Senior Business Analyst, SAP S4 Finance

Senior Business Analyst, Finance (FI/CO)

Emmerson Packaging is a third-generation family-owned company. We are an industry leader in flexible packaging solutions, and we love what we do! We pride ourselves on meeting and exceeding the highest quality standards in everything we do, including adding talented people to our team! This passion and pride have won us the distinction of being named one of Canada’s Best Managed companies for 17 years running.

This is a full-time, temporary position (salaried 1-year term, with renewal anticipated through go-live and hypercare).

Our Values say it best:

• We enhance our lives by helping others succeed
• We care about our clients, each other, and our communities
• We are responsible for the outcome of our actions
• We strive to do the right thing, even if it costs us

The Senior Business Analyst, Finance owns the finance and controlling workstream for our S/4

HANA program, translating how Emmerson Packaging closes its books, costs its products and manages tax into a clean-core S/4

HANA design. In this role, you will be the bridge between Finance leadership, our systems integrator and the PMO, and you will support Finance as it takes on ownership of pricing after the conversion.

Emmerson Packaging is moving from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4

HANA through a RISE with SAP Brownfield system conversion, and we are hiring experienced business analysts to help lead the design. The program is run by our Program Management Office (PMO) and is the company’s primary strategic initiative. Phase 0 discovery with our systems integrator partners runs through December 2026, followed by Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy and Run. You will shape a Day 1 design for a real manufacturing business, work directly with business process owners in 24 departments, and have visible impact on how the company runs for the next decade.

• Reports to: ERP Program Manager and PMO Lead
• Team: S/4
  
  HANA implementation team within the PMO, working with business process owners, SMEs and systems integrator consultants
• Location: Hybrid, Atlantic Canada or Ontario, with travel to our Amherst, NS and Belleville, ON plants
• Travel: Up to 25%, heavier during workshops, testing and cutover

• Leads fit-to-standard workshops for record-to-report, procure-to-pay (finance side), order-to-cash (billing, AR, revenue) and fixed assets
• Documents current-state ECC processes and gaps, and defines future-state design in the Universal Journal (ACDOCA), including ledger, segment and profit center structure
• Designs product costing and controlling: standard cost estimates, production order costing, variance analysis, WIP and settlement, and Material Ledger / actual costing in S/4
  
  HANA
• Defines margin analysis (CO-PA) requirements for customer, product and plant profitability, including surcharge and pricing condition flows from SD
• Supports the move of pricing governance into Finance after the conversion: SD pricing procedures, customer price records and price lists, surcharges, and standardized pricing and cost-estimating processes within SAP
• Owns tax and compliance requirements:
  Canadian GST/HST, cross-border (Canada/US) transactions, Incoterms-driven tax determination and customs valuation
• Leads finance conversion readiness and validation: simplification items, Universal Journal migration, mandatory Material Ledger activation, new asset accounting, and reconciliation of balances, open items and history before and after conversion
• Writes functional specifications for reports, interfaces and extensions, keeping custom code out of the core wherever possible
• Builds test scenarios, leads integration and user acceptance testing with Finance, and supports cutover, month-end dry runs and hypercare
• Supports change management and…