Functional Analyst (JD Edwards)
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- Dec 13, 2022 Post Date
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The Functional Analyst (JD Edwards) works closely with business teams to understand and analyze how core business processes leverage and interact with the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and identifies key opportunities for improvement. This role will act as a liaison between business units and technical teams by capturing written business requirements, functional requirements and ROIs related to ERP development and/or ERP integration projects. The Functional Analyst will work end-to-end with users, developers and stakeholders to ensure quality assurance (QA) and timely delivery of ERP-related IT projects. This role will coordinate and manage regular upgrades, enhancements, project deployments and maintenance of the ERP system to ensure stability, business continuity and compliance with IT controls.
Who we are:
Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems.
Milacron is an operating company of Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand (www.Hillenbrand.com) is a global diversified industrial company with businesses that serve a wide variety of industries around the world. We pursue profitable growth and robust cash generation to drive increased value for our shareholders. Hillenbrand's portfolio includes industrial businesses such as Coperion, Milacron Injection Molding & Extrusion, and Mold-Masters, in addition to Batesville, a recognized leader in the death care industry in North America. Hillenbrand is publicly traded on the NYSE under "HI."
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Supports and aligns efforts to meet customer and business needs
- Manages relationships and expectations by communicating regularly with stakeholders on project status and results
- Stays current with business needs and strategies; utilizes formal and informal written communication methods (i.e. emails, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists) to communicate updates and findings related to business processes and/or systems; facilitates project meetings and presentations to diverse audiences (i.e. senior management, end-users, technical staff)
- Completes and regularly updates project documentation; manages project scope; adjusts project schedules when necessary; determines daily priorities; ensures efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; follows proper escalation paths; and manages relationships with stakeholders
- Identifies, creates and facilitates process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level; focuses on quality improvement and data management; ensures data is reliable, valid and secure; develops process improvement plans; integrates new systems/processes with legacy systems/processes; and partners with business stakeholders and end-users to ensure solutions provided by IT align with long-term business strategies
- Provides and supports the implementation of technology-driven business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifies business needs; determines and carries out necessary processes and practices; monitors progress and results; recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; and adapts to competing demands, organizational changes and new responsibilities
- Provides project level analysis and develop related diagrams, flows, tables and/or graphs
- Collaborates closely with ERP development team to implement solutions that align with business needs/requirements and supports end-users and/or testers during QA process
- Identifies business process improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive)
- Elicits and clearly documents business and systems requirements (i.e. business requirements/stories, scope, use cases, diagrams)
- Assesses ERP usage by various functional areas and identifies inefficiencies in configuration
- Demonstrates fluency in business processes and process differentiation
- Understands and negotiates needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
- Creates and maintains issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates
- Creates and maintains project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time and resources, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions and resolving conflicts
- Develops and executes test plans
- Supports system conversions, upgrades and enhancements
Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages through influence.
Education/Skills/Experience:
- Must have experience working on multiple projects simultaneously while handling day-to-day intake of requests/issues/defects from the business
- Strong project management skills; ability to successfully manage multiple tasks or competing priorities; strong relationship building skills & ability to negotiate
- Bachelor’s degree (IT or Computer Science focus preferred)
- 5+ years of proven experience as a business/systems analyst and/or systems development capacity
- 5+ years of proven experience working with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and/or OneWorld ERP system as a developer, analyst or system administrator
- 10+ years in a technology focused or process-improvement role
- Basic understanding of Relational Database Principles and APIs
- Proven analytical abilities
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail
Travel: N/A
Physical Demands:
To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to crouch. The employee may occasionally lift items as heavy as 10lbs. Specific vision abilities may include the employee’s ability to see near and far distances.
DISCLAIMER: The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of any employee assigned to this job. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
At Hillenbrand we strive to build a diverse workforce through equal opportunity employment that embraces and leverages the differences each individual has to offer. Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer of minorities/females/disabled/veterans.
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