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1953 - SAP FICO BA - Minneapolis, MN

Business Analyst: 

• Partners with leadership to shape key business processes and technology to drive value creation. 
• Elicits, analyzes, translates, and documents business requirements into functional and technical requirements. Challenges the status quo to drive business value. 
• Analyzes, documents and tests program development, logic, process flows and specifications; conducts or directs user acceptance testing. 
• Creates business and system operating procedures. 
• Provides direction to project resources to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget and meet stated business requirements. 

Qualified applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field or business. A minimum of five years of related experience.

Requirements include: 

• Strong analytical skills and understanding of business functionality. 
• Ability to create compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimations.
• Excellent understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies. 
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas. Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing business requirements. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot problems that may arise in work products. 

Technical requirements: 

• Ability to partner with software engineers and quality analysts to identify problems and determine resolutions. 
• Strong understanding of basic system engineering, object-oriented design, information risk and security guidelines, and architecture standards. 
• Strong understanding of Modeling Techniques: Object Orientation analysis, Unified Modeling Language (UML) (e.g. Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Swim Lanes). 
• In depth understanding of the various software development lifecycles (e.g. Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Waterfall). 
• Demonstrated experience in writing software requirements and test specifications. 
• Deep SAP configuration experience with version ERP ECC 6.0 or above.