ERP Business Process Analyst
About The Position
Barry-Wehmiller is seeking a highly analytical, process-oriented ERP Business Process Analyst to lead implementation and optimization of enterprise systems. The role serves as a link between business units and IT teams, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions that align with equipment-industry best practices and improve operational efficiency. The position focuses on project and product cost management in a complex capital equipment environment spanning engineer-to-order machine solutions and configure-to-order machine products. The analyst will understand ERP technical constraints and work with business teams to improve processes using ERP standard functionality. Broader knowledge of finance-related functions is desired. This is an individual-contributor role and a remote, regular full-time position. Occasional domestic or global travel may be required, averaging no more than 25%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or another technical field.
- At least 10 years of combined experience in the relevant functional areas in business and/or IT roles, including business analysis, requirements management, and ERP solution design.
- Deep understanding of project-management best practices in engineer-to-order and configure-to-order environments.
- Strong knowledge of product-costing methods, including actual costing, with complementary expertise in upstream production execution and broad finance functions.
- Solid understanding of key master data elements and their relationships to relevant processes.
- Full understanding of functional-area system setup or configuration and its effects on module data and behavior.
- Proficiency in ERP systems, data-mapping concepts and techniques, and MS Office tools.
- Ability to understand cross-module impacts of system changes.
- Clear communication skills for explaining technical concepts to stakeholders and conveying business needs to technical teams.
- Proactive problem-solving skills for system, business-process, and data-integrity issues.
- Ability and willingness to work more than 40 hours per week, including scheduled and unscheduled overtime.
- Ability to sit at a desk and use a computer for prolonged periods, and occasionally lift or move up to 15 pounds.
Nice To Haves
- Microsoft Dynamics ERP experience; SAP or another ERP system is acceptable.
- Previous experience implementing ERP systems in a capital equipment manufacturing environment.
- Direct experience with Microsoft Dynamics ERP implementations.
- Deep understanding of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Lean methodologies.
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
- Broader knowledge of additional finance-related functions.
Responsibilities
- Understand current workflows and design future-state processes that use standard ERP functionality, reduce manual work, and promote business best practices.
- Lead sessions to define business functional requirements and scope.
- Support the ERP lifecycle in partnership with IT, including functional configuration, data migration, and system integration.
- Identify gaps between business needs and system capabilities and recommend standard, out-of-the-box solutions over custom enhancements where possible.
- Develop ERP business process flows and test scripts to verify that the system meets business criteria.
- Support development of training materials for ERP deployments.
- Train end users as a subject matter expert and create documentation to support adoption.
- Translate complex technical concepts into plain language for stakeholders and communicate business needs to technical teams.
- Address system, business-process, and data-integrity issues.
- Travel occasionally domestically and/or globally as project timelines require, averaging no more than 25%.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
