Business Analyst (SAP ECC Decommissioning)

About the role

W2 only, no C2C; must be authorized to work in the US both now and in the future.

Business Analyst (SAP ECC Decommissioning) (Contract) – Remote in Madison, Wisconsin. Initial contract term is 4‑6 months. A hybrid work arrangement is preferred (Madison, WI), with remote candidates also considered.

Carex is partnering with a Consumer Products industry partner to hire a Contract Business Analyst to support an ECC Decommissioning Program. Experience with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, or enterprise applications is valued.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, assessment meetings, and decision‑focused working sessions with business owners, IT owners, subject matter experts, application teams, infrastructure teams, and program leadership.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements, system usage, dependencies, data needs, reporting requirements, retention obligations, historical‑access expectations, and operational considerations.
• Support application and system assessments by documenting current‑state environments, ownership, dependencies, disposition options, retirement readiness, and required next steps.
• Develop practical recommendations for system and application disposition, including retirement, retention, archival, migration, remediation, or deferral.
• Document supporting rationale, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and outstanding considerations associated with disposition recommendations.
• Translate complex business and technical discussions into clear requirements, actions, recommendations, decisions, approvals, and signoffs.
• Manage follow‑ups and drive open questions, action items, decisions, approvals, and formal business and IT signoffs through completion.
• Prepare and maintain application and system assessment packages, requirements documentation, meeting notes, process flows, decision logs, approval evidence, test scenarios, validation evidence, and status updates.
• Coordinate with business and technical teams on data retention, archival, historical access, reporting, interfaces, batch jobs, infrastructure, testing, and compliance considerations.
• Build and maintain stakeholder and dependency maps to support assessment and decommissioning activities.
• Identify gaps, risks, conflicting information, and unresolved dependencies and present clear options with well‑supported recommendations to program leadership.
• Maintain action, decision, risk, and issue tracking across multiple concurrent assessments.
• Provide concise, decision‑ready updates and executive‑level escalation materials.
• Contribute to program governance, RAID management, and decommissioning‑readiness tracking.

Requirements

• Demonstrated Business Analyst experience supporting enterprise programs, application lifecycle initiatives, system retirement, transformation efforts, or similarly complex cross‑functional programs.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with business users, technical teams, managers, and senior leaders.
• Experience facilitating meetings, workshops, discovery sessions, and structured stakeholder conversations across organizational levels.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow‑through, with the ability to manage multiple assessments and open actions concurrently.
• Ability to synthesize incomplete or conflicting information, identify gaps, and develop practical, well‑supported recommendations.
• Ability to work independently, establish relationships quickly, and operate effectively in a fast‑paced program environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Experience with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, or SAP‑connected applications and business processes is preferred.
• Experience with application decommissioning, data retention, data archival, historical access, infrastructure retirement, or system migration is preferred.
• Familiarity with application inventories, interfaces, batch jobs, reporting, testing, change management, and approval governance is preferred.
• Experience collaborating across business functions, technology teams, vendors, and time zones within a global organization is preferred.