Business Systems Analyst - FICO

Grainger is a business-to-business distributor of products used to maintain, repair or operate facilities. Millions of businesses and institutions worldwide rely on Grainger for pumps, motors, hand tools, janitorial supplies, fasteners and much more. These customers represent a broad collection of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, government and hospitality.

A business-facing resource responsible for transforming business objectives into a format that supports incremental delivery, executable requirements and automated testing. Supports the active product owner by providing discipline, rigor and technical knowledge to the requirement definition and validation process.

**Scoping** * Participates in scope definition and developing business requirements for the business * Provides business systems analysis and process redesign expertise, interacting with business partners to clearly define and document business requirements * Ability to identify a desired future state that addresses a business problem **Requirements** * Able to present business needs as a story and visualize requirements * May coordinate with the User Experience team to define when User Experience work is needed and how performing this work fits into the overall project schedule. **Technical Skills** * Participates in and/or drives the system configuration which meets security, architecture, and support requirements, all while satisfying business needs * Participates in system emergency or crisis situations to define/implement workaround processes, corrective action, communication, and system clean-up activities. **Testing** * Participates and/or coordinates required testing/validation of system enhancements and fixes, creating and/or executing the test cases including problem determination and resolution. * Coordinate with development team for resolution of defects or production issues.

* A minimum of 5 to 7 years of SAP FICO experience (General Ledger, COPA, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Asset Accounting) * Outstanding knowledge and experience in developing, configuring and implementing SAP FICO * Strong experience in supply chain business processes * Must have been involved with at least 2 full end to end FICO implementations * Work experience with Taxware, sales and use tax compliance and understanding of US Tax laws and regulations * A good understanding of the main integration points between FICO and SD, CRM, MM, WM, BW or ABAP * A Finance business background would be preferable with accounting qualification as an advantage * Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, customer service and problem solving skills * Bachelor degree in Business area or IS or equivalent work experience as appropriate based on job level (see matrix for specifics) * Knowledge of Agile/Lean framework and methodology * Ability to produce detailed, comprehensive software documentation, such as requirements specs, design docs, and change logs. (incorporate technical requirements for user stories) * Ability to work in a highly collaborative team consisting of both technical and business members where functionality is designed and released on a biweekly basis * Pursues learning beyond scope of current assignments. * Able to present complex technical information to a non-technical audience. * Ability to adapt to changing business processes, technologies, and environments.