Job ID: NY-BA (90090204)
SAP BA/PM with lean documentation, MS Project, SharePoint O365, public finance/housing finance and government experience
Location: 641 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY (NY HCR – New York State Homes and Community Renewal)
Duration: 6+ months
Visa: GC/USC (C2H)
Interview: In-person
Qualifications
•5 years of experience as a Project Manager leading transformative, impactful initiatives with large IT development components; ERP experience desired.
•4+ years of experience as a business analyst and lean documentation standards
•Some experience as a developer, a plus
•SAP certifications, a plus
•Microsoft Project and SharePoint O365 proficiency required
•Interest and experience in public finance, particularly affordable housing finance
•Prior experience in government is beneficial, but not required
HCR, the consortium of New York State housing agencies, is seeking a highly qualified and experienced Business Analyst/Project Manager to join our team to help implement an integrated solution composed of a COTS front-office system for its (1) grant making for single-family housing; (2) multifamily housing finance and (3) multifamily asset management/compliance business lines and an ERP for back-office functionality (SAP S/4 HANA 1610). The back-office functionality uses SAP’s Consumer Mortgage Loans, Treasury, Financial Controlling and Accounting, Supplier Relationship Management and Human Capital Management modules.
The job will entail developing (beautiful!) robust and engaging business process documentation to ensure that the many business units that participate in executing end-to-end value streams understand their own and one another’s business processes and to ensure these are the basis for ongoing product enhancements.
The Business Analyst will help meet additional business objectives, including continual improvement of business processes (in conjunction with a team of business analysts using lean methods) and further developing business solutions using modular / reusable functionality to support common needs across the enterprise, such as application intake, program management, invoicing and reporting, and system integration with multiple actors outside the organization. The Project Manager will be responsible for managing the lifecycle of the remaining phases of the project, currently in its final round of integration testing and preparation for cutover and go-live.
The Project Manager will lead the team and help them both understand and abide by project management best practices: proactive risk and issue identification and management as well as a keen eye for identifying and documenting the critical path to ensure successful execution. The Project Manager will diagnose problems quickly and devise viable solutions, seeing trends or gaps in development that lie beyond the by-the-book approaches and will propose and implement solutions to address root causes. On a day-to-day basis, the team will use SharePoint in Office 365 as a repository for documentation. The Project Manager should also help execute the shift from old ways of working to collaboration tools like Slack in addition to others.
Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills and Ability:
•A minimum of 5 years’ experience implementing SAP or other ERP or other enterprise systems
•Excellent communication and analytical skills
•Ability to manage a budget effectively, across multiple concurrent builds
•Ability to quickly learn organizational structure, business strategies and processes
•Ability to impart structure to ambiguity, to create use cases out of homogenous or flat information, to devise appropriate solutions, responses, and approaches
•Proven ability to lead multiple complex workstreams in a fast-paced environment
•Self-motivated and comfortable with initial ambiguity; resourceful enough to drive towards clarity by evaluating the solutions landscape
•Ability to problem solve independently by diagnosing problems, gathering requirements for resolution and engaging the right stakeholders to determine solutions
•Comfortable with extending into activity areas adjacent to project management (writ narrow), including business analysis, working towards progress and objectives and timeframes to be met
•Knowledge of change management best practices
•Financial acumen and ability to manage a budget
•Ability to collaborate cross functionally with various employees
•Strong training and presentation skills
•Empathy, patience and ability to serve internal customers
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•Attention to detail
•Experience managing enterprise-wide projects with a geographically diverse implementation team
As the Project Manager, the candidate must be able to communicate effectively and:
•Identify the critical path to completion and identify tasks or deliverables with false dependencies to help expedite and sequence work appropriately.
•Hold regular status meetings with the project team.
•Identify, track, evaluate and propose solutions for risks and issues.
•Appropriately plan and facilitate meetings leveraging video conferencing, WebEx, and / or conference call lines.
•Schedule meetings with multiple stakeholders.
•Present relevant project information to project sponsors and executive staff.
•Deliver engaging, informative, and well-organized presentations.
•Spot, resolve and / or escalate issues in a timely way.