Business Analyst with Contract & Procurement

Resource should have knowledge and understanding of SAP Ariba, Source to Pay, Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and process.

Roles and Responsibilities:
- Capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements and translate into functionality.
- Assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impact. Assess and model processes, data flows, and technology to understand the current value and issues, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Create / update clear documentation of requirements to align with the solution over the project lifecycle.
- Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs through testing and scope changes, to final solution.
- Interact with software suppliers, designers and developers to understand software limitations, deliver elements of system and database design, and ensure that business requirements and use cases are handled.
- Configure and document software and processes, using agreed standards and tools. Create acceptance criteria and validate that solutions meet business needs, through defining and coordinating testing.
- Create and present compelling business cases to justify solution value and establish approval, funding and prioritization.
- Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and control Business Analysis activities on projects within agreed parameters of cost, time and quality.
- Lead stakeholder management activities and large design sessions. Lead teams to complete business analysis on projects.
- Configure and document software and processes.
- Define and coordinate testing.

Mandatory skills:
- Agile project experience.
- Understand Agile frameworks and tools.
- Educate stakeholders including Product Owners and Business partners in Agile ways of working.
- Understand systems engineering concepts, data/process analysis and modeling, products solutions.

Optional skills:
- Agile certifications/trainings preferred.
- CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) or PMI-PBA certification preferred.
- Lean Practitioner training and experience are an asset.

Skills:

• Business Analysis
• Credit Risk Management
• Document Management