SAP SD Business Analyst

Overview
Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career.

At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do. We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world. We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day.

Are you in? Read on for more details about this particular role.

Responsibilities

• Understand advanced, integrated business processes; identify and recognize global integration consequences.
• Partner with key users to determine application development requirements, acting as the liaison between the IT Organization and the end users to insure requirements and progress are communicated accurately.
• Comprehend and perform complex configuration tasks and testing in the areas of Sales and Distribution; resolve complex user reported issues in a timely manner.
• Successfully handle multiple projects, complete them on time, on budget and exceed customer expectations.
• Partner with the other Business Process Functional Teams, Application Development Teams, and Technology Services Teams as well as the end users, to analyze, design, develop, modify, test, and implement, software solutions and applications to satisfy MSA's business requirements.
• Research the SAP system, OSS, ASUG, and other resources for solutions to business requirements and the implementation of new business process improvements. Research new technologies and functionality, make recommendations on their use at MSA.
• Create design specifications for programs in all aspects of SAP's proprietary ABAP/4 programming language. Complete documentation of software solutions, SAP configuration and program modifications according to departmental standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in the SAP SD Module and fluent in the order to cash process; including (but not limited to) sales order processing, delivery processing, pricing, invoicing, cross-company sales process.
• Working knowledge of the functionality of all of the other core SAP modules (FI, CO, MM, PP) and integration points. Working knowledge of the ABAP Workbench.
• Strong ability to be able to take user requirements, design appropriate solutions and carry them through implementation including integration testing and end user training.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to sell concepts and ideas to a wide range of audience.
• Preferred experience with SAP ECC to S/4 HANA migration or full life cycle S/4 HANA Implementation and support.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience in going through at least 2 full life cycle implementations of SAP ECC.
• Strong ability to recognize, respect and adapt to cultural differences, as SAP is used on a global level.

Education and experience required:

• High school diploma

• This position is available at three different career levels based upon experience:

• Level I: 2 years IT or related business process experience

• Level II: 3 years IT or related business process experience and 2 years SAP configuration experience in the SD modules
• Level III: 5 years IT or related Sales and Distribution business process experience and 5 years SAP configuration experience in SD modules
• A Bachelor's Degree may be substituted for 2 years of experience.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Science, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• Knowledge of the SAP Service and Warranty functions, Project Systems, Solution Manager, ASAP methodology and SAP Best Practices.