Job Details

Principal SAP WFM Analyst
Location: Oakland, CA
Schedule: Hybrid onsite 3 days per week

Position Summary:
The role of the Principal SAP WFM Analyst is to configure, implement, maintain, and upgrade SAP ERP applications and modules. The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents and performs ERP system configuration and customization to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations. The Principal is viewed as an integral strategic partner and business liaison in technology decisions and provides ongoing ERP system support. This includes analyzing business requirements and developing integrated IT and complex business solutions.

Department Overview:
Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments which collaborate effectively to deliver high quality technology solutions. The SAP Electric Ops Work Management Delivery organization provides SAP IT services to Electric line of business. The organization is responsible for strategic technology planning, roadmap development, solution design, solution delivery and solution support.

Business Support and Consulting:

• Define standards and drive adoption in enterprise work management area and document and maintain standard for all use cases.
• Analyze end-to-end complex business processes and information needs of the across business functional areas and potentially external entities.
• Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new ERP capabilities.
• Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross- organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.
• Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

• Automate/optimize work management processes through a third-party enterprise resource planning system (e.g., SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle).
• Map business requirements to ERP system capabilities and configure ERP to meet requirements.
• Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution.
• Perform complex configuration of ERP system and do quality review and testing activities.
• Responsible for application architecture design for large project or multi module and applications.

• Able to analyze and design solutions independently even on the most complex projects in SAP work management and plant maintenance module.
• Develop a community that drives standard business process in Enterprise work management.
• Demonstrates the highest level of expertise and is recognized as the most senior expert on business analysis methods and processes.
• Demonstrates mastery of ERP concepts, principles or practices in a multiple business areas and multiple ERP modules
• Demonstrates broad knowledge of industry best practices for ERP projects. This position also requires knowledge of business processes for all corresponding business functional areas and ERP modules.
• Coordinates business analysis efforts for multiple projects across different organizations.
• Directs and coaches other team members, guide Experts/Seniors to follow standard business processes and configuration.
• Maintains industry knowledge of ERP systems and understand future capabilities/roadmap of ERP system in work management and project system area.
• Demonstrates a high level of expertise in a few the following areas: testing, project management, related Lines of Business, development, SOX compliance, regulatory compliance, operational/disaster recovery, operations, maintenance, etc.

• 10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology
• 8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in Enterprise SAP Applications
• 4 years of experience working on S/4 HANA
• Extensive participation in projects of high complexity or simultaneous participation in multiple projects of medium to high complexity in a leading role

• Proficiency and hands-on experience with the following modules: EAM, or Intelligent Asset Manager
• Gas and / or Electric utility industry experience
• Exposure to ERP design and development, especially in SAP either in college or in previous jobs