Senior Business Analyst, SAP VC

*Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

This Senior Lead SAP Product Configurator VC (Variant Configurator) Business System Analyst is responsible for all aspects relating to our SAP VC Product Configurator models and application, including (and not limited to) fully understanding the capabilities and limitations of the native SAP functional solution as well as providing module configuration and analysis and support. This position will work closely with business subject matter experts as well as others within the SAP Center of Excellence to ensure strong alignment between the business requirements/needs and the application solutions/services. Candidate role is responsible for developing and delivering effective VC specific solutions for our business which leverages SAP and industry standard best practices. Experience and knowledge of the SAP IM&C Best Business Practice is a plus.

Key Accountabilities

• Help design product model architecture to ensure best balance of maintainability, scalability, and system performance.
• Work closely with offshore VC product modeling teams to ensure alignment.
• Facilitate business process and master data alignment with SAP best practices for VC.
• Gather, validate, and document VC product model specifications from product experts at business units. Efforts include interviewing experts and facilitating requirements workshops; ability to translate those requirements into a finished SAP product model.
• Thorough cycle testing; unit testing, regression testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Assist team members and business users with problem solving related to the software application, performance and usage.
• Provide functional specifications for enhancements, interfaces, forms, and reports to support VC business requirements and/or legacy applications.
• Ability to ensure strong alignment between the business requirements/needs and the application solutions/services.
• Work closely and effectively with super-users and end-users to develop a strong SAP user community.

Job Requirements

• Bachelors and/or Masters degree or equivalent experience.
• Deep hands-on VC model building experience within a complex manufacturing environment- 8+ years.
• A functional/technical professional with 2+ full lifecycle SAP R/3 implementations.
• Advanced SAP ECC 6.0 VC knowledge and experience.
• Thorough understanding of all aspects of a variant configuration product model including classes, characteristics, configuration profiles, ALE, tables, variant pricing, functions, dependency nets with constraints, BOM class nodes, preconditions, selection conditions, procedures, complex super bills of material and routes and work centers.
• Expertise in Order BOM and Engineering Change Management (ECM) is very helpful.
• Has deep functional understanding of SAP Variant Configuration software, best practices, and relevant cross-functional knowledge of SD, MM, PP, FI/CO SAP modules and the integration points with VC.
• Help design product model architecture to ensure best balance of maintainability, scalability, and system performance.
• Work closely with offshore VC product modeling teams to ensure alignment.
• Facilitate business process and master data alignment with SAP best practices for VC.
• Gather, validate, and document VC product model specifications from product experts at business units. Efforts include interviewing experts and facilitating requirements workshops; ability to translate those requirements into a finished SAP product model.
• Thorough cycle testing; unit testing, regression testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Proven capability to influence business teams by understanding requirements and describing the standard SAP business processes.
• Experience defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Able to collaborate with business users; identify engagement, follow–on opportunities, and have a strong desire to excel.
• Strong functional, communication and organization skills, with a proven ability to effectively meet deadlines and milestones as well as provide timely updates.
• Excellent problem identifying and solving aptitude with strong configuration and design skills with acute attention to detail.
• Proven ability to provide configuration and analysis support for the VC module with complete understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the native SAP functional solution.
• Provide functional sp