Business Solutions Analyst - SAP - SD LOC; Chesterbrook, PA
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
- This role is accountable for ensuring the delivery and ongoing operation of a functional solution that effectively meets evolving business and customer requirements.
- As such, the candidate must demonstrate exceptional communication skills, attention to detail, and an ability to build collaboration across the enterprise.
Primary Duties And Responsibilities
- Responsible primarily for providing SAP Order to Cash (OTC) solutions to meet business requirements with SAP best practices.
- Executes and tests appropriate configuration related to SAP Sales & Distribution (SD) module.
- Writes clear, complete functional specifications for the development team for SD related developments.
- Responsible for becoming completely familiar with existing SAP SD design and enhancements.
- Understands and help influence data and interfaces between SAP and external systems.
- Responsible for definition and acquisition of new requirements; works with stakeholders to define implementation timeline.
- Ensures coverage, execution, and remediation of test activities (e.g. unit, integration, user acceptance).
- Supports the development and delivery of training assets.
- Supports the deployment of production systems and provides post-production support.
- Analyzes change requests and determines appropriate solutions.
- Updates configuration as needed and works with developers to modify programs and ensures adequate end user testing and acceptance of all SD changes.
- Provides configuration and OTC knowledge support to other analysts.
- Collaborates with other Functional Analysts to develop effective SAP-SD solutions.
- Ensures integration with other modules is effectively tested during integration testing.
- Researches and identifies appropriate SAP solutions to business requirements.
- Utilizes past experiences and knowledge of sales, service and distribution to recommend appropriate business process solutions to new business requirements.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Experience And Educational Requirements
- A Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business, Sales, Marketing or related field
- 4 or more years of SAP SD configuration experience, including Order Management, Deliveries, ATP, Billing, EDI etc.
- 2 or more full life-cycle implementations of SAP which must include requirements gathering, blueprinting, functional testing, and SAP configuration
- 2 or more years of experience in production support environment
- Additional experience with customer service, EDI/IDOC, ABAP, Query, BW/BI, OER, MM and CRM preferred
Minimum Skills, Knowledge And Ability Requirements
- Demonstrated knowledge of SAP-SD configuration.
- Demonstrated knowledge of SAP-SD and OTC (Order-to-Cash) integration with external systems.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and multi-tasking skills
- Strong understanding of Sales, Logistics and Customer Operations to establish credibility and trust with all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated understanding of all aspects of a full life cycle implementation
- Ability to translate functional requirements into technical terms relevant to SAP to coordinate and assist with detailed technical design
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to relate well and cooperate with others to effectively coordinate activities and accomplish goals
- Teamwork / collaboration expertise with significant experience in taking a leadership role in team /project activities
- Proven ability to research and assess potential SAP solutions in support of new business requirements
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and provide effective problem solving, assessing whether standard functionality can be used and identifying reasonable custom solutions where needed
- Understanding of full life cycle ASAP or other development methodology
- Demonstrated ability to remain effective and productive in a fast-paced and changing environment