One of our Government clients is looking for a Technical Business Analyst - SAP ERP project exp.
Length: 10 months Contract with possibility of extension
Location: Remote, Canada
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Requirements:
PROJECT SUMMARY:
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Transformation Project is reimagining the way we facilitate our core finance, supply chain, and human resources functions. It will provide increased opportunity to streamline, automate and align processes with leading practices through the use of modernized enterprise-class ERP technologies.
We are seeking a Business Analyst (BA) with experience in complex large-scale SAP ERP project implementations (Focus on Finance Functional Areas) to supplement the ERP Business Analyst Team and be the conduit between Information Technology (IT) and the business for our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Transformation.
Reporting to the ERP Senior BA, the BA resource will partner with the business to identify, analysis and document business requirements for ERP transformation projects. This includes, researching, reviewing, and analyzing the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements to new ERP capabilities. The BA will identify, document, and analyze requirements, document solutions, allocate requirements and make recommendations to achieve the desired future state with the new ERP workflow and solution. The BA will develop test plans, support testing and assists with User Acceptance Testing processes. The BA will be responsible to manage and communicate changes, enhancements, modifications, and progression throughout various phases of the project life cycle to key stakeholders within IT and the functional business area.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
This role is responsible for identifying, gathering, analyzing, specifying, and validating the business needs of end-users in a particular area of the business, and for IT projects or initiatives. These include interviewing stakeholders, capturing the "to-be" state, process improvements, and identifying the associated business requirements. These results convey to the Architecture, Change Management and Quality Assurance teams the breadth and nature of the end users' needs and environment, thereby driving their solution design, change management and testing efforts.
Facilitate requirements gathering and validation workshops
Develop and document project visions and approach
Analyze and define business requirements for determining roles relationships and data structures to meet business security privacy and operational requirements
Analyze and define data and information requirements needed to address business requirements used by data modelers and architects responsible for developing logical and physical data models and/or analyzing and designing class models to meet business requirements
Work with business clients and technical teams on the design development and implementation of business applications
Document, analyze, and manage business requirements
Develop business cases
Produce deliverables within specified quality standards
Escalate issues and risks as appropriate
Prepare and execute tasks in accordance with a defined project plan
Review and provide input on test strategies plans and test cases to ensure they adequately cover the defined business requirements
Execute tasks in accordance with control processes, including schedule management, status-reporting issues, risk and change management at the project and or program level
Attend necessary meetings to review schedule, status, issues, risk, and change management
Support project team members in the analysis of issues
Prepare status reports, meeting minutes, change requests, and other documents
Undertake management detailing tasks and review the timelines associated with the execution of those tasks
Conduct analysis of existing documentation
Document current processes through participation in and/or facilitate brainstorming sessions or workshops with stakeholders
Ideate and facilitate discussion to document the conceptual target state processes to address gaps and pain points identified in the current state
Perform research and conduct data gathering exercises to support options and recommendations
Collaborate cross functionally to develop options and recommendations to meet a business objective
Gather requirements and document detailed business requirements, use cases and user stories
Elicit, document, validate and prioritize functional and non-functional system requirements in collaboration with business clients, end users and project stakeholders
Qualifications:
MUST HAVES:
Experience gathering, analyzing, validating, verifying, documenting and approving process flows/requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases scenarios, business cases, business analysis, client meetings and business process modeling
Experience working closely with business clients and business areas and performing the following activities:
Interviewing business clients
planning, executing and supporting requirements
triaging user requirement issues/problems
translating conceptual user requirements into functional requirements and non-functional requirements that is comprehensible to various team members including technical teams, solution/data architects and various project team members
Experience working on concurrent projects spanning multiple business areas, business processes and technical environments
Experience in developing/reviewing test strategies, test cases, test scripts, test plans, conducting System Integration Testing, conducting User Acceptance Testing and leading testing
Experience in defect management, logging, tracking and resolution during System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing phases and using defect management tool(s)
Experience with process map/models development, specifications, diagrams and charts to clarify and validate processes with the business and guide development and implementation teams
Experience with risk management, issues management and change management.
Experience with ERP implementation preferably SAP solution
Experience in Finance business area
NICE TO HAVES:
Experience with planning, creating, organizing, scheduling, prioritizing and executing business analysis activities including approval process throughout project (i.e. BA Plan etc.)
Experience with facilitating requirements gathering sessions and documenting requirements to understand business and technology changes in order to support execution of change management, business readiness, business process changes, business workflow/rule development, data definition development, project planning and project execution activities
Define measurable evaluation criteria to assess the success of the change (i.e. User Stories, Use Cases, acceptance criteria)
Experience with developing and documenting a traceability matrix to ensure requirements are complete and identify requirements relationships to the solution to ensure the solution meets business requirements
Make decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues and without formal guidelines or precedents. Exercise resourcefulness and ingenuity to interpret policy
Experience in establishing methods and tools to support documenting current and future business requirements through working with the business clients/users to ratify and develop sound understanding and knowledge of the business requirements, ensuring that they are clearly documented.
Experience developing and documenting system users access and training documentation
Analyze and define business requirements for determining roles, relationships and data structures to meet business, security, privacy, training and operational requirements.
Lead and/or assist in developing, reviewing and updating of project deliverables, including but not limited to:
- use case, business, process, data, physical and/or other models;
- business requirements;
- stakeholder assessment;
- functional requirements;
- technical requirements;
- operational requirements;
- organizational change management;
- work plans.
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