Senior SAP Analyst III

Key responsibilities:

• Serve as an  interface with a  customer sub-group within a business unit or functional area such as Sales, Operations, Engineering, Service and Finance for the purpose of business technology alignment, solution discovery, service management, project portfolio management and relationship management.
•  Analyzes business requirements or issues, converts analysis to functional specifications, and designs solutions to meet cross functional business requirements or resolve issues.  Perform and document software application configuration, prepare and execute testing  scenarios and scripts (unit, integration, performance, regression acceptance) and  data conversions. 
• Provides  business application functional support services  to meet performance, availability, customer service level agreement, and customer satisfaction targets. Monitors specific IT systems or set of systems for availability, performance and capabilities and reports anomalies through predefined process. Oversees and/or completes root cause analysis and resolution of complex outages  or incident trends working with infrastructure and technical teams, support providers and application vendors. Recommends and executes required corrective actions.   Participate in evaluation and recommendation of patches, point releases, major upgrades and new systems.
• Delivers project and support services in area of responsibility within allocated budget. May be responsible for development of budgets for small to mid size projects and/or for timely renewal of maintenance and subscription contracts.
• Adheres to and guides junior staff and contingent workers to adhere to GIS project management, software application development, testing, service management, change management, RCA  and other relevant processes, standards, governance and controls.  May manage execution of sox controls and testing, and support internal and external audits.
• Plan and manage  small to medium zied business application  projects  to ensure effective and efficient execution in line with  guardrails of scope, timeline, budget and quality. May serve as a team lead on a larger, complex project.
• Oversees/manages contingent workers performing project and/or support services. Responsible for the selection, on boarding and off boarding of contingent workers in a timely manner. Mange contingent worker project/task assignments and ensure work product quality. Approves contingent worker time sheets/cost.

Functional Knowledge:

• Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.

Business Expertise:

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.

Leadership:

•  Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.

Problem Solving:

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

Impact:

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.

Job Description

Functional Analyst - Business Planning and analytics

• Work with the business to define business processes and support user acceptance test and issue resolution

• Collaborate with IT cross functional teams to design, build, test, and document planning and analytics processes and solutions

• Perform knowledge transfer to production support team and provide 3rd tie support

• Conduct product, design solution assessment and support project plan and effort estimation process

• Provide guidance to contingent workers and support capacity plan

Must Have:

• 3+ years SAP BPC NetWeaver Classic project implementation experience

• 5+ years of hands on SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) planning and analytics implementation, with project experience of migrating BPC to SAC

• Functional analyst with solid functional knowledge of finance, SOP, ops, inventory planning processes and manufacturing industry process flows

• Self-motivated and take initiative to drive deliverables, collaborate with onsite and offshore teams.

Strongly Preferred:

• Integration knowledge with SAP S4 Hana, embedded analytics, core data service, SAP ECC 6.0

• User experience with Hadoop, Databricks,