Job Description

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SAP Finance Functional Analyst

Wonderbrands, is a leading North American bakery (formerly Weston Foods, fresh business) with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads, artisan breads, and donuts. We are one of the largest bakeries in North America and makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa.
Wonderbrands, a division of FGF Brands, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake.

Role Overview:
The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) is specialized in understanding the needs of the various organizational departments and translates their business needs into functional business system configuration specifications. The scope of the work includes the identification of continuous improvement opportunities while working closely with internal and external customers and the respective implementations following the Software Development Livecycle and Project Management Methodology. The Business Systems Analyst is also responsible to provide L2/L3 support for ensuring that system monitoring is in place, owns incident management, initial triage, issue escalation, and communications to stakeholders and impacted users.

This person will be responsible for identifying important issues as they arise and communicate the issues to impacted departments within the corporation. The Business Systems Analyst will work closely with the delivery and technology teams to determine root cause and solution options.

The BSA is a passionate and highly analytical, project-minded individual who wants to make significant and lasting impact, follows the latest application system trends in their respective area, and shares knowledge with teammates.


Responsibilities:

• Actively participate as a project team member and perform assigned tasks within allocated time and produce quality deliverables. Lead other team members and manage their deliverables supporting PMO.
• Lead business requirements gathering sessions, understand, analyze and translate them into system requirements, configurations and customizations.
• Possess knowledge and experience leveraging both IT solutions and business process improvements. Design, improvement, and identification of gaps in business processes.
• Develop and coordinate the development of comprehensive functional requirements and provide input into technical specification documents.
• Identify, analyze and evaluate integration opportunities and solutions between applications.
• Coordinate testing activities, identify test scenarios, develop test scripts, design test plans and test strategies (when required).
• Oversee and perform data migration activities such as requirements gathering, source to target data mappings, determine data dependencies, and data load and validation.
• Employ subject matter expertise and strong analytical skills to identify and quantify opportunities in terms of process harmonization, automation and improvements, profitability and cost savings. Provide recommendations for Buy versus Build.
• Lead identification of training needs, advise on training courses and content structure, design and create training exercises and data, and lead end user training sessions for new functionality.
• Participate in the identification and specification of changes to business processes and systems and provide recommendations to process and system changes.
• Support the life functionality for day-to-day operations and address tickets within SLAs. Analyze root-cause and suggest preventive measures.
• Coordinate the resolution of tickets within area of responsibility.
• Engage with business user to drive continuous improvements.
• Possess an understanding of IT applications and supported business capabilities and integration options.

• Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related degree, with formal training in the areas of ERP systems.
• Minimum of 7 years work experience in SAP Finance and Controlling modules FI/CO, AM, AP, AR, GL, Banking and related areas within SAP ECC or S/4 HANA.
• Experience with three or more complete ERP or application life cycle implementations.
• Working knowledge of industry common PMLC, QA and ITIL frameworks.

• You are an excellent communicator with a strong consulting presence, equally comfortable building hands-on solutions in a team environment and advising leadership.
• You have the ability to articulate complex and technical topics in plain language so that they are easily understood and communicated.