Description
ERP Business Analyst - 9088- Contract - Bedfordshire - £60 - £65 P/H
The position requires the successful applicant to manage and support a comprehensive SAP environment for the business area. The selected candidate will manage a team of technical professionals covering ABAP Development, SAP Basis Database Administration, SAP Security, and SAP Business Process Configuration
Key responsibilities:
- Designing, developing, implementing and controlling the SAP ERP module areas to meet global and local legal/business requirements.
- Ensuring all core business requirements are maintained, new business needs are proactively supported, and new SAP functionality delivers business benefits.
- Assuring comprehensive regression testing is completed before changes are released to the production environments.
- Collaborate with other IT and functional team members to maintain/apply coherent, optimized, integrated, and standardized processes.
- Oversee the preparation of comprehensive life cycle documentation required for all SAP support aspects (functional specs, technical spec, data maps, test plans, training documents, interface control documents, job schedules, etc.)
- Work with internal customers to assess new work and deliver existing projects. Technical leadership of the entire implementation effort during all project stages
- Assuring compliance with all local and corporate regulatory requirements (MoD, Corporate Information Security)
- Identifying process specific risks and developing measures to ensure risks are adequately mitigated.
- Controlling and evaluating interface and conversion process risks from an operational and systems perspective.
- Collaborating with Information Security resources to ensure control decisions are factored into business process design.
- Planning, organizing and conducting SAP demonstrations and workshops for key stakeholders, customers, and management.
- Prepare training plans per agreed upon control solutions.
- Ability to support on-call and off-shift work schedules.
- Assess new requirements with clients, hosting workshops to elicit requirements, overseeing the production of requirements
- Managing projects in line with internal processes, giving feedback to colleagues and management
- Provides direction to subordinates based on general policies and management guidance.
- Review Work upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives. Recommends modifications to operating policies.
Skills/Experience:
- Experience with the SAP ERP 6.0, Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry, and other related SAP solutions.
- Experience implementing solutions for Manufacturing and Shop Floor environments.
- Experience with SAP User Experience (UX) technologies - Fiori/UI5, SAP Screen Personas, ABAP WebDynPro, custom SAPGUI-based ABAP screens.
- Experience with the ABAP Programming and Workbench environment.
- Experience with interface technologies - BAPIs, IDOCs, EDI, LSMWs, Odata, SAP Gateway, RFCs.
- Working knowledge of several ERP business functional areas (FICO, MM, QM, PP, PM, PS).
- Experience with SAP custom development techniques and output technologies (User Exits, Enhancements, Smart Forms, SAPScript).
- SAP project and change management experience.
- Experience with managing a technical support team.
- Effective verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
Desired Skills:
Standard Job Description:
Applies functional knowledge to the design and customization of SAP or PeopleSoft Client Server application to meet the company's requirements and system's needs. Understands content, processes, and procedures associated with implementing enterprise applications. Writes functional requirements, develops test plans, and works with production issues. Works with developers to ensure requirements are being met. At higher levels, serves as subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures associated with implementing enterprise applications.
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Typical Minimum Education & Experience:
Ideally require Bachelor's degree from an accredited college and capability typically achieved through extensive professional experience. Will also consider individuals with equivalent experience/combined education.
Considered an expert, authority in discipline.
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