SAP FICO Business Analyst

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide analysis and recommendations to management to ensure that the business system and associated processes are consistent with the general business direction.
• Develop plans and direct employees to bridge identified gap areas.
• Work with users to examine business process areas for improvement to ensure the most efficient processes are used to meet company objectives.
• Create project timelines and monitor progress to ensure target project dates are met.
• Provide end-user support in specific functional areas of SAP.
• Confer with process owners/business users to analyze current SAP processes, identify problems, learn specific requirements, and develop and recommend solutions.
• Investigate opportunities for implementation of new functionality in SAP to achieve process improvement in the business.
• Write and maintain detailed user procedures and update SAP training documentation.
• Train organizational process owners on a train-the-trainer basis.
• Prepare and maintain process flow diagrams for educational purposes.
• Monitor and address help desk requests, which include user inquiries, immediate process change needs, and data issues or errors.
• Take the lead in the knowledge area for larger, long-term business system projects.

SAP Specific

• Maintain SAP configuration in the IMG.
• Test and implement configuration changes.
• Conduct ongoing SAP end-user training for new employees and employees changing roles.
• Maintain SAP-related Issue/resolution status.
• Troubleshoot SAP system functionality problems.
• Identify data inconsistencies, provide reports to users, and work with them to help resolve erroneous data within the system.
• Submit OSS Notes to SAP. Recommend application of relevant SAP-provided OSS notes, patches, etc.
• Tests and implements results.
• Evaluate, test, and implements SAP system software upgrades, i.e., Hot Packs, new releases, etc.
• Write detailed specifications for enhancement requests which require programming such as output documents, ABAP reports, interfaces to/from external systems, data conversion, and user exits for special program processes.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of SAP analyst experience.
• 3-5 years general financial business experience.
• Experience with both ECC and S/4 HANA.
• At least one year of experience in setting up IMG configurations in SAP.
• Demonstrated expertise in functional and technical knowledge of SAP FI/CO.
• Strong interpersonal relationship skills.
• Able to manage multiple issues and requests at one time.