Catalyst - Sr Business Analyst - Product Costing

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is seeking an IT Business Systems Analyst to join our team that will implement the next generation of knowledge systems for our Building Products businesses.

As an IT Business System Analyst focusing on product costing and cost accounting system processes, you will partner with the order management, sales, manufacturing, and accounting teams to design processes, capture requirements, coordinate application development, and support system adoption.

The ideal candidate will have advanced business systems analysts' skills enabling you to work effectively with business and technical leaders in an agile environment to integrate a product costing solution within the application landscape as part of a multi-year business transformation effort.

The ideal candidate will be proficient in application/product ownership, vendor management, requirements definition, agile software delivery methodologies, and accounting (costing) business processes.

Our Team

To achieve our vision of becoming a supplier of choice, we must differentiate ourselves from our competition and provide value for our customers and society.

Building Products will implement digital capabilities to standardize and transform our foundational processes and systems.

The program has already begun activities to best equip us for this multi-year transformation journey.

We will employ a process-based, phased approach to address data visibility and quality, inconsistent and manual processes, and limited technology capabilities.

This approach will apply learnings from similar programs and leverage talent across Building Products.

What You Will Do



* Provide technology leadership, ownership for a product costing application and related ERP processes supporting product cost and general cost accounting processes.


* Apply business analysis principles and techniques to elicit, understand, and document requirements.


* Work closely with stakeholders, developers, and software quality assurance teams to ensure that proposed requirements, designs, and solutions are aligned with product and technical strategy.


* Assist with backlog prioritization, estimation efforts, product related artifacts, coordinating tasks/projects and communication to stakeholders.


* Draft functional/technical design specifications including process flow, workflow, integration points, validation, data, and logic requirements.

Ensure designs can be traced back to requirements.


* Perform ERP and costing system configurations to enable requirements and undertake deployment to business areas of GP.


* Develop test cases, execute test plans, triage test results, and log/track defects.


* Collaborate with team (process leads, vendors, solution integrators etc.) to clarify vision, scope, and capabilities and determine fit/gap analysis.


* Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements.


* Assist in conducting research of alternati...