Transportation SAP Functional Analyst

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Gordon Food Service is looking for a Transportation SAP Functional Analyst, reporting to the GTS Transportation Manager. This is the culmination of our 5 year transformational journey to re-imagine critical business processes, leveraging a best in class technology platform.

This business-led transformation will focus on process reengineering and standardization, measure success in terms of value delivered to the business, simplify operations by adopting industry best practices, and drive innovation by combining technology with optimized business processes.

What makes GTS Transportation a great team to be a part of?

As part of this team you will create roadmaps and guide the implementation of business capabilities which will lead our transportation teams into the future. You will have the opportunity to use your deep understanding of SAP, Transportation and IT systems to create solutions which differentiate GFS from the competition, serve our organizational customers and put us on the cutting edge of supply chain solutions and technology. Ultimately, you will directly contribute to solutions that are going to enable operational efficiency and innovation, bringing a financial benefit to the organization for scalable and continued growth.

Requirements & Qualifications:

As the Transportation SAP Functional Analyst, you'll use your deep functional and SAP S/4Hana application knowledge to translate business needs into artifacts to create and deliver a solution within a functional area of expertise. Business process or industry knowledge within a functional area can also enable you to support and guide the business process analyst through design, build and test of a project's business processes.

Your role will include activities throughout the development cycle:

Business Requirements

• Define business scenarios

• Define requirements including developing function object test approach

• Create functional specifications including data mining development

Design

• Design processes including batch jobs

• Design data process

• Conduct fit & gap analysis

• Configure software including design, enterprise structure, configuration of system, develop and conduct prototype

• Design master data including to-be master data object identification and design, reporting and analytics development

• Execute functional object testing including solution validation and populating function object test environment

Implementation

• Conduct super-user training

• Execute cut-over

• Stabilize the post go-live environment

• Provide longer term application management and maintenance, if required

What do we need from you?

Leading candidates will have:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Information Systems

• 5-8 years of previous ERP functional analysis or SAP S/4HANA software configuration experience

We are also seeking:

• A service oriented attitude

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• The ability to multi-task, prioritize and work both independently and as part of a fast-paced team

• Strong problem solving capabilities

• Analytics skills, including interpretation of customer business needs and ability to translate into application and operational requirements