Business Analyst (SAP Finance)

Accountabilities: Business requirements gathering and analysis: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand operational needs, financial processes, and business objectives. Gather, analyse, document, and validate business and functional requirements, ensuring they are clear, complete, and aligned with project goals. SAP Finance functional expertise: Apply strong functional knowledge of SAP Finance (FI) to assess existing business processes, identify gaps, and recommend practical solutions. Support finance-related processes involving General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), financial accounting, financial reporting, and integration with other business functions. Functional specifications and solution design: Translate business requirements into structured functional specifications that technical teams can use to design and implement solutions. Work closely with SAP specialists, developers, and other technology teams to clarify requirements and ensure proposed solutions address business needs. Stakeholder engagement and collaboration: Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, SAP teams, and technology partners. Facilitate workshops, working sessions, and stakeholder meetings, ensuring effective communication, alignment, and timely resolution of questions or conflicting requirements. Business process improvement: Analyse existing workflows and finance processes to identify inefficiencies, process gaps, and opportunities for improvement. Recommend appropriate solutions that enhance operational effectiveness, support business objectives, and align with enterprise requirements. Testing and implementation support: Contribute to solution validation, test planning, and implementation activities. Develop and review test scenarios, support user acceptance testing (UAT), coordinate feedback, and help ensure delivered solutions meet documented requirements and business expectations. Issue management and resolution: Identify, investigate, and analyse functional issues throughout the project lifecycle. Work with business and technical teams to determine root causes, assess impacts, and coordinate appropriate resolutions. Documentation and project reporting: Maintain accurate and accessible business requirements, functional specifications, process documentation, test scenarios, and project records. Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, outstanding decisions, and requirement changes clearly to relevant stakeholders. Cross-functional project support: Contribute to requirements analysis, solution design, and delivery activities across distributed teams. Support alignment between business priorities and technical implementation while helping ensure projects remain focused on agreed outcomes. Requirements: Professional experience: At least eight years of experience working as a Business Analyst in enterprise technology or consulting environments, with strong functional expertise and hands-on experience in SAP Finance. Experience supporting complex business and technology initiatives is essential. SAP Finance expertise: Strong functional knowledge of SAP Finance (SAP FI), including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), financial accounting, financial reporting, and integration between SAP Finance and other business functions. The ability to understand how finance processes are supported within SAP is critical. Business analysis and requirements management: Proven experience gathering, analysing, documenting, validating, and managing business and functional requirements. You should be able to translate business needs into clear, structured specifications that support technical design and implementation. Business process analysis: Demonstrated ability to assess existing business workflows, identify process gaps, analyse business challenges, and recommend effective improvements. Strong functional analysis and problem-solving skills are essential. Stakeholder management and communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage business stakeholders, technical specialists, and cross-functional teams. Experience facilitating workshops, managing expectations, clarifying requirements, and communicating complex information clearly is required. Testing and implementation: Experience supporting solution design, test scenario development, user acceptance testing (UAT), issue analysis, and implementation activities. The ability to validate solutions against business requirements and coordinate feedback is important. Analytical and documentation skills: Strong attention to detail, structured thinking, and the ability to maintain accurate requirements, process, and project documentation. You should be comfortable identifying dependencies, assessing impacts, and supporting informed decision-making. Enterprise and consulting environment: Experience working in complex enterprise organisations or consulting settings, with an understanding of structured project delivery and collaboration across business and technology functions. Independent and collaborative working style: Ability to manage responsibilities independently while working effectively with distributed international teams. A proactive mindset, adaptability, accountability, and a collaborative approach are essential. Remote work and availability: Candidates must be based in India and able to work remotely with significant overlap with Canadian business hours. Regular availability until at least 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST), as specified in the role requirements, is mandatory. Availability to join: Immediate joiners are strongly preferred due to the expected start requirements of this six-month contract. Benefits: Fully remote working arrangement from India. Six-month contract offering the opportunity to contribute to enterprise-level business and technology initiatives. Opportunity to apply and deepen SAP Finance expertise across key financial processes and business functions. Collaboration with international stakeholders and cross-functional business and technical teams. Exposure to complex enterprise and consulting environments. Opportunities to contribute to business process improvements, solution design, testing, and implementation. Scope to leverage analytical, functional, and stakeholder management skills in impactful project work.