environment.
• Translates business requirements, functional designs, and business scenarios into comprehensive test plans that are used to confirm business processes function as intended before implementation.
• Performs detailed unit testing to ensure technical design meets functional requirements.
• Collaborates with business counterparts and senior application team members to ensure integration testing includes all necessary business process variations.
• Ensures business users' understanding and acceptance of process changes and test results. Identifies impact on related processes and conducts regression testing of affected areas.
• Develops documentation related to business process design, including high-level business process overviews, detailed functional specifications, and visual aids such as business process flows. Maintains current documentation as processes evolve.
• Tailors the content of documentation appropriately to the intended audience.
• Performs training of business counterparts related to implementation of new business processes.
• Shares best practices on current business processes with business counterparts across the organization to ensure effective and efficient usage of software applications.
• Leads the implementation of routine process changes and system enhancements with oversight from senior IT resources.
• Understands project management methodology and the role of the business analyst in the software development lifecycle.
• Develops and maintains business relationships with key business users and managers within their sphere of responsibility.
• Other duties as needed or required.

Essential Functions of the Role:

• Fully competent in the principles and practices of business analysis.
• Maintains current knowledge of business and technological trends.
• Flexibility in work schedule, including off-hours for project implementation.
• Travel via plane or automobile, both locally and internationally, 25% or less.

Requirements:

• Number of Overall Years Necessary: 5+ years.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a related business function.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in business process analysis and design with SAP S/4 EWM.
• BS/BA, or equivalent business experience in a business-related discipline.
• MBA or advanced degree desirable.

Specialized Skills / Technical Knowledge:

• Possesses deep ERP application knowledge in the following functional areas. Application knowledge includes configuration of business processes, key integration points between modules, related master data, and transactional execution. Maintains current knowledge of business trends and technology developments and applies this knowledge to meet business challenges.
• Warehousing and Distribution: Process knowledge should include product storage, inventory management, order fulfillment, and transportation. Integration knowledge should include connections to order-to-cash, planning, and finance.
• Purchasing: Process knowledge should include purchase order processing, stock transport order processing, inventory management, and master data (vendor, material, and purchasing info records). Integration knowledge should include connection to warehouse management, distribution, and finance. Additionally, knowledge of demand planning and supply network planning in SAP IBP applies to this specialization.
• Working knowledge of business intelligence tools, including SAP BI, SAP ABAP Query, and SAP Report Writer. Applies business intelligence tools to ad hoc analysis of business process issues and ongoing business process monitoring and control.
• Strong expertise in desktop applications essential to the position, including Visio for process flow diagrams and Excel and/or Access for large-scale data analysis.
• Strong knowledge of business requirements elicitation techniques, such as use cases, prototyping, questionnaires, etc., used in the business analysis discipline. Applies an appropriate requirements-gathering approach based upon the situation and audience.
• Processes financial acumen necessary to perform basic cost-benefit analysis related to low-complexity process enhancements.
• Strong analytical skills to identify business needs, formulate viable alternative solutions, and present the business/technical impact of the solutions.
• Strong verbal communication skills, including the ability to understand oral descriptions of complex business processes and technical content. Converses with business users using common business vocabulary, avoiding technical jargon. Takes measures to test common understanding, including paraphrasing and slowing their speech pattern.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to document complex business processes and technical content using common business terminology. Uses visual aids like process flows or decision tables to supplement verbal explanations.
• Fluency in English is required.