DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business requirements.
• Research and exploration of user requirements, costs, and benefits in support of documentation required for the demand management process.
• Responsible for analyzing the business needs to identify new processes and process improvements that will meet those needs.
• Documents current business processes and models to define requirements and/or gaps.
• Analyze detailed system factors including input/output requirements, information and paper flow, hardware, and software needs.
• Analyze “soft" system factors including roles, responsibilities, policy, culture, etc.
• Evaluate the impact of potential software and process changes on the organization.
• Develop and facilitate groups as necessary in pursuit of eliciting and defining requirements.
• Assist in the creation of the business case documentation.
• Understanding of architectural consistency and usability standards.
• Defines and develops user test cases and validates test results during testing.
• Executes unit and functional test cases.
• May conduct system demonstrations and training sessions, as well as participate in design/review of training content.
• Plays a third level support role by helping to troubleshoot and resolve issues with production systems.
• Participates in associate meetings and communicates any concerns to management.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience leading data migration requirements from legacy systems into a new ERP (Sage X3) environment
• Strong hands-on expertise in requirements elicitation, documentation, and management, with emphasis on data mapping, transformation rules, and validation
• Deep understanding of data structures, data quality, and migration best practices, with the ability to identify gaps and risks early
• Self-driven and accountable professional with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to drive outcomes with minimal oversight
• Working knowledge of Confluence and JIRA.
• Experience in any of the following business areas is desired: Sales operations, order entry, accounting, finance, procurement, warehouse operations, order management, and order fulfillment.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ business analysis or systems analysis experience is preferred.
• Bonus: Sage X3 experience (ERP).
Associate is expected to operate at a proficient level across the following areas of technical knowledge and skill:
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Detail oriented, proactive, creative, and efficient
• Intermediate level abilities in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
• Familiarity with application integration methods to include understanding of data mapping process.
• Ability to effectively work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to work on simultaneous and complex projects, with domain expertise in at least one business area.
• Expertise in ERP solution selection and implementation is a plus
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written format
• Ability to work with all levels of associates
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic environment
• Ability to learn new systems and tools
• Knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Active listener
• Effective in a variety of formal/informal presentation settings: one-on-one, small, and large groups.
Job Title: SAP Developer/Global Support Manager
Location: REMOTE
Duration: 12 Months
Scope of the project:
The Client has implemented the following modules of SAP across all agencies: FI, MM, HR, Payroll, SRM, CRM, and Treasury Management. The implementation of SAP began in November 2007 with the FI and MM modules. The Client’s Office (STO) is planning to retire the existing Legacy systems, in addition to continuing to optimize the Treasury Management and Investment modules of SAP. This will include a system-wide upgrade to the S/4HANA platform. To assist in the implementation of this project, DEA requires the services of a SAP Functional Consultant with extensive experience in developing business requirements, configuring treasury functionality in SAP, developing test case/scenarios, developing training materials, providing training and implementing the investment and/or debt functionality of the Treasury modules of SAP.
The Consultant will assist the Business Functional Leads, Client Teams and Stakeholders for these projects coordinating the development of the functional design specifications necessary to meet the technical and business requirements. The Consultant must have extensive experience in developing business blueprints, configuring treasury functionality in SAP, and creating requirements documents, test cases/scenarios and training materials. The Consultant must also be able to assist in the design of reports and dashboards. The Consultant will assist in defining the data to be extracted from SAP for the development of reports. It is desired that the Consultant have experience in the development of interfaces with brokers, banks and other financial service providers. The Consultant will coordinate activities with SAP consultants, the Office of Information Technology Services (OTIS) and Client Team as necessary to ensure decisions, recommendations and work products are in compliance with best practices and established standards.
Daily duties/responsibilities:
- Provides SAP functional expertise to the SAP Client Team.
- Interacts with business users through interviews, status & planning meetings, review of policies/ procedures manuals, etc., and translates daily/monthly/year-end activities into business requirements.
- Creates and presents proto-types (provides demonstrates) to business users for implementation of out-of-the-box and custom investment, functionality required to replicate and/or improve these work activities.
- Works collaboratively with business and technical personnel to obtain agreement and approval of proposed design/business requirements.
- Once approved, creates functional design specification documents and obtains final approval by all parties.
- Coordinates with STO and Client Team to configure SAP to provide the functionality in the functional specification documents.
- Works closely with Development Team to assist and support development and testing of activities requiring custom development.
- Coordinates with STO’s IT Division, the SC Division of Technology Operations and Client to define all technical requirements necessary to create test environments needed to properly test and implement the investment functionality in SAP.
- Works closely with ABAP and BASIS Teams and project managers at Client and STO to conduct testing, transmit changes through the appropriate release management processes to production to ensure minimal issues and optimal performance.
- Provides support to technical/reporting team to create universes, data structures, and to improve and streamline processes regarding data flow and data quality to improve data accuracy, viability and value.
- Provides extensive knowledge transfer sessions for IT and business users to ensure functionality and reporting solutions can be created, modified and maintained by STO at the end of this engagement.
- Reports to the Client Treasury Team Lead or Client Director.
Additional duties:
- Must have the ability to translate complex business requirements into technical and functional specifications and ultimately into project deliverables.
- Must have extensive experience developing business blueprint documents used by development staff to configure, program and test functionality.
- Must have a sound knowledge of reporting and analytics principles, theories, concepts and techniques to support creation of reports/dashboards for investment functionality.
- Must have a sound knowledge of how to create interfaces with banks and other financial organizations/institutions.
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills.
- Must have experience providing training to functional and technical personnel on the investment functionality in SAP.
- Must have a sound working knowledge of other treasury management functionality in sap including cash management.
- Must be able to configure SAP investment functionality.
- Performs other tasks as directed by the STO project manager.
Preferred skills (rank in order of importance):
Master’s degree preferred.
Required education:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics, Engineering or related discipline.
Experience:
- Ten years of experience implementing SAP is required.
- Experience Implementing Investment SAP in at least four large organizations is required.
- At least one of these organizations must be a state, federal or county (public sector) organization.
- Must be able to develop high quality business blueprint documents.
- This position requires technical and business knowledge in multiple treasury management disciplines/processes in order to avoid rework on later implementations of cash and debt management.
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