Business Analyst - SAP Lease & Real Estate Implementation

<b>Intermediate/Senior Business Analyst - SAP Lease & Real Estate Implementation</b><br><b> Contract position</b><br><b> Location: Calgary</b><br><br>Overview/Background:<br> Our clients Corporate Project Management Office (CPMO) is hiring a business-focused Business Analyst for the SAP Lease & Real Estate Implementation project. The ideal candidate will have experience with SAP Lease & Real Estate, SAP Finance, and/or SAP S4HANA. The ideal candidate will have experience with identifying the needs of the business, eliciting business requirements, facilitating workshops to derive the overall direction it should take to succeed, developing process descriptions and procedural documentation, building workflows, translating business requirements to the technical team members, confirming design will meet the business requirements, leading quality assurance and testing activities across the team, leading detailed cutover activities and transitioning the work of the project team to the operational teams post go-live. It is also important for the candidate to have experience and strength in managing complex business scenarios and dynamic stakeholder groups and ensuring effective synchronizations between competing corporate initiatives.<br><br>This opportunity will appeal to an individual who enjoys working as an individual and in a team environment, who has ability and experience of working with PM to gain senior leader's buy-in, and who demonstrates effective strategic and critical thinking, problem-solving and facilitation skills, is adaptable and able effectively complete deliverables in a timely fashion. This Business Analyst will also utilize standard best practices as required to support the activity execution, and has a key understanding of transition to operations, and development of processes and procedures.<br><br>This role will report to the Project Manager and work closely business/functional areas and project team members.<br><br>Level of Experience:<br> <ul> <li>Intermediate (6 - 12 years)</li> <li>Senior (12 years)</li> </ul> <br><br>Work Environment:<br> <ul> <li>Our downtown Calgary office (for candidates in Greater Calgary Areas)</li> <li>Must be able to perform work 8:00am-5:00pm Mountain Time</li> </ul> <br><br>Responsibilities:<br> <ul> <li>Lead and participate in process reviews or development and updates to or creation of associated documentation working with stakeholders</li> <li>Participate in standards and process creation, reviews, updates, development and documentation</li> <li>Deliver and/or participate in standards, policies or process education and awareness</li> <li>Successfully engage, drive and facilitate multiple initiatives and deliverables simultaneously</li> <li>Work independently with users to define concepts or workflows and under direction of project managers</li> <li>Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language</li> <li>Collaborate with project team members including subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs</li> <li>Be the liaison between the project teams, technology teams and support teams</li> <li>Manage and execute on required stakeholder and client engagement across project deliverables to support project plan and scope outline</li> <li>Collaborate with project team members to progress the project forward as per project plan and scope outline</li> <li>Manage and participate in Transition to Operations scope and activities for services and/or products built by the project team</li> <li>Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis</li> <li>Lead the quality assurance/testing activities for the software implementation</li> <li>Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs</li> <li>Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: functional requirements (business requirements document), use cases, workflow diagrams, and context diagrams</li> </ul> <br><br> Capabilities:<br> To ensure the effective execution of responsibilities, the Business Analyst should demonstrate a high proficiency in the following key technical and behavioural competencies:<br> <ul> <li>Strategic thinking</li> <li>Analytical/critical thinking</li> <li>Problem solving</li> <li>Decision making</li> <li>System (big picture) thinking</li> <li>Industry knowledge</li> <li>Ability to understand the business architecture being analyzed</li> <li>Solution knowledge</li> <li>Verbal communication</li> </ul> <br>Written communication<br> Facilitation & negotiation<br> Influence without authority<br> Teamwork<br><br>Qualifications:<br> <ul> <li>Must be legally entitled to work in Canada</li> <li>At least 6-12 years of demonstrated working experience as a Business Analyst role (or similar)</li> <li>Proven experience with use case and 'day in the life' scenario development</li> </ul> <br><br> Additional Requirements:<br> Experience:<br> <ul> <li>Oil & Gas experience - an asset</li> <li>Lease Accounting experience - an asset</li> </ul> <br><br><b>About Petroplan</b><br> <br>Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.<br> <br>Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.<br> <br>In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.<br> <br>Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. 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