Sr. Business Systems Analyst

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Sr. Business Systems Analyst (6069)

W.C. Bradley Co. is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst – Record to Report to serve as the primary IT functional lead for systems supporting Finance and Accounting with primary emphasis on SAP S/4

HANA Finance and Controlling (FI/CO).
The role has end-to-end responsibility for translating Finance and Accounting requirements into scalable technology solutions and ensuring that changes across the application landscape maintain process integrity, financial controls, data quality, and architectural consistency.
This role provides end-to-end functional and technical leadership for SAP capabilities supporting general ledger, financial close, consolidations and reporting, fixed assets, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cost center, profit center and finance, planning and analysis processes. The Senior Business Systems Analyst will serve as the principal liaison between Finance team stakeholders, IT, and related third party vendors such as SAP and managed-service providers.
The position is responsible for ensuring record to report technology solutions are stable, scalable, well-controlled, appropriately integrated, and aligned with business requirements
The role will transition day-to-day functional systems leadership from a business-led/vendor-coordination model to a sustainable IT-owned SAP operating model, while maintaining strong Finance ownership of financial policies, controls, and business processes.

SAP Finance & Controlling Leadership

• Provide functional leadership for SAP S/4
  
  HANA FI/CO, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, and related financial capabilities.
• Maintain a strong understanding of SAP configuration and business-process dependencies across Finance and Controlling.
• Lead functional design for FI/CO enhancements, integrations, upgrades, and new capabilities.
• Partner with Finance leadership and process owners to support General Ledger accounting, period-end close, intercompany activity, allocations, reconciliations, financial reporting, and management accounting.
• Troubleshoot complex R2R issues spanning SAP and other systems configuration, master data, integrations, transactions, and downstream reporting.
• Ensure application design are consistent with architectural guidelines and conform to security standards in support of Finance requirements while maintaining appropriate separation between business-process ownership and IT system ownership.

Managed Services & Vendor Leadership

• Serve as the primary IT liaison for the any application managed-services relationship directing and prioritizing support and development activities.
• Qualify vendor recommendations when appropriate and ensure solutions are technically sound, cost-effective, sustainable, and aligned with W.C. Bradley’s strategies.
• Reduce organizational dependency on external providers by strengthening internal SAP functional knowledge and documentation.

Production Support & Continuous Improvement

• Provide Level 2/3 functional support for complex SAP FI/CO and other finance related application issues.
• Lead root‑cause analysis for recurring or high-impact production issues.
• Coordinate resolution across Finance, IT, SAP technical teams, integration teams, and external providers.
• Support ongoing optimization of SAP S/4
  
  HANA capabilities following implementation.

Integration & Enterprise Architecture

• Understand and manage FI/CO dependencies with other SAP modules and enterprise applications.
• Partner with SAP Supply Chain, Order-to-Cash, Procurement, Data, Integration, Security, and Infrastructure resources to resolve…