Sr Business Analyst - SAP MM

Be part of a growing, successful company in an exciting and challenging field. Border States is 100% employee-owned, which means you’re empowered to make decisions, find solutions and receive rewards for your hard work.
 
This position will be located in: Fargo , ND  

 

Additional Requirements

• Working knowledge of Interfaces (IDOCS, EDI, XML, etc.) with other SAP and non-SAP systems and middleware

• SAP MM Process and Configuration Knowledge

• Good oral & written communication skills

• Good understanding of Material stock movements

• Good understanding of pricing conditions

• Good understanding of Sales Order Process

• Good understanding of Procurement 

• Experience in writing Test Plans/Test Scripts/Test Strategies

• Experience in SAP Purchase order Management, Pricing, Release Strategy, Supplier collaboration tools

• Ability to understand integration points to SD, MM, PP, FI/CO in the required areas

• Ability to convert business needs into technical requirements

• Good organizational and prioritizing skills

• Requirement gathering and Business process design
• Self-Starter
• Ability to build interpersonal relations with all the levels of the organization

 

 

Preferred Experience

• Understanding of, SOAP and WSDL concepts
• Understanding of OData

• Experience with Fiori

• Experience with CDS Views and understanding SQL joins

• Exposure to S4 HANA

• Ability to navigate ABAP code, debug and identify bugs

 

 

Job Summary

Supports the day-to-day operations of the IT Applications Department in developing and implementing integrated processes within our business applications in cooperation with the business needs. Works as a leader on the IT Applications Team to determine how technology can best be used to enable or enhance business processes. Maintains and supports SAP ERP application. Leads complex technology projects through the entire project lifecycle to their conclusion while maintaining high customer satisfaction and ensuring cross-project requirements are identified and detailed for cohesive design and end user experience. Provides guidance and design direction to teams and departments to meet business needs. Proactively researches, recommends, and assists in implementation of emerging technologies and/or vendor solutions as they relate to company’s best practices.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Collaborates with business, development and other analyst teams to write technical and functional documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, and corrections; including end user documentation (training) to describe new or enhanced functionality.
• Reviews, analyzes, modifies, writes and/or executes thorough change request test plans and checklists to ensure that business system changes are working properly, existing processes remain unaffected and the needs of the users are met.
• Identifies, tracks, monitors and communicates on project-related issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies that occur during projects.
• Provides consultation of advanced technical expertise in the integrated business applications processes. 
• Collaborates, leads and directs work effort of vendors (both on and offsite). 
• Provides vendor performance feedback and validation of expenditures to IT management. 
• Proactively researches, recommends, and assists in implementation of emerging technologies and/or vendor solutions as they relate to company’s best practices.
• Communicates best practices across areas of responsibility and participates in continuous improvement of IT processes. 
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with customers, vendors, and others related to the company.
• Actively participates in team meetings and group discussions. 
• Provides guidance to team to create high quality functional business requirements. 
• Provides guidance and design direction to teams and departments to resolve functionality and implementation issues.
• Adheres to Border States Electric SDLC best practice guidelines and application change management procedure. 
• Follows security best practices to ensure the safety and integrity of applications.
• Provides input on the development of best practices for the IT organization. 
• Provides support by working escalated incidents as part of the IT Help Desk to ensure business operations are not interrupted or delayed and during off hours as needed.