Senior Business Analyst - SAP S/4HANA

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Business Analyst – SAP S/4HANA based in Canada. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, with a primary focus on inventory management and contracting processes. You will work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to translate business needs into effective functional solutions. Your responsibilities will span requirements gathering, business process mapping, fit-gap analysis, and functional design. You will also contribute to data mapping, testing strategies, and user acceptance testing to ensure a smooth and successful migration. This remote contract opportunity offers the chance to contribute to a major enterprise transformation while improving operational processes and system efficiency. Your expertise will help bridge the gap between business objectives and technology delivery, ensuring solutions meet organizational needs. Accountabilities: - Elicit, analyze, validate, and document business and functional requirements for inventory management and contracting workstreams within the SAP S/4HANA migration program. - Assess existing SAP ECC processes and map current-state workflows, identifying opportunities to define and implement optimized future-state processes in SAP S/4HANA. - Conduct fit-gap analyses to evaluate differences between current business operations and future system capabilities, identifying functional impacts, process gaps, and potential solutions. - Translate business requirements into clear, detailed functional specifications to support SAP configuration, development, and implementation activities.

- Collaborate with business stakeholders, SAP functional consultants, technical teams, and migration specialists to ensure alignment between business objectives and technical deliverables. - Support data mapping and migration activities, helping ensure business data is accurately aligned with the target SAP S/4HANA environment. - Develop test scenarios and test cases, support user acceptance testing (UAT) planning and coordination, and help validate that implemented solutions meet business requirements. - Prepare and maintain process documentation, functional requirements, workflow descriptions, and end-user training materials to support implementation and adoption. - Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical or functional migration teams, facilitating discussions, resolving requirement-related issues, and maintaining clear communication throughout the project. - Contribute to organizational change and end-user readiness activities to help ensure a smooth transition to the new system and associated business processes. Requirements: - Bring at least 7 years of business analysis experience within SAP programs, with strong functional expertise in SAP Materials Management (SAP MM), inventory management, and contracting processes. - Demonstrate practical knowledge of both SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, including a strong understanding of enterprise business processes and system functionality. - Have proven experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and managing business requirements, as well as translating business needs into actionable functional specifications. - Possess hands-on experience with business process mapping, current-state and future-state analysis, fit-gap assessments, and functional impact analysis. - Demonstrate experience supporting data mapping, test case development, UAT planning, test coordination, and validation of business requirements. - Have strong documentation skills and the ability to produce clear, structured, and accurate functional specifications, process documentation, and training materials.