Business Analyst (SAP) - Junior

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