Business Analyst - SAP S/4HANA

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients.  We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications.  We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

We’re looking for a Business Analyst with SAP S/4HANA experience to support a major upgrade programme from version 2021 to 2025. This role plays a key part in preparing the organisation for the transition, with a strong focus on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) readiness.

You’ll assess current business processes to understand the impact of the upgrade, review and validate existing UAT scripts, identify any gaps, and migrate these scripts into SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Manager (CALM). You’ll also coordinate and support UAT activities, ensure issues are documented and resolved, and update the final scripts based on lessons learned throughout the programme.

• Business Process Review: Conduct detailed reviews to assess how the SAP S/4HANA upgrade will impact existing business processes, with a particular focus on finance processes and Joint Venture Accounting.
• UAT Planning & Scripting: Work closely with business users to define repeatable UAT test cases and scripts, ensuring full coverage of critical business processes, integrations, and dependencies.
• Stakeholder Communication: Maintain clear, consistent communication with project stakeholders, providing updates on progress, risks, and key issues throughout the upgrade lifecycle.
• Documentation: Produce and maintain high‑quality documentation covering business processes, UAT scripts, test results, and migration activities.
• Clean Core Discovery: Identify opportunities for clean core transformation during the upgrade preparation, capturing areas for optimisation that can be explored post‑upgrade.

Requirements:
• Demonstrable experience with SAP S/4HANA upgrade projects, particularly around business process impact analysis.
• Finance process background preferred, with Joint Venture Accounting experience highly beneficial.
• Hands-on experience using SAP Cloud ALM to support and manage UAT activities.
• Proven ability to design, execute, and coordinate UAT scripts in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational, documentation, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities, with a collaborative, solution‑focused approach.
• A proactive self‑starter, capable of working independently and managing multiple priorities within tight deadlines.
• Desirable: Experience within Upstream Oil & Gas or a similar complex, process‑driven industry.

Benefits:
At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.
• Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.
• A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more….
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At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.