29954 -RFR-DTS-035– Business Analyst

Office Location: Onsite & Remote

#Business Days: Up to 24 Month

Duration: The duration of the engagement may be for up to a 24-month term. Due to the nature of projects, there may be exceptional circumstances where the total term may be extended beyond 24 months. The 24-month term is anticipated to start with a 6-month initial term followed by up to 18-month renewal(s).

Description

SERVICES AND DELIVERABLES

All Services will be performed on-site with primary location at 215 Garry Street, Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba, regardless of the location of residence of the Proponent’s resource. The service location of the resource may change as a part of STATEMENT OF WORK between Proponent and Manitoba. Manitoba at its sole discretion may provide an option to work remotely. The remote working rate is the rate at which the proponent’s resource will work primarily remotely and called onsite if needed at Manitoba’s sole discretion. The onsite rate is the rate at which proponent’s resource will work primarily onsite as per the location defined in STATEMENT OF WORK and may work remotely if needed with prior written permission from Manitoba at its sole discretion.

Standard working hours for the resource will be in accordance with Manitoba usual working hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm CST (7.25 hours per day), Monday to Friday. Manitoba offices are closed on all Manitoba statutory holidays, and these days will be unpaid. Manitoba at its sole discretion may decide that at certain times extended working hours are needed to meet project deadlines. But extended working hours are to cover exceptional circumstances and may not be available during the entire duration of the engagement with the proponent’s resource. Overtime work cannot be used and billed unless approved by Manitoba with an advanced written approval.

Role Description

• The Business Analyst will have a minimum of 5 years of experience working with analysis of an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents, its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Represents process requirements in process design; o Provides detail and designs for the specific process;
• Supports GAP Analysis of required business process (at lowest level of detail) to
• SAP functionality; o Execute unit testing for configuration and custom development (for knowledge transfer);
• Provide support to security, data conversion, batch and system response time testing;
• Provide initial post implementation support to end users on production system; o Participate in solution scoping & planning and knowledge transfer sessions; o Participate in workshops ensuring all solution gaps are identified and addressed; o Participate in Solution design activities;
• Provide integration requirements for 3rd party and external systems; o Provide Master Data Inputs;
• Review data conversion approach for the objects in scope of the functional area; o Provide input to the batch job schedule and parameters to be used; o Validate business process design Deliverables; o Determine UAT test scripts;
• Provide input and support for the development of technical architecture
  
  

Deliverables

• Participate in Solution testing during Integration and User Acceptance testing;
• Acquire solution knowledge for post implementation support and ongoing maintenance;
• Review data definitions and the impact on all modules. Where required engage other leads to resolve conflicts;
• Works with appropriate user communities to understand data requirements and current definitions;
• Solicits and ensures input from locations / sites;
• Ensures business requirements (at lowest level of detail) will be met by the SAP
• System; o Review and provide feedback to change management team on communication efforts, change plans, job role definitions, training materials;
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Skill Requirements/Qualifications

A clean criminal record check status will be required at the proponent's expense prior to the successful Service Provider Resource(s) arriving onsite or working remotely. Maintaining a clean status is required throughout the Proponents contract. An enhanced background check, completed by Manitoba may be required on certain projects due to the confidentiality of the materials shared to the Proponent. If the proponent fails, they must rectify on their own cost and time.

The following are minimum qualifications and/or experience for the delivery of the Services.

The Resource must have the following minimum qualifications or experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Commerce or an equivalent field
• Minimum of seven (years of experience working as a business analyst
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience documenting/conducting process reengineering
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience writing use cases
• Must possess high level of communications, consulting, and client relationship skills. The Analyst must be able to clearly communicate complex technical and business concepts, both to clients (internal or external) and to team members, and to negotiate change
• Must be capable of effectively identifying and framing problems, leading the collection of elements of information, and integrating this information to produce timely and thoughtful decisions
• Prior experience with SAP (preferably focused on SAP Ariba, S4/HANA as it relates to
• Supply Chain Management, and FieldGlass) o Knowledge in one or more of the following areas (in order of preference):
• Procurement (including category management, contracting, tendering, requisition-to-pay, ordering, invoicing, spend analytics)
• Warehousing and inventory management o Other related experiences may also be considered
  

It is preferred that the Resource has the following qualifications or experience:

• Accreditation from Business Analyst professional association is considered an asset
• Knowledge of the Business Analysis Book of Knowledge (BABOK) is considered an asset
  
  

Eligibility and Application Steps

If you are enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity, we kindly request you to provide the following documents: [email protected]

Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.

• Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
• Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
• Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
• Visa Status (Mandatory)
• LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)
  
  

Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above. Feel free to share with your network or tag someone who fits for this role!

If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to call or text at (647) 408-1348.