Business Systems Analyst - Toronto, Canada - Canada Life Assurance Company

Canada Life Assurance Company

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Description:

This role would be providing the consulting and implementation services to our clients within the Global Corporate Technology portfolio with a focus on Finance and specifically Collections and Disbursements (FS-CD) within SAP for Insurance solution.

You will act as a trusted advisor supporting business as they evolve their technical footprint on their transformational journey to cloud and SaaS models.

What you will do:

Consulting & Advisory:_
Acts as a trusted advisor to internal clients by proactively building relationships with the business, colleagues, and external stakeholders to understand business asis state and roadmap.
Works in partnership with preferred vendors to understand product roadmaps and recommend new solutions and ideas to enhance business model.
Uses industry consulting methodologies to understand business requests/expected outcomes to translate and document them into requirements, prototypes and/or technical solutions.
Evaluates current business problems and provides advice on the applicability and usability of alternative technology products or solutions.
Leads conversations in ambiguous situations and influences discussions to guide clients to made decisions/ come to resolution on outstanding items/ issues.
Leads meetings to communicate technical landscape and complexities to all relevant stakeholders.
Works with businesses to identify prioritization conflicts and proposes alternative solutions or options.
Provide inputs in promoting and implementing bestpractice solutions for business processes and product capabilities (SAP Financials, and SAP for Insurance.
Is actively plugged into external product communities, user groups, etc. and conducts research to develop knowledge and bring forward best practices and research ways to maximize business value for technical solutions.
Technical Collaboration & Execution:_
Leads the overall analysis, scoping, estimating and planning for large / complex initiatives with the PMO.
Rationalizes and documents technology requirements that would match with proposed products/ services to address stakeholder needs.
Works in partnership with internal colleagues and our external technical partners to investigate and research problems and provides solutions.
Designs and delivers high quality solutions through system configuration and/or requesting technical development that meet overall business requirements.
Design, develop, and implement functionality for required collections and disbursements processes. Work with business and IT teams to ensure business requirements are validated and system development goals are achieved.
Provide technical support for the SAP FS-CD system maintenance and enhancements, including integration to other systems.
Fulfills operational or enhancement work requests as needed.
Is comfortable working with ambiguity.
Transformation &

Continuous Improvement:
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Acts as a change agent by actively promoting the review and implementation of new department technologies, methods, practices and tools to evolve corporate technology's product and service offerings.
Proactively seeks out and recommends process, automation and system opportunities to reduce manual effort/time and decrease implementation time.
Applies a high level of detail to work and consistently looks for ways to improve the quality of a product.

What you will bring:

Background in insurance industry and payment processes (collections & disbursements).
Excellent understanding of the endtoend SAP FS-CD process, experience in FS-CD Master Data and payment plan items configuration.
Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience as Sr. BSA / Functional IT Consultant within Finance.
Functional Background with crossmodule experience including understanding of integration points across SAP onpremise modules (FS-CD, FI/CO, BW/BI)
Experience providing design and develop matrix, process flow diagrams and functional specification documents for configuring the SAP system.
Demonstrated ability to walkthrough existing business process and identify process gaps, provide detailed design document.
Ability to analyze business requirements, identify areas of improvement and suggest alternative solutions
You have experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Agile SCRUM methodologies and can review and execute test functional scripts.
Minimum of 3 years providing consulting on large scale ERP technical/ SaaS implementations
Minimum 2 years experience analyzing, configuring, testing, and deploying SAP FS-CD on premise functionality.
Demonstrated functional understanding of SAP FS-CD, SAP FI-CO, and S4/HANA.
Experience working with demanding business areas, managing relationships, and setting expectations.
Demonstrated ability to multitask, juggling multiple priorities in a professional manner.
Ability to lead and collaborate remotely.