Website Dana Corporation
Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets – passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off-highway equipment – Dana provides the world’s original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.
The Business Analyst will work with the SAP COE team to define technical specifications & requirements to meet the business process, data needs, and approve application code changes ensuring high-quality functional results and stable IT systems with minimal impact to business processes. The responsibilities include identifying, recommending, and implementation of ideas to improve the information management and business analytics usage through the assessment of current system capabilities and identifying high-level customer requirements. As well as, explore, learn, and develop educational materials and programs to further the usage of analytics toolsets throughout the organization. The BA responds to and diagnoses system, process, and data issues through discussions with business users and internal IT service teams and is responsible for leveraging resources across the organization to provide resolution.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities:
- Develops and maintains good working relationships with customers
- Supports SAP Material Management area in the use and optimization of SAP
- Participates in SAP Implementations within our Dana Facilities
- Defines and gathers requirements for enhancements and implementations within the SAP MM Module
- Develops the functional specifications of new and changed processes
- Ensures all system processes, customizations, and configurations meet quality standards
- Works with developers and technical staff to implement functional specifications and resolve any issues with SAP MM Module
- Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported, and resolved in a timely manner
Education and/or Experience:
Education
Bachelor’s degree in a business or technical discipline required or may consider equivalent 6-8 years related professional experience
Experience
- 5+ years related professional experience
- Implementation and application support experience within SAP Material Management Module
- SAP Sales and Distribution, MES, EDI, and Loftware knowledge a plus
- Language Skills
- English (fluency in reading, writing and speaking)
Certifications
- None required
Additional skills
- Experience requirements include working with and/or facilitating:
- Project methodology
- Gathering information and/or data gathering process
- Developing process models
- Developing functional specifications of new processes
- Developing functional integration test specifications
- Conducting test and conducting customer acceptance test
- Working with fundamental business processes and identifying the impact one business process can have on another
- Identifying, developing, and delivering training required for implementation
- Providing second tier support
Core Competencies:
- Above average analytical skills
- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical users
- Above average decision-making skills
- Effective team player
- Above average presentation skills
- Above average oral and written communications skills
- Works with problems of limited scope and complexity where analysis of the situation or data requires a choice of learned factors which generally conform to established patterns
- Exercises judgment using standard practices and procedures from which answers can be readily obtained
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.