SAP Functional Analyst (PS & PM)

Direct Hire. Salary Range up to 205K OE.

Hybrid. 3 days onsite each week. No visa sponsorship.

Position Summary

The role of the Principal IT SAP Work Management Functional Analyst is to configure, implement, maintain, and upgrade SAP Enterprise Resources Planning Plant Maintenance and Project Systems application modules.

The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents, and performs ERP system configuration and customization to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations. The principal FA is viewed as an integral strategic partner and business liaison in technology decisions and provides ongoing ERP system support. This includes analyzing business requirements and developing integrated IT and complex business solutions.

Responsibilities

Business Support and Consulting:

Define standard processes in SAP S4 and drive adaptation in enterprise work management area, specific focus on design and estimation tools, integration with graphical tools such as, (AUTOCAD Utility Design (AUD), OCalc Pro Pole Loading Software, Heavy bid Estimating Software etc.

Analyze end-to-end complex business processes in scheduling, dispatch, and field mobility solution for across business functional areas.

Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new SAP S4 HANA capabilities.

Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross- organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.

Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

Functional Analysis:

Automate/optimize SAP work management processes through a third-party enterprise resource planning system.

Map business requirements to SAP S4 system capabilities and configure to meet requirements.

Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution.

Perform complex configuration of SAP S4 system and do quality review and testing activities.

Additional Distinguishing Characteristics of this Level:

Able to analyze and design solutions independently even on the most complex projects in SAP work management and plant maintenance module.

Develop a community that drives standard business processes in Enterprise work management.

Demonstrates broad knowledge of industry best practices for ERP projects. This position also requires knowledge of business processes for all corresponding business functional areas and ERP modules.

Maintains industry knowledge of ERP systems and understand future capabilities/roadmap of ERP system in work management and project system area.

Qualifications

Minimum:

10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology

8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in Enterprise Asset management and plant maintenance in SAP ERP system.

Experience in SAP compatible units; configuring and setting up the master data of SAP compatible units and assemblies and using CUs to create SAP designs using one or many design builders.

Experience in Graphical Work Design and estimation tools, and integration of these tools with SAP CU designs; for e.g. AUTOCAD Utility Design (AUD), OCalc Pro Pole Loading Software, Heavybid Estimating Software etc.

Desired:

MA/MS in Computer Science/ Information Systems, Business, Engineering, etc. or equivalent work experience.

Experience in mobile platforms for capital construction projects including redlining and documentation of as built vs. as designed.

Extensive participation in projects of high complexity or simultaneous participation in multiple projects of medium to high complexity in a leading role

Proficiency and hands-on experience on SAP S4 Hana, Plant Maintenance, EAM (enterprise asset management module), Intelligent Asset Manager, Oracle P6/Primavera, or similar tools such as Infor EAM, Maximo.

Gas and / or Electric utility industry experience.

Exposure to writing business requirements documents, software specifications or preparing business process flows.

**This position is hybrid. The expectation would be to be onsite 3 days per week.

Please include your responses to these questions below:

What experience do you have in SAP S4 HANA Implementation/deliverables?

How many S4 projects you have worked on?

What was team size?

What was your role in that project/job?

Do you have any SAP transformation project related experience?

What were your deliverables specifically?

What were the outcomes of that project?

What is your experience in business process standardization?

Have you been able to remediate existing customizations in SAP system and drive business process to standard?

How were you able to influence business users to adapt standard industry practices?