Analyst Applications- SAP FICO (on-site)

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The Analyst role is a business facing role that will engage with leaders across the Finance organization to understand the key business drivers. Partnering with each transformation leader will be critical to the success of this role. Developing a roadmap that leverages the existing assets and driving next generation technology options is important to the transformational efforts. The team includes Analysts, Solution Leads and Project Managers and will work across the IT organization (and managed service partners) to execute projects and support activities.

The Accounts Payable Analyst is responsible for reviewing assigned business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial, and technological opportunities to improve efficiency and minimize risks. Responsibilities will include a full range of activities from documenting business and functional requirements to assisting on more complex projects related to operational business functions and strategic initiatives.

Ideal candidate for the Accounts Payable Analyst role is a problem solver who will play a critical role in defining and enabling business change, make a real difference to business success and influence the way the company operates to amplify positive impact.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide strategic business analysis to drive capability development and measuring success by identifying contribution towards strategic objectives
Partner with stakeholder teams across business units to document necessary business cases to frame opportunities, benefits, and risks to decide on a course of action
Serve as the bridge between business problems and technology solutions by bringing a high proficiency to understand and capture complete business needs to enable IT solutions
Manage business area relationships, expectations and stay current with stakeholder needs and strategies by developing a communication process utilizing formal and informal written communication methods (for example, emails, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists, updates) to communicate updates and findings and facilitating project meetings and presentations to all types of diverse audiences (e.g. senior management, customers, technical staff)
Cultivate strong business relationships by demonstrating an understanding of related processes, requirements, systems, and terminology
Liaison and collaborate between key stakeholders and IT shared services on support and maintenance related activities to ensure quality of systems
Analyze an organization or business domain, document the business or processes or systems, assess the business model or its integration with technology
Drive identification of requirements across business units and identify systems processes through evaluation of business objectives, drivers, and success metrics
Document business requirements and detailed functional and technical specifications from multi-department stakeholders for review and delivery to the development team using traditional waterfall model as well as develop epics, user stories, and their acceptance criteria for agile delivery
Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of regular status reports to all appropriate parties
Participate in project delivery and process optimization to support the execution of projects using various project methodologies including performing configuration within a variety of software packages
Identify change management processes and techniq es to handle change within a business with minimal disruption to business activities
Develop test plans for given releases as well as execute system and integration test cases
Analyze and interpret information technology proposals and evaluate and develop alternative implementation plans
Ability to take a topic of higher complexity and break it into topics that are digestible by technical and non-technical stakeholders
Handle multiple engagements simultaneously without compromising accountability or reducing level of engagement

Requirements:

Education: Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or computer information systems

Computer Skills: Advanced general computer skills required. Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Knowledge of JIRA or Application Lifecycle Management testing environment is a plus.

Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to tell the \"story\". Experience communicating technical information to stakeholders, peers, management, and non-technical team members. Experience communicating functional requirements to highly technical team members.

Preferred Skills:

General SAP FICO experience

SAP Accounts Payable module

SAP Accounts Receivable module

SAP Signavio

Application Life