SAP Business Analyst

Our client has an immediate need for a Business Analyst for a 12-month contract assignment for the plant in the Greenville, SC area. Responsibilities to include business process analysis, cost/benefit analysis, design and simulation for small to medium sized projects, requires a high-level understanding of the organization's business processes and requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Partner with business units to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements such as forms of data input, how data is to be processed, and how the results will be managed.
- Expert in current as-is process and works with the business to define the to-be process,
- Review and analyze system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system - identifies and differentiates system configuration from programming solutions.
- Write detailed functional specifications for program development
- Perform and document system configuration
- Coordinate system interface design and development
- Prepare/coordinate technical reports, process documentation, test plans, training needs assessment, and implementation plans.
- Support Department Manager, Process IT with the management of specific elements of projects to schedule following systems development methodology; accountable for efficient and maintainable results that meet business requirements.
- Research, coordinate feasibility studies and makes recommendations on process changes and automation in support of improving business processes and cost savings.
- Create process change by integrating new processes with existing ones.
- Recommend and facilitate quality improvement efforts.
- Develop project plans, administers the change control process and ensures that tasks are completed on time and within budget.
- Prepare business process mapping and function design.
- Prepare identification of gaps in the business process.
- Analyze business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
- Translate high level business requirements into functional specifications for IT development.
- Serve as a liaison between the business and development to ensure the technical solution meets the business needs as delegated by the Department Process IT.

REQUIREMENTS:

- BA or BS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology
- Solid knowledge of the SAP MM/WM module
- 3 + years of project leadership or system responsibility experience in an IT environment

3 + years of experience as Systems Analysis 3 + years of experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment