SAP Functional Analyst: Costing & Manufacturing Solutions

Performance Food Group (New); Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheney Brothers is seeking an SAP Functional Analyst to bridge business needs and IT delivery. You will analyze processes, gather requirements, configure SAP applications, and support testing and production activities to drive efficiency and better business performance.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, document functional specifications, and assist with interfaces, reports, and enhancements. Prior manufacturing experience, especially in food manufacturing, is preferred.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building, implementing, and maintaining cost accounting structures within ERP systems.
• Experience leading ERP cost calculation setup, configuration, and cost accounting processes.
• Strong knowledge of cost accounting principles, standard costing methodologies, and variance analysis.
• Proven ability to prepare monthly profit and loss statements and analyze financial performance against budget, forecast, and standard costs.
• Experience developing and maintaining cost tracking metrics, KPI reporting, and operational dashboards.
• Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and capital expenditure (CapEx) evaluation processes.
• Ability to perform financial modeling and support operational decision-making in partnership with plant management and production teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial reporting skills.
• Advanced proficiency with ERP systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including operations, supply chain, production, and finance stakeholders.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment required; experience in food manufacturing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand business processes, operational challenges, and system requirements; document and analyze business requirements and translate them into functional SAP specifications.
• Evaluate existing business processes, identify opportunities for process improvement and automation, analyze functional requirements, and determine appropriate SAP solutions within assigned modules.
• Identify gaps between business needs and standard SAP functionality, recommend solutions, and configure SAP modules to support business requirements and operational processes.
• Develop and maintain functional specifications, configuration documentation, process flows, system procedures, user training materials, process documentation, and functional guides.
• Collaborate with technical teams regarding custom development, interfaces, reports, integrations, enhancements, and system modifications.
• Design, develop, and execute unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing activities; investigate, document, and coordinate resolution of system defects and enhancement requests.
• Troubleshoot SAP production issues and provide timely incident resolution and root cause analysis; support end users by providing guidance, issue resolution, and system expertise.
• Analyze interfaces between SAP and external applications to ensure data integrity and process effectiveness; monitor system performance and recommend continuous improvements to business processes and application functionality.
• Coordinate activities with SAP functional teams, developers, infrastructure teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Participate in SAP implementations, upgrades, migrations, rollouts, and system enhancement initiatives.
• Support project lifecycle activities, including requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, cutover, and post-production stabilization; conduct end-user training sessions, demonstrations, and knowledge transfer activities.

Skills

Cost accounting

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Cheney Brothers is seeking an SAP Functional Analyst to bridge business needs and IT delivery. You will analyze processes, gather requirements, configure SAP applications, and support testing and production activities to drive efficiency and better business performance.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, document functional specifications, and assist with interfaces, reports, and enhancements. Prior manufacturing experience, especially in food manufacturing, is preferred.