Job Description
Job Title: Business Analyst (SAP) - Junior
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Work Model: Hybrid
Duration: 12 months
Extension: 6 months
Must Haves
- A minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in SAP Finance or related roles, including experience in system implementation and end-user support.
- Extensive SAP business analyst project related experience
- Proficiency in SAP Financial Modules (FI, CO) and an understanding of SAP integration with other systems.
- Public Sector Experience: Must Have
Description / Responsibilities / Skills
Project Description
- Major business transformation of financial system driven by SAP S4/HANA implementation to enable future-state financial processes.
- Business Analysts will be part of the hypercare team supporting the Record to Report stream of S/4HANA.
- Will work primarily on the defect resolution process, identifying mitigation strategies etc.
- Will support work on items deferred from the initial go-live including prioritization, development, design, configuration, testing.
Qualifications
- Completion of a professional accounting designation or a Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Experience participating in core project areas: solution scoping, requirements analysis, gap analysis, feasibility, functional design, testing, production.
Experience & Skill Set Requirements
Qualifications
- Completion of a professional accounting designation or a Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience in accounting or financial management.
- Extensive experience in municipal accounting or relevant private sector experience in financial accounting and reporting.
- Strong understanding of financial principles and business processes.
- Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA is highly required.
- Experience with reporting tools such as SAP Fiori.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
- Proven skills in team collaboration and stakeholder management.
- Experience preparing and maintaining associated project documentation as necessary
- Experience participating in the deployment of the new business processes including end user training and transition to support Team
- Experience working closely with end users to ensure a common understanding of day-to-day operational processes
- Experience assisting with SAP End User training to all relevant stakeholders
- Experience preparing functional specs for all system changes, working with developers where necessary
- Experience participating in the following core project areas: solution scoping, requirements analysis, gap analysis, feasibility, functional design, testing, production
Assignment of Duties
- Document Business Requirements and Functional/Detail Requirements
- Review and provide input to business requirements.
- Prepare and maintain associated project documentation as necessary
- Create test plans, training materials and system documentation for internal and external clients
- Prepare and maintain SAP business process documentation as necessary and use the SAP business process repository
- Participate in project planning, change management, communications, testing, training, go live and post go live support activities
- Ensure that financial systems adhere to regulatory standards and internal policies.
- Mitigate risks by recommending controls within SAP systems.
- Identify inefficiencies within financial workflows and recommend improvements enabled by SAP.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize operations.
- Analyze complex data and convert business needs into technical solutions.
Deliverables
- Functional specs for development objects
- Test plans, test cases, use cases, user stories, scenarios and results documents;
- Documentation of various types of tests (unit, functional, integration, system, regression, penetration, performance and user acceptance testing);
- Process and configuration documentation
- Options documents to support decision making by project leadership
- Key decision documents
- Other analyses and reports for Management as needed;
- Input for training and sustainment model
- Documentation of issues and risks
- Other deliverables as directed by management
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