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The AGLC is seeking a Business Analyst (BA) with experience in complex large-scale SAP ERP project implementations (Focus on Finance, Supply Chain & Human Resources Functional Areas) to supplement the ERP Business Analyst Team and be the conduit between Information Technology (IT) and the business for our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Transformation.

Summary:

Reporting to the ERP Senior BA, the BA resource will partner with the business to identify, analysis, and document business requirements for AGLC's ERP transformation projects. This includes researching, reviewing, and analyzing the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements for new ERP capabilities. The BA will identify, document, and analyze requirements, document solutions, allocate requirements and make recommendations to achieve the desired future state with the new ERP workflow and solution. The BA will develop test plans, support testing, and assists with User Acceptance Testing processes. The BA will be responsible to manage and communicate changes, enhancements, modifications, and progression throughout various phases of the project life cycle to key stakeholders within IT and the functional business area. The primary work location is remote/online with a requirement to work from the office if required.

Project Overview

AGLC's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Transformation Project is reimagining the way we facilitate our core finance, order to cash, and procurement functions. It will provide an increased opportunity to streamline, automate and align processes with leading practices through the use of modernized enterprise-class ERP technologies. This will further enable and enhance master data management and customer relationship management enterprise capabilities.

Description of Services

This role is responsible for identifying, gathering, analyzing, specifying, and validating the business needs of end-users in a particular area of the business, and for IT projects or initiatives. These include interviewing stakeholders, capturing the "to-be” state, process improvements, and identifying the associated business requirements. These results convey to the Architecture, Change Management, and Quality Assurance teams the breadth and nature of the end user's needs and environment, thereby driving their solution design, change management, and testing efforts.

• Execute tasks in accordance with control processes, including schedule management, status-reporting issues, risk and change management at the project and or program level
• Analyze and define business requirements for determining roles relationships and data structures to meet business security privacy and operational requirements
• Support project team members in the analysis of issues
• Attend necessary meetings to review schedule, status, issues, risk, and change management
• Facilitate requirements gathering and validation workshops
• Develop business cases
• Document, analyze, and manage business requirements
• Produce deliverables within specified quality standards
• Develop and document project visions and approach
• Undertake management detailing tasks and review the timelines associated with the execution of those tasks
• Escalate issues and risks as appropriate
• Analyze and define data and information requirements needed to address business requirements used by data modelers and architects responsible for developing logical and physical data models and/or analyzing and designing class models to meet business requirements
• Prepare and execute tasks in accordance with a defined project plan
• Work with business clients and technical teams on the design development and implementation of business applications
• Review and provide input on test strategies plans and test cases to ensure they adequately cover the defined business requirements
• Prepare status reports, meeting minutes, change requests, and other documents