FASTTEK GLOBALpowered by Fast Switch - Great Lakes
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Business Analyst - Purchasing #1016264
Job Description:
- This position leads the development of applying technology to satisfy Global Purchasing business needs.
- In thisrole, you will act as the liaison among internal stakeholders to analyze, document, communicate, and validate business and system requirements.
- In addition to that, this role will lead application support best practices.
Major Responsibilities:
- Leads key initiatives, implementations, enhancements, and integration activities for Global Purchasing applications.
- Defines and gathers business requirements for enhancements and implementations within the Global Purchasing space.
- Develops the functional specification of the new processes, logical data model, and physical environment.
- Works with developers and technical staff to implement functional specifications and resolve any issues.
- Ensures all system processes, customizations, and configurations meet quality standards.
- Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved promptly.
- Develop and execute test plans to ensure system functionality.
- Provide comprehensive training to end users on how to utilize purchasing systems effectively.
- Manage ongoing support requests and administrative needs.
- Provide support when needed on a 24x7x365 basis for our application environments.
- Ability to work in a diverse environment and when needed, to utilize conflict resolution skills
- Ability to work weekends and late hours as needed to support and achieve key program milestones.
- Travel to site locations (including international) as needed (<20%).
Position Requirements:
Education:
- A bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in a related discipline such as information systems, computer science, or supply chain management.
- SAP Materials Management / Purchasing experience is mandatory.
- SAP ECC 6.0 or S/4 Hana experience is a plus.
Experience:
- 7-10 years of related professional experience.
- Ariba Procure to Pay and Invoicing experience.
- Experience in managing offshore functional and development activities from design through user acceptance.
Experience requirements include working with and/or facilitating:
- Project methodology.
- Gathering information and/or data gathering process.
- Developing process models.
- Developing functional specifications of new processes, data, and physical environment.
- Developing functional integration test specifications, conducting tests, and conducting customer acceptance testing.
- Working with all types of business processes, understanding the components of each business process and how various business processes integrate.
Job Description: Business Analyst Purchasing
- Identifying critical issues with ease.
Corporate or manufacturing site experience in the following functional areas:
- Direct and Indirect Purchasing.
- Vendor Invoicing.
- Vendor Pricing.
- Purchase Orders / Scheduling Agreements.
- Vendor Master.
- Knowledge of EDI.
- Language:
- English (fluency in reading, writing, and speaking).
Additional Skills:
- Strong functional acumen with a high level of experience in the Procure to Pay workstream.
- People management skills; fosters good relationships with team members.
- Strong presentation skills; creates appropriate oral and written communications for a variety of audiences.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills; attention to detail.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify and resolve issues and challenges.
- Strong personal computer skills required.