SAP Functional Consultant/Business Analyst

Genesis Consulting is a leading ERP and Enterprise Agility firm combining innovative Digital Transformation capabilities and enabling skills to provide industry-leading solutions to the federal government. Genesis Consulting is leading an advanced financial management transformation at one of the largest federal civilian agencies that implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance, conservation programs, farm safety net programs, lending, and disaster programs. The program encompasses integrating dozens of mission critical financial applications to a modern SAP application operating in a FedRamp Certified cloud, while reengineering business process, with the proper internal controls and educating the impacted users and organizations on the future digital platform.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The SAP Functional Consultant will be responsible for exploring the needs of the people and systems that will use SAP, and design solution processes that enable the to-be design. The ideal candidate will bring SAP expertise and modern skills around Product Management in an Agile environment, specifically supporting federal financial applications.

• Support creation of SAP posting models to achieve USSGL compliant transactions

• Construct program journey maps to understand the lifecycle of a financial business event from program application initiation to posting in SAP, including any manual steps, and final output to customer (Farmer/Rancher)

• Support the creation of Features as defined by SAFe and assist in tracking from creation to delivery through the source system of Jira

• Assist with preparation and facilitation of feature refinement, operating largely at the program level, while engaging teams at times to refine artifacts to support working software

• Assist legacy system architects in assessing architectural challenges and providing options and recommendations for implementing financial business processes in SAP

• Support the creation of preliminary SAP configuration guides

• Assist teams in creating story maps (based on PdM features) to inform the development of possible features for further research and user stories

• Assist with continuously testing features against acceptance criteria and possible MVP iteratively, to ensure features meet acceptance criteria and work together seamlessly across PIs

• Document the organization(s) and operating procedure(s) impacted by the re-engineered business process(es), the way they're impacted, the updated operating procedure(s), and role(s) required to implement

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications/Experience:

• 3-5 years of SAP Federal Financial implementation experience in Business Analyst role(s)

• Experience documenting SAP Business process models

• Experience with SAP Federal Posting models to achieve USSGL compliant financial transactions

• Experience writing Customer journey and program journey maps to understand needs of users (people and systems)

• Experience documenting Feature (Program) Backlog to define required capabilities of solution SAP architectural recommendations to explore options for supporting financial processes

• Knowledge of SAP configuration to support solutions and documentation

• Experience facilitating Organizational impact assessment of SAP financial processes

• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, oral and written communication skills

• Ability to write technical, business, and plain language documents and/or emails, with great attention to detail in all written communications

• Ability to work on multiple projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project leader

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's Degree - Required

Required Certifications:

• No required certifications

• SAP, Agile, SAFe certifications desired

Other:

• Must be US Citizen