BA - SAP FICO

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION JOB TITLE: Business Analyst (BA), Financial Accounting and Controlling (FICO) JOB SUMMARY: 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. This may be done via SAP ERP, Process Improvement, Robotic Process Automation or through other methods. 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. Qualifications: Requires a Bachelor's degree in the field of business administration, computer science, finance, information systems, or similar field, or equivalent experience. A minimum of 3 - 5 year's experience as a Business Analyst / Functional consultant required. Experience with supporting and enhancing SAP S/4HANA preferred. Experience in the Finance and Controlling modules is required. Costing experience 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 dependable and punctual. Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as per business needs. Shift Hours: For positions working Indian hours: 8:30am to 5:15pm (IST) These timings are subject to change as per Company's business requirements.