Sr Business Analyst - SAP Procure to Pay

Border States is a 100% employee-owned electrical supply distribution company and a leader in the United States electrical distribution industry. The Sr Business Analyst will support IT application operations, maintain and support SAP ERP, and lead complex technology projects across their lifecycle. The role focuses on SAP Material Management and Procure-to-Pay processes, requirements gathering, solution design, testing, integrations, vendor coordination, and business process improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with business, development and other analyst teams to write technical and functional documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, and corrections; including end user documentation (training) to describe new or enhanced functionality
• Reviews, analyzes, modifies, writes and/or executes thorough change request test plans and checklists to ensure that business system changes are working properly, existing processes remain unaffected and the needs of the users are met
• Identifies, tracks, monitors and communicates on project-related issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies that occur during projects
• Provides consultation of advanced technical expertise in the integrated business applications processes
• Collaborates, leads and directs work effort of vendors (both on and offsite)
• Provides vendor performance feedback and validation of expenditures to IT management
• Proactively researches, recommends, and assists in implementation of emerging technologies and/or vendor solutions as they relate to company’s best practices
• Communicates best practices across areas of responsibility and participates in continuous improvement of IT processes
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with customers, vendors, and others related to the company
• Actively participates in team meetings and group discussions
• Provides guidance to team to create high quality functional business requirements
• Provides guidance and design direction to teams and departments to resolve functionality and implementation issues
• Adheres to Border States Electric SDLC best practice guidelines and application change management procedure
• Follows security best practices to ensure the safety and integrity of applications
• Provides input on the development of best practices for the IT organization
• Provides support by working escalated incidents as part of the IT Help Desk to ensure business operations are not interrupted or delayed and during off hours as needed
• Promotes and maintains the identity and reputation of BSE, ensuring customer satisfaction and addressing problems and complaints as they arise
• Participates, creates, contributes and/or facilitates ongoing training for application functionality / best practice / lunch and learn topic related training in correlation with job duties
• Maintains business continuity and disaster recovery test documentation as it relates to the functional area(s)
• Assists in the maintenance and publication of SAP Help Documents
• Works effectively as a team with all BSE personnel
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or designate

Requirements:

• 4 Year STEM Degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 7 years of SAP Material Management and integrated business processes experience
• Advanced knowledge of SAP structures, configuration standards, object dependencies and tables
• Advanced understanding of relational databases and client-server concepts and commonly-used concepts, practices and procedures
• Firm grasp of business processes and systems linkage including experience with integrated systems
• Good working knowledge of PC, Windows, Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint), Internet, and Outlook
• Excellent customer service skills include being competent, accurate, responsive and engaged
• Ability to work effectively independently and in a collaborative, team environment to achieve goals
• Works seamlessly with others across geographical, functional and cultural boundaries
• Consistently demonstrate an eagerness to meet challenges with a self-starting attitude (can-do spirit)
• Accurately assesses and acknowledges own strengths and limitations
• Ability to work under pressure to resolve time sensitive issues
• Executes plans to deliver results
• Proven strong problem-solving skills individually and in group situations in order to address system and process issues that arise in the business areas including the ability to analyze a situation for potential future problems
• Communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences (technical and non-technical), and in a wide range of settings (e.g., one-on-one, small group, in person, conference calls and via e-mail)
• Able to meet the development demands of a dynamic, growing company
• Ability to effectively manage time and prioritize projects to meet established deadlines with minimal supervision
• Continuous improvement and learning mindset
• Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel
• Advanced functional, communication and organization skills
• Ability to effectively meet deadlines and milestones as well as provide timely updates
• Ability to ensure strong alignment between the business requirements/needs and the application solutions/services
• SAP MM functional expertise across purchasing, inventory management, source determination, and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes
• Strong SAP master data knowledge, including Material Master, Vendor/Supplier Master, Purchasing Info Records, Source Lists, and plant/material extensions
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot SAP MM data using key tables such as MARA, MARC, MARD, EINA, EINE, LFA1/BP, EKKO, EKPO, and EKBE
• Requirements gathering, solution design, functional specification writing, and business process documentation experience
• Testing and UAT support, including test script creation, defect triage, issue resolution, and business validation
• Understanding of integration points between MM and SD, FI/CO, WM/EWM, Ariba, EDI, APIs, and reporting solutions
• Familiar with related languages including but not limited to SQL, ABAP, Java and .Net is a plus
• SAP S/4HANA experience supporting MM and integrated business processes in a project or enhancement environment