Senior Business Systems Analyst, SAP

We Make Life More Rewarding and Dignified 

Location: ​Ballina​
Department: ​Information Technology 

Summary:

The Senior Specialist, Business Systems Analyst is responsible for the analysis, design, testing, and implementation of business processes and the supporting software applications. This role drives business value by collaborating with business stakeholders and senior application team members to ensure the efficiency of existing processes while designing enhancements and extensions that align technology with key business needs.

The Analyst should possess deep expertise in business activities and processes within the designated functional area and effectively partner with business teams to ensure IT solutions deliver measurable value.

This role specifically supports Manufacturing Finance and Controlling functions, including Cost Center Accounting, Product Costing, Production Accounting, Inventory Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Profit Center Accounting, and financial reporting within these domains.

Responsibilities:

Solution Delivery:

•Business Process Implementation & Enhancement: Collaborates with business stakeholders and senior IT resources to analyze existing business processes, gather new requirements, develop functional process designs, and define reporting needs to support management oversight.

•Process Knowledge & Impact Assessment: Maintains expertise in current process standards within the designated function. With guidance from senior application team members, evaluates the impact of process changes on the existing environment.

•Testing & Validation: Translates business requirements, functional designs, and business scenarios into comprehensive test plans to validate business processes before implementation. Conducts detailed unit testing to ensure technical solutions align with functional requirements. Works with business stakeholders and senior IT members to ensure integration testing covers all business process variations. Facilitates business user acceptance, identifies impacts on related processes, and performs regression testing as needed.

Operating Environment:

•Business Process Support: Ensures critical business processes within the area of specialization function effectively by maintaining the application platform’s ability to deliver required business capabilities. Resolves production issues promptly while adhering to IT protocols and standards.

•Documentation & Process Design: Develops and maintains documentation for business process design, including high-level overviews, detailed functional specifications, and visual aids such as process flows. Regularly updates documentation as processes evolve, tailoring content to the appropriate audience.

•Training & Knowledge Sharing: Conducts training sessions for business users on new process implementations. Shares best practices across the organization to ensure effective and efficient use of software applications.

•Process & System Enhancements: Leads the implementation of routine process changes and system enhancements under the guidance of senior IT resources. Understands project management methodologies and the business analyst’s role in the software development lifecycle.

•Stakeholder Engagement: Builds and maintains strong working relationships with key business users and managers to ensure alignment between IT solutions and business needs.

•Additional Responsibilities: Performs other duties as required to support business and IT objectives.

Business Partnering:

•Stakeholder Collaboration & IT Liaison: Establishes strong, collaborative relationships with multiple business stakeholders, serving as a clear point of contact within IT. Manages expectations and acts as a bridge between IT and the business, ensuring alignment on technology-driven initiatives.

•Technology Initiative Intake & Roadmap Development: Plays a key role in the intake and prioritization of business technology initiatives. Partners with business stakeholders, IT Solution Architects, and IT Leadership to define the IT/Business initiatives roadmap and advance initiatives through the project intake and assessment process.

•Maximizing IT Services for Business Value: Understands IT service offerings and collaborates with IT Leadership and business stakeholders to optimize their use, ensuring technology initiatives are prioritized based on their potential business impact.

•Strategic IT Alignment: Works closely with IT Enterprise Architecture and IT Leadership to ensure business technology initiatives align with the organization’s overall IT strategy.

•Project Execution & Governance: Engages with implementation partners and project managers to provide oversight on project status, issues, and changes. Ensures project requirements are well-documented, clearly understood, and approved by all relevant stakeholders.

•Business & Process Understanding: Develops a strong understanding of core business activities and processes, identifying the IT services required to support each function effectively.

•Industry & Technology Expertise: Builds deep knowledge of the business, industry trends, and emerging technological solutions to drive digital transformation and enhance business operations.

Essential Functions of the Role:

• Fully competent in the principles and practices of Business Analysis
• Maintains current knowledge of business and technological trends.
• Flexibility in work schedule, off-hours for project implementation.
• Travel via plane or automobile both locally and internationally
• Work Experience Requirements
• Number of Overall Years Necessary: 8-12
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a related business function
• A minimum or 5 years of experience business process analysis and design

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business Systems, or a related field.

Specialized Skills/Technical Knowledge:

• Comprehensive Application Expertise: Possesses in-depth enterprise-wide knowledge of applications within the designated business function, encompassing business process configuration, key module integration points, cross-application integrations, master data management, and transactional execution.
  • Cost Center Accounting: Expertise in cost center planning, actuals management, cost allocations, and cost center reporting, including month-end and year-end closing activities. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Product Costing: In-depth knowledge of product costing for both manufactured and purchased products, encompassing key master data elements such as Bills of Material (BOM) and routings, along with associated closing processes. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Production Accounting: Extensive experience in accounting for production activities using production orders, including material consumption postings, overhead absorption, variance analysis, order settlements, and reporting, with a focus on month-end and year-end closing processes. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Inventory Accounting: Proficiency in managing inventory-related transactions and their financial impact on the Profit & Loss statement and Balance Sheet, ensuring accurate month-end and year-end closing. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Profit Centers: Strong understanding of profit center structures and their role in driving management reporting within a manufacturing environment. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
  • Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Expertise in the end-to-end flow of sales transactions into Profitability Analysis, including the configuration and management of derivation rules that drive data flow into profitability segments and enable advanced reporting. Supported systems: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 2023.
• Industry and Technology Awareness: Continuously monitors emerging business trends and technological advancements, integrating relevant developments to address business challenges effectively.

Technical Proficiency:

• Expertise in essential desktop applications, including Visio for process flow diagrams and Excel/Access for large-scale data analysis.
• Strong understanding of business requirements elicitation techniques such as use cases, prototyping, and questionnaires, applying the most suitable approach based on the context and audience.

Financial and Analytical Acumen:

• Proficient in conducting basic cost-benefit analyses for low-complexity process enhancements.
• Strong analytical skills to assess business needs, develop viable solutions, and articulate the business and technical implications of proposed changes.

Business Partnering and Solution Alignment: 

• Effectively collaborates with stakeholders to align business needs with technology solutions, ensuring the delivery of tangible business value.

Communication and Documentation Skills:

• Verbal Communication: Adept at conveying complex business processes and technical concepts in clear, business-friendly language, avoiding unnecessary technical jargon. Ensures mutual understanding through active listening, paraphrasing, and adapting communication style as needed.
• Written Communication: Skilled in documenting intricate business processes and technical details using precise business terminology. Enhances comprehension with visual aids such as process flows and decision tables to supplement explanations.

About Hollister Incorporated
Hollister Incorporated is an independent, employee-owned company that develops, manufactures and markets healthcare products worldwide. The company spearheads the advancement of innovative products for ostomy care, continence care and critical care, and also creates educational support materials for patients and healthcare professionals. Headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, Hollister has manufacturing and distribution centers on three continents and sells in nearly 80 countries. Hollister is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Firm of John Dickinson Schneider, Inc., and is guided both by its Mission to make life more rewarding and dignified for people who use our products and services, as well as its Vision to grow and prosper as an independent, employee-owned company, and in the process, to become better human beings.

EOE Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Job Req ID: 34668