Sr. SAP BSA Success factors

Senior BSA SAP (SuccessFactor, Employee Central)

Location: New Haven, CT, US,

• Employee central is most important, recruitment, performance, HR modules
• Come in as a senior BSA and support the modules
• Knows configurations, regular BSA task
• They have a third party supporting them but they need this senior BSA to help them too
• Do both functional, technical and do reporting from SAP and an external tool Snowflake.
• Need 7-10 years experience
• They need certifications of working in each module preferred, employee central is most
• Hybrid role come occasionally. Looking for EST and CST. East Coast and Mid-west are good

Core Responsibilities

• Evaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Conducts data gathering and analysis to develop business requirements and assist in identifying business priorities and recommended timelines.
• Performs data mapping and data analysis. Creates data mapping and data visualization documents.
• Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.
• Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff.
• Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.
• Prepare effort estimation including researching and estimating costs of upgrades and relevance of vendor packages.
• Evaluate release notes for vendor products. Determine impact to current business processes and assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for enhancements and revised processes.
• Perform requirements analysis. Document and Communicate the results of the analysis.
• Translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers, project team and business owner(s).
• Participate in technical design of solutions with programmers, solution architects, and other team members.
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.
• Provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff. Provides technical guidance to other team members.
• Triage and analyze incidents and problems. Provide clear analysis results including business impact.
• Assist business analyst(s) and test analyst(s) with duties as necessary.
• On-Call and/or after-hours work required.

Skills Qualifications

Required:

• Experience in HRIS, SAP SuccessFactors (including Employee Central), and data visualization tools
• Experience working with IT development staff on complex projects
• Strong technical background
• Strong data analysis and presentation skills
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment to meet deadlines
• Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Excellent documentation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid environments
• Effectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goals
• Ability to effectively resolve conflicts

System/Technical Knowledge:

• Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIs
• Data analysis skills including ability to perform intermediate to advanced SQL queries
• Experience in scripting
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Visio, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Advanced skills in Excel include formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and macros.
• Understanding of REST & SOAP Web Service and how to use SoapUI, REST API clients

Education

Required:

• BS or BA with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration
• 7-10 or more years related work experience

Preferred:

• Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) and/or Certified Business Analysis professions (CBAP) preferred