Business Analyst - SAP FICO Consultant - Manufacturing

Designation: Business Analyst ( SAP FICO Consultant).

Location: Ahmedabad.

Experience Range: 4+ yrs.

Job Profile:

- The BA, FICO will be responsible for analyzing the business needs of the operations area with the primary purpose of eliciting high-level requirements, capturing business needs, identifying problems, and proposing solutions.

- This role will work with business partners to elicit high-level requirements and capture business needs to understand technology solutions needed; understand the customer journey and define user requirements.

- In addition, they will promote architectural consistency and usability standards as well as defining and executing test cases.

- The BA will work with the business partners and the information technology staff to identify technologies to improve business processes.

- The BA, FICO will work as a liaison between the IT department and the assigned business units to analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business process and policies.

- In addition, the BA will focus on improving how the business operates by applying best practices to the individual business area within SAP.

Key Duties:

- Identify business process improvement opportunities.

- Productively working with and influencing the business area.

- Participate in future SAP Discover, Build, Test and Deploy activities.

- Identify and define business requirements with outcome criteria and metrics.

- Map business processes.

- Identify and resolve issues.

- Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to project team and implementation consultants.

- Maintain training documentation.

- Train users on proper usage of the SAP system.

- Ability and willingness to travel within the United States and internationally to support future SAP deployments.

Travel Requirement:

- This position is based in our Technology Centre located in downtown Ahmedabad and will require an initial on-site visit (at our manufacturing and office complex in Sanand) of at least 2 weeks as well as a potential trip to Ohio, USA for 4-6 weeks to learn the company's global SAP configuration.

- There is also an expectation that potential 2-week trips will be made for training/localization purposes to our international locations and additional- 2-week trips at go-live for on-site support and hyper care.

- Periodic trips of one or two weeks to Sanand will be needed depending on the project needs.

Qualifications:

- Requires a Bachelor' degree in the field of business administration, computer science, finance, information systems, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.

- A minimum of 3-5 years' experience as a Business Analyst preferred.

- Experience with supporting and enhancing SAP S/4HANA preferred.

- Experience with FICO is strongly preferred.

- Broad IT domain experience, preferably in three or more of the following areas: Applications Development, Enterprise Architecture, Project Management, Vendor Management, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Maintenance and Support.

- Familiarity with business structure and operations outside of IT.

- Must have above-average ability to communicate both in writing and orally.

- Must be self-motivated to work independently.

- Must be able to drive collaboration among different personalities and departments.

- Experience in converting business requirements and functional requirements to use cases and user stories with acceptance criteria.

- Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes.

- Must be willing to work "unusual" hours when required.

- Must be dependable and punctual.

- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally on occasion.

Shift Hours:

US hours:- 2:30 pm to 11:30 pm IST.

Company Profile:

- Since its founding more than 60 years ago, the company- has grown into a global company and leading producer of monolithic refractory ceramics.

- They serve multiple industries with a commitment to providing exceptional service and top-quality refractories and precast shapes.