Job Title: SAP Business Analyst
Location: Alabama
Salary Range: $120,000 - $135,000 + bonus
Benefits: Healhcare, PTO
Job Summary:
The SAP Business Analyst is responsible supporting local business stakeholders in the use of our SAP solutions and services, such as capturing business requirements, self-testing solutions, coordinating UAT testing with business owners, and training our user community. Must be able to work in a global community and provide solutions that fit within our global standards and portfolio. This includes coordinating all SAP activities with SAP Center of Excellence (CoE) and external providers. Defining and coordinating continuous improvement objectives and supporting global SAP project rollouts.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the following SAP functional domains: manufacturing process, quality mgmt., procurement, plant maintenance, materials mgmt., financial accounting and controlling.
- Liaise with SAP CoE teams (Support & Operations team and Functional Domain Experts) to ensure that requirements, issues and concerns from the end-user community are reflected in the relevant discussions with business stakeholders.
- Proactively identify opportunities for increased operational and business efficiencies and work proactively with key business and IT stakeholders to action them.
- Provide overall assistance to local user community during lifecycle of tickets, especially in evaluating business requirements and formalizing those requirements into a Business Requirement Document and support the requirement owner(s) during UAT.
- Provide inputs for prioritization and ordering of change requests during SAP Change Advisory Board meetings.
- Ensure consistencies with local applications team between SAP solution and MES solution.
- Developing test plans and performing quality control over testing to assure the functionality and integrity of system.
- Business support: troubleshooting system issues, analyzing processes and recommending best courses of action. Proactive incident management.
- Understand the technology and business strategies of the organization, work with site application manager, local teams and SAP CoE in system evolution.
- Contribute to the application of processes, standards, policies, and methods to be SOX compliant.
- Update relevant documentation shared with SAP CoE, external providers, and key users.
- Animate the local key user’s community to keep them efficient and motivated by
- Organizing and contributing to key users training
- Keep key user community informed about central IT happenings, including SAP’s CoE.
- Work with the business, local IT team and SAP CoE project team to develop a robust business case for each proposed project and change request.
Qualifications:
- Must have strong knowledge in the following functional areas: PP, QM, and EDI.
- PM, FI/CO, and Purchasing are nice to have
- Master or bachelor’s degree in CIS, Engineering, or other relevant areas.
- Minimum five years of experience working with SAP ECC 6.0 or higher.
- Minimum of five years of experience in an international IT-environment, within the manufacturing environment.
- Experience with at least 1 SAP full life cycle implementation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to dialogue with and challenge all business stakeholders at all levels and central IT teams.
- Capacity to work in a virtual team environment to support various time zones (domestic & international).
- Fluency in English is necessary.
- Broad and in-depth experience of SAP, both from a technical and functional perspective. General understanding of SAP ERP architecture and knowledge of SAP customizing.
- SAP interfaces with external systems and EDI knowledge is a plus.
- Ability to identify priorities, deadlines, and expectations and execute assignments accordingly.
- Experience, competence and enthusiasm for implementing solutions to shape and improve business processes.
- Open minded to act as change agent and to fill comfortable with continuous improvement and Lean principles.
- Pragmatism to analyze and manage incidents/ problems.
- Highly motivated with the desire to work both independently and on a team as required.
- Awareness, practice, and commitment to a safe working environment.
- A good understanding of the ITIL framework is preferred.
- The role requires an on-site presence.
Brilliant Staffing, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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