IT Business Analyst (SAP) Job at PZ Cussons

PZ Cussons is a dynamic consumer products group and innovator of some of the world's best known and loved brands. Calling on over 130 years of expertise, we operate internationally in carefully selected developed and emerging markets that present the greatest strategic potential for future growth. Our world-class supply chain and distribution networks enable us to meet our global consumer needs and deliver quality brands that add value and enhance everyday lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: IT Business Analyst - SAP

Job Requisition ID: JR001474
Job Location: Ilupeju, Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Department: Regional IT Africa - Supply
Responsible to: Head of Digital & IT, Africa
Responsible for: No direct reports

Job Purpose

• Bridges the gap between business needs and technology solutions.
• Communicate with the top stakeholders in the organization to analyse business requirements, processes, and information systems, and will also help drive the business in the right direction by improving the products, services, and software with the help of data analytics.
• Would have key Internal Relationship with functional business leaders, commercial heads, Super Users and Regional Process Leads, other members of the global and regional IT teams, IT applications project team members.

Key Accountabilities

• Identifying the PZ SBU business needs and translating them into technical requirements
• Attending relevant business planning/production meetings to support to align needs of business with technical requirement
• Solution evaluation: Assessing potential technology solutions to meet business needs as aligned with Business Leaders and other stakeholders.
• Testing and quality assurance: Ensuring solutions meet business requirements and quality standards.
• Training and support: Providing training and support to end-users.
• ROI analysis: Evaluating the return on investment (ROI) of IT projects.
• Driving digital transformation and process improvement.
• Project management: Overseeing IT projects from conception to implementation.
• Stakeholder communication: Liaising between business stakeholders, IT teams, and vendors.
• Process improvement: Analyzing and optimizing business processes through technology.
• Provide deep SAP application knowledge in relevant areas on best practices and troubleshooting techniques to help drive improvements in the solution.
• Support the development and governance of the change/release plan to ensure changes are timely and well-managed.
• Provide structured input and advice to the Design Authority governance body so ensuring correct decisions are made.
• Provide first-line support to Regional Super Users and facilitate the Super User network.

Specifics and Key for F2S and P2P:

• P2P within SAP ECC:
• Materials Management (MM)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Logistics Execution (LE)
• Warehouse management (WM)
• Quality Management (QM)
• F2S within SAP SCM (APO)
• Supply Network Planning (SNP)
• Demand Planning (DP)
• Production Planning / Detailed Scheduling (PPDS)
• Integration between ECC & APO.