Gerdau North America · 5 hours ago
Sap Consultant
Tampa, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expGerdau North America is focused on empowering people who build the future, and they are seeking an SAP Payroll Business Analyst to enhance their IT solutions related to Payroll, Tax, and Posting processes. The role involves gathering and documenting business requirements, facilitating projects, and collaborating with various business areas to improve operational performance through IT solutions.
Consumer Goods
No H1B
Responsibilities
Gathering requirements including conducting focus groups, behavioral observations, interviews, etc. to gather requirements; integrating multiple user requirements into one overall requirement document, identifying inconsistencies, gaps, and conflicts in requirements; recommending different approaches to gathering requirements in order to meet the business needs; and determining how well-suited requirements are to supporting business processes
Coordinating Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates
Designing and documenting business processes and functions; including techniques such as use cases, workflows, and business process diagrams for appropriate system(s)
Translating business requirements into functional specifications
Project management: utilizing a structured software development lifecycle methodology
Relationship management: ability to establish relationships based on trust and confidence, to create collaborative relationships, and to actively manage and track issues until they are resolved
Business case management: balancing scope, quality, effort, schedule, budget, and risk simultaneously; explaining how the release schedule affects the business case measures and coordinating business case changes with project management
Requirements and functional design facilitation and documentation; including modeling tools and methods for appropriate system(s)
Defining and addressing change management requirements necessary to implement process changes
Measuring current and future business process impacts in the effort of defining more accurate measures of return on investment for proposed information technology solutions
Develop relationships with user community and leadership to maintain open communication channels for the IT department to understand business conditions, operational challenges, and potential opportunities where Information Technologies may be leveraged to enhance the performance of the business unit
Be an active participant with leadership in tactical and business planning processes, operational planning/review processes, and communication processes to understand business requirements for IT solutions
Keep current on industry- and/or functional-related products, procedures, and/or workflow needs associated with information technology and our business
Conduct forums and meetings, ensuring that all viewpoints, ideas and problems are addressed
Work with business and IT to identify solution requirements
Identify, verify, and document functional and solution requirements using requirements management methodology and tools
Participate in the design reviews to ensure all business requirements will be met
Provide guidance to other Business Analysts
Working with the business to analyze and design business process
Facilitate forums and meetings, ensuring that all viewpoints, ideas, and problems are addressed
Document business processes
Having the understanding of evolving business needs, deliver the program to ensure IT services are keeping pace with the changes
Proactively highlight concerns relating to information technology solutions and propose solutions that need to be implemented to avoid the concern
Educate the business on the emerging services that IT is/will be offering to keep them informed of IT change
Implement new business technology solutions
Ensure that requirements are met, tested, and implemented
Transition the requirements and process documentation to the designers, and ensure a clear and complete understanding
Identify and resolve gaps between new and existing business processes and applications
Work with Quality Assurance group to review and ensure that requirements and processes meet established quality standards
Facilitate User Acceptance Testing and Sign-Off prior to implementation scheduling
Incorporate needs, wants, and goals from different business unit perspectives into business requirements
Ensure documented requirements meet business needs
Identify conflicting requirements
Provide alternatives/options to identified problems
Facilitate training
Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, including communicating instructions and information clearly and accurately to all user levels
Provide a high level of customer service
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree combined with a minimum of 4-6 years relevant work experience, business background in manufacturing is a plus
Solid knowledge of data analysis, end user requirement analysis, business requirements, and SLA development
Experience with SAP IMG configuration
Functional experience and knowledge of SAP Modules and best practices
Experience preparing and executing application and testing scenarios and program specifications pertaining to SAP
Problem solving skills including providing alternative options/approaches through the use of cost-benefit comparisons, identifying potential impacts of problems, and identifying and solving team problems
Working knowledge of current systems software, protocols, and standards
