Senior SAP Business Systems Analyst

Senior SAP Business Systems Analyst:

On behalf of our oil & gas client, Vaquarii is seeking a Senior SAP Business Systems Analyst for a 12-Month Contract.

The perfect candidate will translate business needs into clear, testable requirements and solution designs for SAP S/4HANA and integrated solutions within the SAP Program.

Services would be carried out though a Hybrid Work Schedule from their downtown Calgary headquarters.

Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze, and document business and technical requirements, including integrations, data, reporting, and security/control needs.
• Facilitate workshops; capture decisions, assumptions, and dependencies; maintain traceability from requirement to solution and test evidence.
• Define user stories and acceptance criteria (or detailed requirements where applicable) and support backlog refinement and scope/change control.
• Support test planning by translating requirements into scenarios and expected results; support defect triage by clarifying intent and reproducing issues with evidence.
• Produce governance-ready reporting on requirement status, open decisions, risks/issues, and readiness impacts across workstreams.

Requirements, Process & Solution Definition:

• Elicit and document business and technical requirements for SAP S/4HANA capabilities, integrations, reporting, data, security roles, and control objectives.
• Facilitate workshops to define current/future processes, pain points, and desired outcomes; capture decisions, assumptions, and open questions.
• Maintain traceability from requirements to design, build, test scenarios, and evidence in the controlled repository.

Backlog, Scope & Change Control:

• Support backlog refinement by decomposing requirements into user stories (or detailed requirements), acceptance criteria, and dependencies.
• Perform impact assessments for change requests (process, data, integrations, security, testing, cutover) and support prioritization and decisioning.

Design Validation & Build Support:

• Review solution designs with functional and technical teams for alignment to requirements, controls, and non-functional needs.
• Support developers/configurators by clarifying intent, edge cases, and expected outcomes; ensure handoffs are complete and unambiguous.

Must Have Skills:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst / Technical Business Analyst on large, integrated enterprise programs (ERP transformation preferred).
• Strong capability in requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and stakeholder facilitation; able to translate business outcome requirements and criteria.
• Experience working across functional and technical teams to define integrations, data, reporting, and non-functional needs (performance, security, auditability).

SAP S/4HANA & Process/Controls Awareness:

• Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA capabilities and standard process concepts, with the ability to engage in solution discussions and assess impacts to upstream/downstream processes.
• Awareness of controls and governance considerations (e.g., segregation of duties, approval design, audit evidence) and how they influence requirements and design.

Analysis, Documentation & Governance Skills:

• Skilled in producing high-quality artifacts: process maps, requirements specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, decision logs, and RAID/dependency tracking.
• Able to operate within stage-gate and delivery governance frameworks, supporting formal sign-offs and maintaining audit-ready documentation in controlled repositories.
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills to resolve ambiguities, drive decisions, and balance scope, risk, and delivery constraints.

SAP S/4HANA & Clean Core Awareness:

• Working awareness of SAP S/4HANA solution components and common integration patterns (interfaces, middleware, data replication), sufficient to drive effective SIT/UAT coverage.
• Familiarity with SAP delivery artifacts (process design, configuration rationale, transport strategy) and how they translate into test design and evidence.

Test Governance & Delivery Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to establish test governance (cadence, RAID management, decisioning, quality metrics) and operate within stage‑gate frameworks.
• Experience delivering to entrance/exit criteria, quality gates, and evidence requirements aligned to program readiness and cutover milestones.
• Skilled in supporting risk‑based test coverage and ensuring traceability from requirements/processes to scenarios and outcomes.
• Comfort working with and holding accountable project team, system integrators and vendors for test deliverables, execution discipline, and timely defect resolution.

Tools, Reporting & Integration Awareness:

• Experience with enterprise test/defect tools (e.g., SAP Cloud ALM, Azure DevOps, or equivalent) and producing audit‑ready evidence packages.
• Ability to design and communicate quality dashboards (coverage, pass rates, defect aging/burn‑down, severity mix, readiness risks) for governance forums.
• Understanding of how integrations, data migration/mock cutovers, and environment readiness impact SIT/UAT planning and execution.

Education & Experience:

• University degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years experience in enterprise testing / quality leadership, including participation in at least one major ERP implementation or transformation.
• Testing or delivery certifications (e.g., ISTQB, PMP, Agile/Scrum) are considered an asset.

Job Location:

• Downtown Calgary, Alberta
• Hybrid Work Schedule (Mon/Tue/Thu in office)

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Clear, prioritized, and traceable requirements and solution designs for SAP S/4HANA and in-scope integrations.
• Aligned stakeholders and delivery teams through effective workshops, decisions, and governance-ready documentation.
• Improved business adoption and operational readiness via validated processes, roles/controls alignment, and testable acceptance criteria.