An employer is looking for a Senior SAP Release Analyst to work in Fort Mill, SC. This person must be local and able to form onsite partnerships with internal teams. This role will primarily consist in working in conjunctions with application managers, operation teams and project teams and taking responsibility to coordinate releases, refreshes, archiving and documentation. This person should be able to act as a subject master expert for testing applications in working with the project managers, managing Project Requests and Documentation, performing Project configuration/maintenance, and participating in tool upgrade/patching (tests). This role will also play an active part in ensuring Audit controls are complying. Overall, daily responsibilities will include: Prepare/support releases - Release preparation and verification, Schedule and host release meetings, Control Release quality (Review release transports, documentation, impacts, controls, cutover), Coordinate release dates with different stakeholders and identify conflicts among various releases (Operational and Projects), Review project release strategy, Approve changes as member of the CCC (Change Control Committee), Review security changes - documentation - on demand, Validate governance is applied, and more.

Additional day to day job responsibilities included below:

ERP and associated Environment Refreshes

Prepare, maintain, communicate and post release and refresh calendar

Coordinate refresh dates with different stakeholders to meet demand from various releases / projects

Refresh Coordinator Role with Basis/ Functional Analyst / Verification (for refreshes and refresh issues)

ITGC Ownership and record keeping

Maintenance Security/Business/ IT Approvers

Maintenance R14 Governance Document

In Microfocus QC / HP ALM (HPQC)

Owner of HPQC

Coordinate and initiate HPQC upgrade to latest version

Manage Project Request and Documentation for various projects

Project configuration/maintenance

SME tester for upgrade-patching

HP ALM Approver for patching / server changes

HP ALM Admin

Archiving coordination, reports review and contact for the supplier

Coordinator for some Application/ Basis projects

Reporting

Tableau SME for all IT reports/view; testers for changes/manage change request from other COE IT teams

10 years of SAP ECC experience

SharePoint Administration

Microsoft Office Suites

Able to speak French

Willing to perform the extra effort that makes the difference by performing follow up, taking ownership and helping others

HP ALM knowledge
A strong IT background required, with Subject Matter Expertise in SAP ECC specifically

General Functional knowledge of SAP Master Data, SD, PM-MM, FICO, SCM, BW modules

Technical SAP Knowledge ABAP, SAP Clients, dictionary, tables, SPRO

Knowledge of the software development lifecycle experience

3-4 years in Release Coordination position or Project Lead

Maintains SAP governance and evidence for SOX compliance

Ability to coordinate amongst various global teams (Technical, Functional, Business)

Strong organizational skills and excellent communication skills, both verbal and written (English/French)

Strong documentation skills and extremely detail oriented

Good analytical and problem solving skills

Excellent time management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously