Senior Business Systems Expert

Job Title: Senior Business Systems Analyst, SAP

Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our team. As a key member of our IT department, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, and implementation of business processes and software applications.

About the Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to work with our senior application team members to ensure the efficiency of existing processes while designing enhancements and extensions that align technology with key business needs. You will possess deep expertise in business activities and processes within the designated functional area and effectively partner with business teams to ensure IT solutions deliver measurable value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Process Implementation & Enhancement: Collaborate with business stakeholders and senior IT resources to analyze existing business processes, gather new requirements, develop functional process designs, and define reporting needs to support management oversight.
• Process Knowledge & Impact Assessment: Maintain expertise in current process standards within the designated function. With guidance from senior application team members, evaluate the impact of process changes on the existing environment.
• Testing & Validation: Translate business requirements, functional designs, and business scenarios into comprehensive test plans to validate business processes before implementation. Conduct detailed unit testing to ensure technical solutions align with functional requirements. Work with business stakeholders and senior IT members to ensure integration testing covers all business process variations. Facilitate business user acceptance, identify impacts on related processes, and perform regression testing as needed.

Operating Environment

• Business Process Support: Ensure critical business processes within the area of specialization function effectively by maintaining the application platform's ability to deliver required business capabilities. Resolve production issues promptly while adhering to IT protocols and standards.
• Documentation & Process Design: Develop and maintain documentation for business process design, including high-level overviews, detailed functional specifications, and visual aids such as process flows. Regularly update documentation as processes evolve, tailoring content to the appropriate audience.
• Training & Knowledge Sharing: Conduct training sessions for business users on new process implementations. Share best practices across the organization to ensure effective and efficient use of software applications.
• Process & System Enhancements: Lead the implementation of routine process changes and system enhancements under the guidance of senior IT resources. Understand project management methodologies and the business analyst's role in the software development lifecycle.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong working relationships with key business users and managers to ensure alignment between IT solutions and business needs.

Business Partnering

• Stakeholder Collaboration & IT Liaison: Establish strong, collaborative relationships with multiple business stakeholders, serving as a clear point of contact within IT. Manage expectations and act as a bridge between IT and the business, ensuring alignment on technology-driven initiatives.
• Technology Initiative Intake & Roadmap Development: Play a key role in the intake and prioritization of business technology initiatives. Partner with business stakeholders, IT Solution Architects, and IT Leadership to define the IT/Business initiatives roadmap and advance initiatives through the project intake and assessment process.
• Maximizing IT Services for Business Value: Understand IT service offerings and collaborate with IT Leadership and business stakeholders to optimize their use, ensuring technology initiatives are prioritized based on their potential business impact.
• Strategic IT Alignment: Work closely with IT Enterprise Architecture and IT Leadership to ensure business technology initiatives align with the organization's overall IT strategy.
• Project Execution & Governance: Engage with implementation partners and project managers to provide oversight on project status, issues, and changes. Ensure project requirements are well-documented, clearly understood, and approved by all relevant stakeholders.

Requirements

• Fully competent in the principles and practices of Business Analysis
• Maintains current knowledge of business and technological trends
• Flexibility in work schedule, off-hours for project implementation
• Travel via plane or automobile both locally and internationally
• Work Experience Requirements
• Number of Overall Years Necessary: 8-12
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a related business function
• A minimum of 5 years of experience business process analysis and design

Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business Systems, or a related field.

Specialized Skills/Technical Knowledge

• Comprehensive Application Expertise: Possesses in-depth enterprise-wide knowledge of applications within the designated business function, encompassing business process configuration, key module integration points, cross-application integrations, master data management, and transactional execution.
  • Cost Center Accounting: Expertise in cost center planning, actuals management, cost allocations, and cost center reporting, including month-end and year-end closing activities. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Product Costing: In-depth knowledge of product costing for both manufactured and purchased products, encompassing key master data elements such as Bills of Material (BOM) and routings, along with associated closing processes. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Production Accounting: Extensive experience in accounting for production activities using production orders, including material consumption postings, overhead absorption, variance analysis, order settlements, and reporting, with a focus on month-end and year-end closing processes. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Inventory Accounting: Proficiency in managing inventory-related transactions and their financial impact on the Profit & Loss statement and Balance Sheet, ensuring accurate month-end and year-end closing. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Profit Centers: Strong understanding of profit center structures and their role in driving management reporting within a manufacturing environment. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Expertise in the end-to-end flow of sales transactions into Profitability Analysis, including the configuration and management of derivation rules that drive data flow into profitability segments and enable advanced reporting. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
• Industry and Technology Awareness: Continuously monitors emerging business trends and technological advancements, integrating relevant developments to address business challenges effectively.

Expertise in essential desktop applications, including Visio for process flow diagrams and Excel/Access for large-scale data analysis.Strong understanding of business requirements elicitation techniques such as use cases, prototyping, and questionnaires, applying the most suitable approach based on the context and audience.
Financial And Analytical Acumen

• Proficient in conducting basic cost-benefit analyses for low-complexity process enhancements.
• Strong analytical skills to assess business needs, develop viable solutions, and articulate the business and technical implications of proposed changes.

Business Partnering And Solution Alignment

• Effectively collaborates with stakeholders to align business needs with technology solutions, ensuring the delivery of tangible business value.

Communication And Documentation Skills

• Verbal Communication: Adept at conveying complex business processes and technical concepts in clear, business-friendly language, avoiding unnecessary technical jargon. Ensures mutual understanding through active listening, paraphrasing, and adapting communication style as needed.
• Written Communication: Skilled in documenting intricate business processes and technical details using precise business terminology. Enhances comprehension with visual aids such as process flows and decision tables to supplement explanations.

Hollister Incorporated is committed to creating a positive and inclusive workplace culture. We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package and a comprehensive benefits program. Our employees enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development, as well as a supportive and dynamic work environment. If you are passionate about delivering exceptional results and making a meaningful impact, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Please note that only qualified candidates will be contacted for further consideration. Thank you for your interest in joining our team

EOE Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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