SAP Business Analyst

SAP Business Analyst

Contract - Initial 6 months

Hybrid working

€450 - €500 per day

Key Responsibilities / Outcomes

·      Working with business owners, project managers, technology, vendors and multiple stakeholders, lead the analysis phase of one or more projects to ensure the requirements of the business are translated into clear documented asks using appropriate frameworks

·      Facilitate requirements gathering sessions, build consensus and document accordingly in line with the delivery methodology in place and the schedule as set by the project manager. Understand and deliver on the customers needs, collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure requirements are documented and agreed

·      Translate business requirements to the delivery team, collaboratively produce design specifications, work to ensure the solutions designed meet the business requirements, present back outcomes to the business stakeholders

·      Deliver complex process mapping of AS IS and TO Be processes as required to support business change processes, technical process mapping to support the delivery teams, or as required to manage the change program. Pivotal member of the change management process and bringing our stakeholders through the change journey

·      Support the team during the delivery lifecycle required in areas such as business readiness, testing, support and training.

·      Contribute in relevant planning, status updates, and governance as appropriate. Provide estimations for work, work to a schedule, escalate any observations to the project manager

·      Contribute at a program level in areas such as cross workstream dependencies and multi system integrations

·      Contribute to culture change across projects where necessary

Key Skills, Experiences & Competencies

·      10+ years implementing technology solutions for complex business problems in an FMCG environment

·      Master Data tool and need a BA to do data analysis and business approval workflows.

·      Have a clear understand of the following data objects Customer, Vendor, Product or material & the rules associated with them

·      Difference between ECC6 & SAP Hana 4

·      Gap Analysis to ensure no gaps between end of life of existing system & go live of new system.

·      The ideal candidate should be comfortable operating in waterfall and agile environments and can transition between methodologies as appropriate depending on the project or product.

·      Excellent documentation skills, process mapping, user requirements specifications, functional specifications, requirements traceability matrices, feature and story writing

·      Substantial commercial acumen, the Business Analyst will be immersed in the business for long periods and must be comfortable operating across different divisions and departments

·      Comfortable working with 3^rd party vendors to design solutions, developers, reasonable knowledge of design patterns and application architecture

·      Attention to detail, must be able to operate at the relevant levels of detail required to ensure successful delivery

·      Self-starter with strong communication, presentation, relationship building and end to end analytical skills

·      Strong data analysis skills, interpreting information, cleansing and data transformation, use of excel, SQL and database querying tools an advantage

·      Prior experience working in a GxP environment useful

·      Experience in implementing some of the following – ERP, WMS, CRM, eCommerce, digital portals, mobile apps, reporting tools

·      Relevant Business Analysis certifications a plus