ERP System Analyst Job Opportunity in Winnipeg

Job Title:    ERP System Analyst
Job Location:    Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Employer:    Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company
About Us:
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company was established in 1896, in the small village of Wawanesa Manitoba. The venture began small, but quickly picked up speed as more policies were written. By 1960, The Wawanesa Life Insurance Company was established, and operations expanded to various provinces across Canada. Today, we conduct business all across Canada, California, and Oregon, and offer an assortment of property, auto, commercial, and life products. Our combined assets total more than 7 billion, and our annual premiums exceed 2 billion.
As a policyholder owned company we offer great stability, lots of opportunity for growth, and most importantly a work environment that is respectful, challenging and rewarding. We provide our employees with fully competitive compensation packages that include competitive salaries, profit sharing plan, education assistance, and extended health benefits. We are always looking for new talent, and are looking forward to hearing from you!

Job Description:
The Information Services organization at Wawanesa Insurance provides value to our customers by contributing to the goals of the business through leadership in the development and effective delivery of information technology services.
We continue to initiate strategic projects that will enable our business community to achieve their goals. As a result of these initiatives, we are growing our team! Consider this exciting, challenging Winnipeg based opportunity:
Reporting to the Supervisor, Application Services, the ERP System Analyst is responsible for ensuring all business requirements are gathered, documented and translated into functional specifications in anticipation of implementing them within the systems development

Job Requirements:

•     Post-secondary degree/certificate in Management, or Business Analysis program of a recognized university or college or the equivalent in experience and education.
•     Demonstrated 5 years plus PeopleSoft or other ERP system experience.
•     Demonstrated production experience, troubleshooting production issues in General Ledger and Accounts Payable.
•     Strong business process analysis, design, and development tools and techniques.
•     Understanding of key workflow objectives and how performance can be improved through the use of technology and process redesign.
•     Excellent oral and written communication skills, including strong presentation skills.
•     Excellent problem solving and analysis skills.
•     Demonstrated experience as liaison between business community and demonstrated ability to conduct change management and knowledge transfer to business community in tree development, report development, work flow development.
•     Understanding of the System Development Life Cycle is considered an asset.
•     Awareness of the sizing/estimating process, information systems development and support, and the preparation of detailed work plans/schedules.

Job Duties:

• Work collaboratively with functional areas to identify and document business requirements for PeopleSoft GL; Accounts Payable; Asset Management and Project Costing.
• Conduct business requirement review sessions with business and technical functional areas to communicate business changes.
• Resolve business requirement issues that emerge through design, development and testing.
• Communicate and train end-users to ensure successful integration of system changes and business processes.
• Provide functional support to the PS Financials General Ledger and Accounts Payable; Asset Management and Project Costing departments.
• Define requirements for AP & GL production reports or functional report specifications.
• Develop AP & GL workflows as required, and perform post Go Live system trouble shooting.
• Utilize the departments established processes and methodology.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Wawanesa provides its employees with respectful, challenging and rewarding environment where they can maximize their potential while contributing to the company’s goals. Our employees are provided with highly competitive compensation packages (salaries, profit sharing, benefits and a defined benefit pension plan). The benefit package is comprehensive and far ranging. Wawanesa provides a stable and rewarding environment for its employees in today’s challenging markets.

Deadline Date: 18/02/2014

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