Experience with data processing modeling techniques and project management application
Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
Solid knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
Solid knowledge of applicable security best practices and procedures
Experience working in a matrix organization
Excellent multi-tasking skills
Strong written and oral communication skills, with ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
Experience creating technical documentation
Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
Gathering requirements including conducting focus groups, behavioral observations, interviews, etc. to gather requirements; integrating multiple user requirements into one overall requirement document, identifying inconsistencies, gaps, and conflicts in requirements; recommending different approaches to gathering requirements in order to meet the business needs; and determining how well-suited requirements are to supporting business processes
Coordinating Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates
Designing and documenting business processes and functions; including techniques such as use cases, workflows, and business process diagrams for appropriate system(s)
Translating business requirements into functional specifications
Project management: utilizing a structured software development lifecycle methodology
Relationship management: ability to establish relationships based on trust and confidence, to create collaborative relationships, and to actively manage and track issues until they are resolved
Business case management: balancing scope, quality, effort, schedule, budget, and risk simultaneously; explaining how the release schedule affects the business case measures and coordinating business case changes with project management
Requirements and functional design facilitation and documentation; including modeling tools and methods for appropriate system(s)
Defining and addressing change management requirements necessary to implement process changes
Measuring current and future business process impacts in the effort of defining more accurate measures of return on investment for proposed information technology solutions
SAP full payroll processes (E2E) for US and Canada, integration and dependencies
Capabilities to drive business requirements, analysis, configuration, validation, troubleshooting, training and support
HCM Personal Administration payroll integration and dependencies
SuccessFactors Employee central payroll integration and dependencies (2020)
SuccessFactors EC integration and SAP on-premise North America (US and Canada) Payroll (2020)
Time Systems payroll integration and dependencies
Benefits systems payroll integration and dependencies
FI/CO payroll configuration, integration and dependencies
Capabilities to analyze, change and support US and Canadian Payroll Rules and Schemas
BSI Tax Factory Regulatory capabilities to drive BSI full process installation, registration, servers, configuration, TUB (Tax Update Bulletin) updates and cyclic upgrades
Capabilities to understand and design calculation rules for client-specific requirements and adapted payroll process to support CBA's (collective bargain agreements) and Union Due Calculations
Configured business rules framework for varying state rules and deduction policies for recouping overpayments and achieved regulatory compliance by adhering to state and federal regulations
Capabilities to drive and implement Year End and Begin of Year payroll process and legal changes for US and Canada
Capabilities to evaluate Supported Package and SAP notes for payroll and dependencies and drive the impacts and full implementation cycle
Employee Self Service configuration and support capabilities for online Paycheck, W2, W4 and T4
Streamlined SAP HCM User payroll roles and security for HR Data Maintenance and Tax reporting
Garnishment capabilities for order types for different states, Disposable nets, and Nonexempt amount models
Regular payroll and off-cycles
Gross to Net
Garnishment
Taxes
3rd Party Remittance
Posting
General Ledger posting troubleshooting
Tax Reporting for US and Canada
Tax Reciprocator
Smart Forms capabilities
Payroll Process Models
US W2 and W4 Tax process and forms implementation
CA T4 Tax process and forms implementation
AspireHR Tax Reporting for US tax extraction
Ceridian Tax reporting for US
Payroll Result Adjustment
Overpayment Recovery Process for US and CA
Quarterly and Year End tax reporting and reconciliation
All the payroll runs, subsequent activities, and assisted end users in bug fixing and issues resolution
Accruals posting for US and Canada
Shift Premium calculations
Payroll Calendars updates
Canada and US Year End/Year Begin legal updates
IRS Garnishment Tax Levy Updates
Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)
Check Payment posting
Canada Vacation Pay
3PR – Third Part Remittance, 3PR completeness check
Workers Compensation
Payment Model
Void Payroll process and posting
Preferred
CCBA Certification is desired
Company
Gerdau North America
In North America, Gerdau manufactures merchant bar, structural steel, piling, special bar quality and rebar products for the agricultural, automotive, civil construction, distribution, energy, industrial, and mining markets.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Brittany Concepcion , MBA(HRM)
Human Resources Business Partner
Christy McDonald, CIR, PRC, CSMR, CSSR
Regional Talent Acquisition Partner
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