SAP FICO Business Analyst

Knowit Training
Chicago, IL
Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Manages the relationship between business partners and the IT department relative to requirements, solutions, and priorities
  • Works with business partners to determine alignment of initiatives with business goals and value
  • Develops and maintains an advanced knowledge of the capabilities and functions of the assigned application software. Uses this knowledge to recommend optimal solutions to business requirements that best leverages the product using best practice methodologies
  • Assesses cross-functional impact of changes to business processes
  • Assists in all aspects of solution development and deployment activities except for coding
  • Emphasis will be on scope definition, requirements definition, system configuration, testing, and deployment
  • Develops and documents new processes and solutions
  • Performs system support activities and ensures production support service levels are met for all business applications
  • Create system documentation
  • Ensures that IT practices and policies are adhered to and aligned across the enterprise.
Requirements:
  • Advanced Project Management Skills - Capable of managing concurrent projects successfully. The projects may involve more than 4 additional resources, be cross functional and involve more than 500 hours effort for the total team.
  • Communication - Strong written and oral communication skills, as well as presentation skills. Ability to communicate complex ideas in plain language. Good listening skills and ability to fully understand concepts by asking good questions
  • Cross collaboration Skills
  • Problem Solving: Methodical and disciplined approach that emphasizes the long-term perspective
  • SME with respect to assigned software and development tools.
  • Business acumen - ability to separate high value initiatives from low value and articulate the difference
  • Influence - Needs to inspire confidence and credibility and be willing and able to influence others' opinions where appropriate
  • Ability to work with third party vendor resources.
Technical strengths:
  • Strong SAP FICO configuration skills in the areas of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Fixed assets
  • Good understanding of SAP data structures relevant to the areas of Finance
  • Good understanding of SAP Finance integration points with other SAP modules
  • Able to translate business needs into terms technical experts can easily understand and respond to
  • Demonstrate ability to grasp newer technologies relevant to the area assigned
  • Utilizes Software Development Life Cycle best practices to manage project activities.
  • Prior experience with Account Payable automaton tools like OpenText and SAP BPC preferred
  • Knowledge of procure to pay processes and Vendor EDI preferred
  • S4/HANA implementation experience preferred
Posted 2025-08-07

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