SAP Business Analyst/Data Analyst- Independent candidates

Role: SAP Business Analyst/Data Analyst
Location: Parsippany, NJ – 4 days onsite
Long term contract
Rate: hourly on C2C

Minimum 5-7 years of progressive hands-on SAP techno-functional experience with a strong understanding of SAP datasets like sales, purchasing, inventory management, Integrated Business Planning (IBP).

Published Description

We are seeking a Senior Business/Data Analyst Contractor that has Cloud-Data experience that will have the responsibility for eliciting business needs, performing detailed analysis and documentation, modeling processes, evaluating impacts, prioritizing business requests, and partnering with the project teams to ensure the successful delivery of new Cloud-Data Lake capabilities in support of various business applications.   

Essential Duties:

• Solve complex business problems utilizing business process redesign and cloud computing technologies
• Assess AS-IS processes and develop new processes and/or business flows to leverage Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) capabilities of Software-As-A-Service (SAAS).
• Consult with data engineering team and functional unit owners and document a gap analysis of capabilities, requirements and needs against technology
• Apply business process re-engineering methodologies for systems modernization
• Develops new standard operating procedures documentation and a handbook for Data Lake
• Prepare and present findings, recommendations, new operating models, and new workflows in consultation with the data engineering team
• Creates methodology to measure process performance against established metrics
• Responsible for completing assignments with the ability to work on 1-3 projects 
• Understanding the business needs and requests, identifying solutions, gathering information, and translating business needs into documented artifacts that are understandable to business and IT personnel alike
• Work with the business users to analyze processes and system issues and turn them into actionable system changes that benefit the requesting party(s), improve efficiency in operations and overall performance
• Collaborate with project teams and business partners during project planning, incremental software delivery reviews, and User Acceptance testing to ensure the software has been implemented based on the specifications.

Qualifications:

Level Based Competencies:

• Strong Collaboration skills
• Very Strong Communication skill
• Very Strong Customer Focus and client interface skills (Perhaps: Ability to interact with business users and focus on customer needs)
• Strong Skills in Building Working Relationships
• Strong Planning, Organizing & Follow-Up skills
• Strong Attention to Detail
• Time Management 
• Meeting facilitation
• Strong Relationship Management skills – ability to interact well with all levels of management, quickly and effectively build credibility and relationships

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Minimum 6-8 years of progressive hands-on SAP techno-functional experience with a strong understanding of SAP datasets like sales, purchasing, inventory management, Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
• Should be able to direct the team to map the SAP datasets in a non SAP cloud platform e.g. for Sales Datasets - modeling of sales orders with invoices, shipment, master data etc.
• Should be responsible for writing the functional specifications of the data sets created.
• This role is with the analytics team, however this resource should liaison with the data team to bridge the functional needs.
• Experience in SDLC and Agile/Scrum methodology, including: eliciting/documenting user stories/acceptance criteria, backlog management, and Sprint reviews.
• Modeling experience (e.g., process flows, use cases, swim lane diagrams, AS-IS / TO-BE diagrams, mock-ups/wireframes)
• Experience in Google Cloud technology is a plus
• Experience in data modeling
• Experience in process re-engineering
• Knowledge of Information Security Awareness
• Understanding of web applications
• Experience in Jira is a plus

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related majors.
• 10 years of IT experience; preferably in enterprise Business-to-Business durable goods, construction, or building materials manufacturing.
• 10 years’ experience in systems analysis, data analysis and design with proven record of successful large scale project implementations
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or similar certification is a plus.

Regards,

Shawn Davis,

Pull skill Technologies inc.

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