Business​/Systems Analyst-Accounts Payable Systems

Position Description The Business/Systems Analyst will analyze business and information needs across the Laboratory and develop effective systems solutions, with a strong focus on Accounts Payable (AP), payment processing, vendor management, and related financial processes.

Serving as a key link between business groups and Digital Solutions (DS), this role is responsible for identifying business issues and improvement opportunities, documenting requirements, and translating them into functional system designs. The Analyst will configure, test, and support solutions that meet AP and financial business needs while aligning with Laboratory standards, controls, and policies.

Primary Duties Accounts Payable Systems Support and Continuous Improvement Maintain strong knowledge of AP applications and processes, including SAP FI‑AP, vendor invoicing, PO and non‑PO invoices, invoice matching, payment processing, vendor master data, and related postings.

Understand SAP procurement functionality needed to support AP, including purchase orders, goods receipts, invoice verification, and FI/MM/SRM integration.

Support end‑to‑end AP processes and related integration points across purchasing, receiving, general ledger, cash management, and financial reporting.

Identify, analyze, and document business and system requirements, process flows, and key decisions.

Partner with AP, Financial Services, DS, and business stakeholders to identify opportunities for standardization, automation, improved controls, and efficiency.

Manage assigned projects and coordinate activities across DS and business teams.

Collaborate with AP and financial process owners to document solution designs, including interfaces, logic, reports, workflows, integrations, and data needs.

Develop and communicate functional specifications for configuration, programming, workflow, or reporting changes.

Serve as a primary functional and QA tester for configuration and development work.

Test system enhancements and new functionality to ensure alignment with business needs, financial controls, and data requirements.

Maintain advanced knowledge of SAP AP master data, transactional data, configuration concepts, and table structures.

Monitor critical interfaces between SAP AP and external systems such as MIT Campus, banking systems, and SRM.Support payment processes, invoice matching and exceptions, vendor master data, and financial reporting needs.

Assess authorization roles and controls related to AP, vendor data, invoice approval, and payments.

Troubleshoot complex AP, vendor, payment, and integration issues and recommend sustainable improvements.

Collaborate with Financial Services, DS, and business stakeholders to resolve operational and system issues.

Support internal controls, audit requirements, and upstream process dependencies.

Systems Upgrade and Implementation Maintain regression test scenarios for AP, vendor master, invoice processing, payments, SRM integration, and related interfaces.

Perform functional and regression testing and coordinate testing with business partners.

Identify and document impacts to AP processes from system updates, upgrades, or configuration changes.

Evaluate downstream impacts across invoice receipt, validation, matching, approval, payment, accounting, and reporting.

Document testing procedures, results, defects, and resolutions.

Support implementation and stabilization of new AP, invoice automation, workflow, vendor management, and payment capabilities.

Communication, Collaboration, and Training Document and communicate ongoing work, requirements, designs, and system/process changes.

Work closely with AP, Financial Services, DS, and business teams to ensure standard processes and system functionality are used where appropriate.

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