Systems Analyst - Financial Applications

Systems Analyst - Financial Applications

As one of the world´s leading manufacturers of cardio- and endovascular medical devices, BIOTRONIK is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and represented in over 100 countries by its global workforce. The work of our committed, highly specialized, exceptionally skilled employees results in crucial advancements in the world of cardiology and changes the lives of patients every day.

The Corporate Information Systems (CIS) Group is an internal provider delivering end to end IT services to Biotronik affiliates worldwide. Our mission as a Shared Services Center (SSC) North America is to support multiple regional business units with ca. 1,500 users. Our services include Client Support/Helpdesk, Enterprise Application Management, IT Project Management Office and Class A Data Center Operations. We are currently evaluating our path to implement S4/HANA globally.

The primary function of the “Systems Analyst – Financial Applications” is the service delivery and support for our business users within the framework of our SAP ERP eco system, with the main focus on SAP FI/CO, including Vistex, Concur, Paymetric, Salesforce as well as custom/mobile apps.

The ideal candidate has a business software development background and worked on implementation and support projects for global organizations. He/she has a solid foundational understanding of SAP FI/CO/MM/SD and has successfully executed projects, leading their business counter parts.

Your Responsibilities

• Business partner for financial applications to our business stakeholders in the US
  • Hold regular meetings with key business stakeholders to review current activities
• Design, develop and deploy new processes and systems – as well as process and system changes within our application eco-system in collaboration with the business
  • Biotronik is currently using SAP ECC 6.0 to run its business and there are ongoing initiatives to improve processes and add new business models
  • Biotronik is planning to migrate from SAP ECC to SAP S/4 HANA in the near future. This is a large, global and multi-year program that will require a review and mapping of our current processes and a mapping to the new systems capabilities of S/4HANA.
• Analyze ongoing process and system problems and identify or develop appropriate solutions or workarounds in collaboration with the business
  • Review problems and try to map the process to a standard process and assist the business to implement it
  • Design and implement system enhancements, change requests and provide bug fixes
• Technical vendor management of our service partners and cloud providers (triaging, ticketing, licensing, troubleshooting, maintenance, escalations)
• Coordinate and manage system changes and go-lives with our business users as well as with our IT CoE partners in Berlin, Germany

Your Profile

• BA or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience with SAP FI/CO/MM/SD and integration scenarios with other applications. Vistex experience is a plus
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with financial applications systems (must be able to thoroughly understand business use cases for financial systems).
• Minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience with the implementation and support of cloud applications – interfaced with SAP
• Experience in leading integration projects end-to-end (at least one) and working with external vendors
• Software development experience, ideally with ABAP
• The current responsibilities and especially the planned S/4 HANA project require a deep understanding of accounting principles and business processes in accounting and finance – as well as a strong understanding and experience with SAP software concepts and systems capabilities.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Project leadership skills
• Good communication skills, experience with direct customer interaction
• Ability to handle business and customer escalations and urgent production issues
• Ability to analyze support requests, business processes and data flows across a complex systems landscape
• Ability to understand business problems and articulate systems changes and root cause analysis’ to technical and non-technical audience such as senior management and relate to a business problem
• Understanding of Medical Device industry is desired (HIPAA and FDA regulations)
• Agile mindset, Agile or SCRUM certification or experience is a big plus

Soft Skills

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Sense of urgency and ability to drive clear actions in critical situations
• Ability to work both, independently and as a team player
• Excellent analytical- and troubleshooting skills
• Follow through
• Quick learner
• Self-starter
• Commitment
• Results-oriented
• Technical project management experience

Physical Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 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 be independently mobile.
• The employee is also required to interact with a computer for extended periods of time, and communicate with co-workers.
• Must be able to travel to other office locations.

Travel Requirements
Must be able to travel internationally and domestically, less than 10% of the time.

Are you interested? Please apply online through our application management system! We are looking forward to welcoming you.

Location: Lake Oswego, OR | Working hours: Full-time | Type of contract: Undefined

Apply now under: www.biotronik.com/careers

Job ID: 32424 | Contact: Bonnie Melius

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.