Brady - Senior Business Analyst - SAP FICO

GOAL AND OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION:

- The Senior Business Analyst works primarily in the SAP enterprise application. He/she serves as senior subject matter expert associated with content, configuration, processes and procedures associated with SAP.

- The Senior Business Analyst Finance & Controlling will mainly work within SAP FICO and bolt-ons, its integration with SD and MM and in the Brady custom configurations.

- The goal of the team, where he/she is member of, is to implement and configure SAP, to improve, automate, innovate and to support SAP users in all Brady sites in order to use SAP and its bolt-ons more efficient and effectively.

- The Senior Business Analyst Finance & Controlling will mainly focus on the financial side of the commercial processes: AR, AP, GL, AA, PCA, CCA, COPA, invoicing, taxes, reporting

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Maintain an in-depth and current knowledge of processes and systems in area of expertise.

- Consult with business process managers and super users to identify and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, issues, root cause, impact analysis, data scope, usage, formatting and security requirements.

- Quickly understand business needs, challenge where needed and translate that understanding into potential solutions/improvements.

- Discover process/system functionality gaps and derive improvement potentials.

- Perform feasibility studies/solution reviews with a continued focus on process improvement and ensuring common fit with global business needs.

- Work with integration team to design data integrations between product tools and systems, provide testing and assess impact.

- Liaise as required with third parties regarding development and integration.

- Create functional/technical specifications and review them with developers/engineers when unable to handle changes with configuration.

- Document all enhancements, implementations or interfaces (technical and business-level documentation).

- Perform root cause analysis and participate in architecting solutions to solve business challenges.

- Develop, coordinate and implement plans to test processes and configuration assuring quality of any additions, changes or deletions to the system.

- Develop and configure cross-functional solutions and collaborate with SAP Business Analysts in other domains.

- Analyze and document as-is system interfaces and configuration.

- Participate in SAP Rollout projects

- Provide timely response to super user calls and tickets assisting in problem resolution (helpdesk-role).

- Communicate process and system changes to super users and business process managers.

- Consistently builds self-help environment culture through interactions with super users, end users, and business managers.

- Assist with knowledge transfer and training/coaching other IT Business Analysts as needed.

- Increase skills and knowledge by interacting with Service Owners, other BA's and external resources.

- Investigate future system releases, upgrades and enhancements.

- Provide training.

- Other duties assigned as needed.

Experience, education, competencies and skills:

- Minimum Bachelor or University degree in Economics and/or ICT or equivalent by experience.

- Minimum 7 years of directly related experience as SAP FICO Business Analyst with profound knowledge of Finance and Controlling modules in ECC 6.0.

- Good knowledge of and experience with integration between FICO and SD (MM is a plus)

- Experience working in global environment.

- Proven project management skills and presentation skills.

- Demonstrated critical thinking and excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

- Capable of thinking of the big picture and sorting through an ambiguous environment.

- Able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

- Innovation management - good judgement about ideas and suggestions that have likelihood of success, facilitate effective brainstorming.

- Demonstrated experience leading and influencing individuals and teams without formal organizational authority.

- Customer focused in all actions.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate effectively with all levels of business and technical audiences. Comfort around senior management.

- Good probing and listening skills in order to fully understand business needs.

- Ability to handle challenging situations with diplomacy and tact.

- Proactive in identification and mitigation of business/IT risks.

- Ability to work within resource and time constraints.

- Drive for results, hands-on with the necessary flexibility.

- Eager to learn, quickly picks things up.

- Business acumen - strong functional business knowledge for processes included in the service, knowledgeable of current and future strategies, trends, technology.

- Looking for continuous improvement.

- Embraces change and considers it a challenge.

- Positive "can-do" attitude, self-starter.

- Enthusiastic and able to motivate others.