Senior Business Analyst FI/CO

BUSINESS ANALYST (SAP FI/CO)
Duration: 22/01/2018 - 30/06/2018
Location: 2 days in Breda - 2days homeworking - 1 day in Beerse

Purpose of the function
The Business Analyst is part of the Finance team, reporting to the Product Line Owner Finance, within the Pharm Commercial I/T EMEA organization. In the Finance and Deliver domain, Galaxy SAP is the main application for more than 30 MRCs in the region to manage: Account-to-Report, Order to Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes, as well as Legal, Corporate and Management reporting. The Business Analyst role requires a broad understanding of application design and business processes, coupled with skills to manage relationships with the Business and across IT. In his position is supporting the Functional Process Owner for Business process alignment and Implementation of improvements for the process.

Responsibilities Functional solution ownership
* Support Domain/Process owners for Account to report, Invoice to cash, procure to pay, management accounting and Master data.
* Support Domain/Process Owner for all the changes that are implemented for the process on the platform.. Serve as Subject Matter Expert for the functional process. Is able to design lean and effective solutions.
* Strong knowledge on integration within the various SAP modules and able to propose effective integrations with internal and external partners (customer, supplier, logistic providers). Business process alignment
* Expert knowledge of changing business processes and the subsequent impact on applications. Solid knowledge of how processes are adopted and used by different user groups and geographies. Implementation of improvements
* Support Domain/Functional Process Owner throughout the system life cycle of the process and/or cluster. Consulting IT Application Services (AS) during Functional & Technical Design, Build (ABAP, Security), Unit testing and System testing. Supporting Functional Process Owner for User Acceptance testing and Key User training.
* Ability to proper to understand challenge and document complex business requirements as for change to current processes as for new processes
* Ability to design processes in the application in the area of expertise, as configuring the standard functionalities as specifying additional developments in order to meet business requirements
* Clearly understand the potential impact of system design/system change to the integrated SAP modules/interfaces involving respective experts and team
* 5+ years hands-on functional configuration experience with SAP FI (G/L, AA, A/P, A/R) and CO modules: Project Management
* Support Domain/Functional Owner to build a strong business case for new projects: Define project scope, business benefits, project budget and potential risksan advanced degree is desirable.
* Excellent knowledge of the SAP FI CO module and knowledge of the integration points with SAP MM, FI and CO modules.
* Strong knowledge of Order to Cash process in particular and Supply Chain processes in general.
* Experience in Finance requirements gathering; customer interaction, detailed documentation of requirements and functional specifications, creation of process and data flows
* Solid knowledge of formal Change Management and System Development Life Cycle methodologies.
* Strong communication skills and a fluent knowledge of English.
* Experience with interfaces, IDOCs, ABAP and/or SAP authorizations is a plus.
* Knowledge of SOX compliance and/or GMP validation is a plus.
* Good knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other MS Office tools is a must.
* Experience with HP Quality Center is a plus.

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