Business Systems Analyst

7 days ago


Toronto, Canada Canada Life Assurance Company Full time

**Job Description**:
This role would be providing the consulting and implementation services to our clients within the Global Corporate Technology portfolio with a focus on Finance and specifically Collections and Disbursements (FS-CD) within SAP for Insurance solution. You will act as a trusted advisor supporting business as they evolve their technical footprint on their transformational journey to cloud and SaaS models.

**What you will do**:

- Consulting & Advisory:_
- Acts as a trusted advisor to internal clients by proactively building relationships with the business, colleagues, and external stakeholders to understand business as-is state and roadmap.
- Works in partnership with preferred vendors to understand product roadmaps and recommend new solutions and ideas to enhance business model.
- Uses industry consulting methodologies to understand business requests/expected outcomes to translate and document them into requirements, prototypes and/or technical solutions.
- Evaluates current business problems and provides advice on the applicability and usability of alternative technology products or solutions.
- Leads conversations in ambiguous situations and influences discussions to guide clients to made decisions/ come to resolution on outstanding items/ issues.
- Leads meetings to communicate technical landscape and complexities to all relevant stakeholders.
- Works with businesses to identify prioritization conflicts and proposes alternative solutions or options.
- Provide inputs in promoting and implementing best-practice solutions for business processes and product capabilities (SAP Financials, and SAP for Insurance.
- Is actively plugged into external product communities, user groups, etc. and conducts research to develop knowledge and bring forward best practices and research ways to maximize business value for technical solutions.
- Technical Collaboration & Execution:_
- Leads the overall analysis, scoping, estimating and planning for large / complex initiatives with the PMO.
- Rationalizes and documents technology requirements that would match with proposed products/ services to address stakeholder needs.
- Works in partnership with internal colleagues and our external technical partners to investigate and research problems and provides solutions.
- Designs and delivers high quality solutions through system configuration and/or requesting technical development that meet overall business requirements.
- Design, develop, and implement functionality for required collections and disbursements processes. Work with business and IT teams to ensure business requirements are validated and system development goals are achieved.
- Provide technical support for the SAP FS-CD system maintenance and enhancements, including integration to other systems.
- Fulfills operational or enhancement work requests as needed.
- Is comfortable working with ambiguity.
- Transformation & Continuous Improvement:_
- Acts as a change agent by actively promoting the review and implementation of new department technologies, methods, practices and tools to evolve corporate technology’s product and service offerings.
- Proactively seeks out and recommends process, automation and system opportunities to reduce manual effort/time and decrease implementation time.
- Applies a high level of detail to work and consistently looks for ways to improve the quality of a product.

**What you will bring**:

- Background in insurance industry and payment processes (collections & disbursements).
- Excellent understanding of the end-to-end SAP FS-CD process, experience in FS-CD Master Data and payment plan items configuration.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience as Sr. BSA / Functional IT Consultant within Finance.
- Functional Background with cross-module experience including understanding of integration points across SAP on-premise modules (FS-CD, FI/CO, BW/BI)
- Experience providing design and develop matrix, process flow diagrams and functional specification documents for configuring the SAP system.
- Demonstrated ability to walkthrough existing business process and identify process gaps, provide detailed design document.
- Ability to analyze business requirements, identify areas of improvement and suggest alternative solutions
- You have experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Agile SCRUM methodologies and can review and execute test functional scripts.
- Minimum of 3 years providing consulting on large scale ERP technical/ SaaS implementations
- Minimum 2 years experience analyzing, configuring, testing, and deploying SAP FS-CD on premise functionality.
- Demonstrated functional understanding of SAP FS-CD, SAP FI-CO, and S4/HANA.
- Experience working with demanding business areas, managing relationships, and setting expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task, juggling multiple priorities in a professional manner.
- Ability to lead and collaborate remotely.

**What really sets you apart**:

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