ERP Business Analyst

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders, business process leads and subject matter experts within the assigned domain to understand solution objectives, challenges, and regulatory/operational constraints.
• Elicit, analyze and document business requirements using interviews, workshops, and process reviews.
• Develop current state and future state, user stories, process maps, functional requirements, and business rules.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, streamline, and optimize business processes / workflows using ERP best practices in a regulated manufacturing environment.
• Use data assets to compile information for analysis in approaching business challenges.

SAP & ERP Functional Expertise

• Serve as an ERP functional expert for the assigned business domain, with strong working knowledge of SAP solutions relevant to that area.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications for SAP configuration, enhancements, data mapping and integrations.
• Collaborate with SAP configuration, development, integration, OCM and data teams to design end-to-end solutions.
• Advise stakeholders on SAP capabilities, limitations, design alternatives, and impacts to upstream, downstream and cross stream processes.

Project Delivery & Implementation Support

• Serve as a functional advisor on designs for Client’s initial SAP S4H implementation.
• Support ERP initiatives across the full lifecycle: planning, design, build, test, training and deployment.
• Lead or support system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT), including test case development, execution, and defect resolution.
• Participate in cutover planning, data validation, and go-live activities to ensure business readiness.
• Provide functional support during hypercare and transition to steady-state operations.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Enablement

• Act as a trusted advisor to business process owners and leadership.
• Communicate requirements, design decisions, and impacts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support change management efforts by contributing to training materials, job aids, and user documentation.
• Enable business users to understand and accept the capabilities and limitations of ERP and integrated systems.

Continuous Improvement & Support

• Analyze post implementation performance and recommend enhancements or process improvements.
• Verify that delivered solutions achieve expected business benefits and have success metrics.
• Support ongoing ERP enhancements, minor projects, and production issues within the assigned domain.
• Stay current on SAP S4H roadmap updates, ERP trends, and best practices related to the area of specialization.
• Promote and engage in enterprise data initiatives such as data governance.

Experience & Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SAP S4H experience is required.
• Participation in SAP implementation(s), upgrades, or major enhancements is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, ERP Business Analyst or related role, specializing in a specific business domain bridging process with technology.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA, Private Cloud, Integrated Business Platform (IBP).

Education/Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Equivalent level of education, training and experience may be considered.
• Certification specific to the Functional Domain they are aligned to (CPIM, ASCM, CCSM).
• SAP certification(s) in a relevant functional module.
• SAP Certification in a Methodology: Accelerate, Activate or RISE