Scope of Responsibilities:
Business Requirements:
- Lead the development of and document to a high standard, business requirements for projects, continuous improvements and potentially programmes by:
- Working closely with the business to understand their needs and act as a ‘bridge’ between the business and IS
- Engaging with the business through interviews and workshops to gather and document detailed and unambiguous business requirements that meet those needs
- Becoming the Subject Matter Expert on the business’ requirements and act as the ‘voice of the businesses for the project team
- Ensuring that all governance, risk management, controls and compliance requirements are considered during development of requirements
- Where required, working directly with Business Relationship IS Directors to ensure that business needs have been captured correctly and represented accurately in the requirements
- Enabling effective business change by challenging business stakeholders to think differently about how the business delivers its products and services.
Solution Delivery Support
- Support delivery partners with translating requirements into clear functional specifications
- Respond to queries raised by delivery partners during the technical design, build and deploy phases
- Support delivery partners during testing phases, in particular UAT
- Provide support to delivery partners during the “handover to support” phase to help enable a successful handover to the business. As part of this, support delivery partners by contributing to the development and delivery of user training.
Other
- Support the Project Manager during the start-up and planning phase as required
- Provide work/effort estimates to the Project Manager as required
- Contribute to project meetings to ensure that potential impacts, risk, issues, gaps and assumptions are captured, analysed and understood
- Contribute to post implementation reviews, evaluations and lessons learned.
- Act as an SME for processes pertaining to Finance, Controlling along with Finance Reporting
Accountabilities
- Successfully capture and represent demand through high quality requirements
- Ensure the delivery of the demand accurately reflects business requirements
Skills/Experiences
- Proficient with SAP FICO. Possess a solid understanding of core financial processes (GL, AP, AR, CCA, PCA, COPA, Product Costing etc) and the implementation of best practice solutions in the SAP FICO space
- Proven experience of delivering business requirements and functional design on IT enabled change projects
- Enthusiastic about the use of technology, with a proven ability to provide a communication ‘bridge’ between the business and technologists
- A high level of business intelligence and strong analytical skills
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of business imperatives and requirements and how to translate these into functional and non-functional specifications when supporting delivery partners
- Ability to work in a mixed Waterfall and Agile delivery environment
- Experience of supporting complex change and / or multi-disciplinary projects
- Experience of working with delivery partners during the project lifecycle
- Able to build and maintain strong and effective relationships
- Effective time management and organisational skills
- Critical thinker and ability to demonstrate logical approach to problem solving
- Able to prioritise work and balance competing demands
- Able to deal with conflict and mediate
- Able to deal with ambiguity and cope with change
- Able to work under pressure
- Team player
- Experience of working within FMCG, Consumer goods
- Exposure to SAP BW/BI & Hyperion (HFM)
Technical / Professional Qualifications:
- Educated in Business discipline or Computer Science to degree level, or equivalent experience
- Business Analysis Diploma, Information Systems Examination Board, or similar
- Microsoft Office Suite to Proficient level.
- Program and Project Management qualifications e.g. Prince2, PMI PMP.