Business Analyst

Our Client, a nation wide roofing and waterproofing manufacturer, is looking for someone to join their team as a Business Analyst!
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• This is a hybrid one year contract that takes place in NYC
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• What You Will Be Doing
• Solve complex business problems utilizing business process redesign and cloud computing technologies
• Assess AS-IS processes and develop new processes and/or business flows to leverage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) capabilities of Software-As-A-Service (SAAS).
• Consult with data engineering team and functional unit owners and document a gap analysis of capabilities, requirements and needs against technology
• Apply business process re-engineering methodologies for systems modernization
• Develops new standard operating procedures documentation and a handbook for Data Lake
• Prepare and present findings, recommendations, new operating models, and new workflows in consultation with the data engineering team
• Creates methodology to measure process performance against established metrics
• Responsible for completing assignments with the ability to work on 1-3 projects
• Understanding the business needs and requests, identifying solutions, gathering information, and translating business needs into documented artifacts that are understandable to business and IT personnel alike
• Work with the business users to analyze processes and system issues and turn them into actionable system changes that benefit the requesting party(s), improve efficiency in operations and overall performance
• Collaborate with project teams and business partners during project planning, incremental software delivery reviews, and User Acceptance testing to ensure the software has been implemented based on the specifications.

Responsibilities
• Minimum 5-7 years of progressive hands-on SAP techno functional experience with a strong understanding of SAP datasets like sales, purchasing, inventory management, IBP.
• Should be able to direct the team to map the SAP datasets in a non SAP cloud platform e.g. for Sales Datasets - modeling of sales orders with invoices, shipment, master data etc.
• Should be responsible for writing the functional specifications of the data sets created.
• This role is with the analytics team , however this resource should liaison with the data team to bridge the functional needs.
• Experience in SDLC and Agile/Scrum methodology, including: eliciting/documenting user stories/acceptance criteria, backlog management, and Sprint reviews.
• Modeling experience (e.g., process flows, use cases, swim lane diagrams, AS-IS / TO-BE diagrams, mock-ups/wireframes)
• Experience in Google Cloud technology is a plus
• Experience in data modeling
• Experience in process re-engineering
• Knowledge of Information Security Awareness
• Understanding of web applications
• Experience in Jira is a plus