Lead Technical Analyst

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders as a liaison between Information Technology (IT) and leadership for assigned business units or vendors.
• Lead Financials related to technical design, configuration, development, and support for continuous improvements and SAP deployments globally.
• Develop and execute test plans to check infrastructure, security, systems technical development, and functional configuration, and where possible, makes recommendations for improvement.
• Participate with opportunities at times to lead design sessions for prototyping new systems for enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow across the ERP platform.
• Engage in Proof of Concept (POC) for feasibility studies, evaluate, qualify, and select third-party software, vendors, and/or service providers.
• Contribute to complex system and process end-to-end architecture designs, integration requirements, and specification documents.
• Develop RICEW technical solutions based on business requirements and in consideration with the overall technical architecture.
• Proactively establish and conduct training on SAP functionality
• Deliver SAP applications by defining, documenting, and engaging in end-to-end test case scenarios and creating data for unit testing as needed.
• Adhere to existing change management and service management policies and procedures.
• Contribute to small and large project schedules, track progress while providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions, and resolving conflicts.
• Is proactive in understanding the customer's business processes, the key drivers and measures of success for the business, and the short and long-term direction of the business and technology.
• Participate in prioritizing work requests to deliver on business initiatives; create estimates for upcoming projects and minor and major enhancements.
• Provide risk analysis to business partners for proposed solutions and mitigation options if necessary.
• Assess and identify opportunities for continuous improvements in business and system processes while also assisting with the development of metrics, both within the technology and business organizations.