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SAP Business Analyst
Epsilon Solutions LTD
🇨🇦 Canada
On-site
6 months ago
- SAP
- Data Modeling
- Change Management
- SuccessFactors
- O365
- Excel
- Visio
- Jira
- Confluence
6 months ago
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: Contract
Assignment Duties
Primary responsibilities for the Business Analyst position are varied and include the following:
- Implements detailed plans and recommends policies and procedures regarding program specific requirements related to SAP BW to SAP Datasphere migration initiatives
- Facilitates meetings with business stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to determine requirements for migrated data, reports, analytics, metadata, training, service levels, data quality, and system performance
- Analyzes existing SAP BW reports, queries, extractors, data models, and business processes to understand current state functionality and usage
- Documents and translates business and analytical requirements into functional specifications supporting SAP Datasphere target state solutions
- Coordinates with technical teams and external vendors to define source to target mappings, data transformation rules, reconciliation requirements, and cutover activities for BW to Datasphere migration
- Supports vendor engagement activities, including requirements clarification, design review, issue resolution, and validation of delivered solutions
- Identifies gaps between legacy SAP BW functionality and SAP Datasphere capabilities and recommends solutions aligned with corporate data, analytics, and architecture standards
- Leads and contributes to the design, creation, development, and sustainment of analytics and data standards, including data modeling, metadata management, documentation standards, and change management
- Coordinates and supports system development lifecycle activities, including migration planning, data validation, parallel testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Ensures all required documentation is created, maintained, and approved, including business requirements documents, functional specifications, data mappings, test scenarios, reconciliation results, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials
- Recommends and implements security, privacy, and quality assurance requirements consistent with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), and corporate and legislated standards regarding the storage, processing, and retention of confidential data
- Informs and educates business users and stakeholders on changes resulting from migration initiatives, including impacts to reports, metrics, analytics, and downstream processes
- Supports postmigration stabilization, issue resolution, vendor coordination, and continuous improvement of SAP Datasphere solutions
Qualifications
Applications for the Business Analyst role should demonstrate qualifications related to the following:
- University degree in computer science, information systems, business, or a related discipline, and/or extensive experience working as a Business Analyst on large-scale information technology or analytics modernization initiatives, or an equivalent combination of education and hands-on experience.
- Proven experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements for enterprise data, reporting, and system migration projects, with previous experience on HR and Payroll or S/4 data domains.
- Demonstrated expertise inSAP BW and SAP Datasphere, with direct involvement in data and analytics migration activities, including the mapping of data fields and validation of legacy data to the new platform.
- Functional knowledge ofHuman Resources, Payroll, and workforce data, including experience withSAP SuccessFactors, to ensure accurate migration and reconciliation of sensitive employee information.
- Experience coordinating with technical teams and external vendors throughout the design, build, testing, and deployment phases, ensuring requirements are accurately captured, clarified, and implemented.
- Strong background in analyzing legacy SAP BW data models and reports, including hands-on validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting of migrated datasets to support business continuity.
- Proficiency with business analysis and documentation tools (such as O365, Excel, Visio, Jira, Confluence, etc.) to produce comprehensive business requirements, process flows, data mappings, and migration documentation.
- In-depth knowledge of data modelling concepts, migration testing practices, data quality management, and a focus on supporting compliance and privacy requirements relevant to HR and Payroll data migration initiatives.
Additional Requirements
- Strong analytical skills to assess complex legacy data environments and support delivery of target state analytics solutions
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders during migration and change initiatives
- Ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently in a complex transformation environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skill
SAP Business Analyst · Epsilon Solutions LTD