Senior SAP FICO Business Analyst
Materion

Job Info

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The SAP CO Senior Business Analyst will serve as the primary IT liaison to the business and be responsible for leading and/or executing the analysis, design, configuration, development, testing, implementation and operational support for SAP applications. Specifically, the SAP CO Senior Business Analyst will co-design with the business, deliver and support solutions related to General Ledger Accounting, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, and Financial Planning. The SAP Business Analyst works with multiple stakeholders to understand and document the end-to-end business processes and recommends, builds and implements ERP or Digital software solutions to support the processes. The SAP CO Senior Business Analyst also works with business partners in Materion's Finance organization to support day-to-day operations of the Record-to-Report (RTR) business processes.

You Will Have the Opportunity to:

• Participate in prioritization of resources to deliver initiatives through Materion's Digital Review Board (DRB); create estimates for upcoming projects, minor and major enhancements.
• Facilitate business process reviews to gather expected business outcomes and functional requirements, document end-to-end processes and business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and create the configuration rationale to design, and configure SAP CO applications.
• Work with business analyst peers to architect cross-functional, integrated solutions across the enterprise to support the strategic vision of One Materion.
• Work with the SAP Development team to unit test and deliver SAP Applications by defining and documenting reusable test scenarios, building unit test cases and creating data for unit testing as needed; participate in design and execution of system, integration and performance testing.
• Set schedules, timelines, scope, outcome/value maps, and other project artifacts; creates estimates for upcoming projects either as primary SAP CO Applications lead or in close conjunction with the project manager(s).
• Participate as primary SAP CO functional lead during project cutover, and performs hyper-care support on SAP CO applications as and when required.
• Understand best practice business processes to ensure compliance and end use support in a highly regulated environment.
• Provide risk analysis to business partners for proposed solutions, and mitigation options when available.
• Support concurrent work assignments across applications and diverse user groups; works to resolve system issues.
• Document support materials including functional and technical specifications for use within the Applications and Digital Solutions team.
• Maintain and develop internal business relationships to influence successful project outcomes; train and support users on solutions post-production.
• Maintain market knowledge of emerging strategies through continuing education, SAP conferences, and ASUG meetings to bring vision and a degree of innovation to Materion.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, MIS, Financial Accounting or related field. CPA preferred.
• COPA Experience is a must have
• 10 or more years of experience supporting SAP FI/CO module and related integration with MM, PP, PM and SD.
• Demonstrated capability and competency in global finance processes, and in-depth knowledge of SAP FI/CO applications such as New GL and IFRS.
• Demonstrated understanding and application of the SDLC.
• Understanding of local market requirements, languages, and currencies.
• Understanding of SOX compliance and internal controls.

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