SAP BI/BW Functional Transformation SME – GFEBS Modernization Position Overview CODEplus is seeking an experienced SAP BI/BW Functional Transformation SME to support the analysis, reverse engineering, documentation, and modernization of the U.S. Army's General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) reporting, analytics, financial processes, and business intelligence capabilities. This role serves as the bridge between SAP BI/BW technical architecture, GFEBS functional business processes, Army financial management stakeholders, data teams, architects, and future target-system implementation teams. The selected candidate will be responsible for extracting legacy business logic, reporting requirements, data dependencies, and financial processes from existing GFEBS and SAP BW environments and translating them into platform-independent requirements, configurable workflows, and future-state solutions. The position plays a critical role in ensuring that existing capabilities supporting Statement of Transactions, FB50 Reclassification, Electronic Funds Distribution (EFD), MILPERS, Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS), and Spend Plans are accurately understood, documented, validated, and successfully transitioned to future systems while maintaining auditability, compliance, and operational continuity.
Key Responsibilities
GFEBS Functional Analysis & Business Process Transformation
- Serve as the functional authority for Army financial management business processes within GFEBS.
- Analyze existing SAP ECC and GFEBS business processes and custom applications.
- Extract and document transactional business logic, validations, posting rules, workflow requirements, and decision points.
- Translate legacy SAP functionality into platform-independent functional and technical requirements.
- Define configuration and validation requirements for:
- Statement of Transactions
- FB50 Reclassification Tool
- Electronic Funds Distribution (EFD)
- Spend Plans
- MILPERS
- Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS)
- Map legacy Lines of Accounting (LOA), financial structures, master data derivations, and business rules.
- Ensure full auditability and traceability of financial processing and workflow execution.
SAP BI/BW Analysis & Reverse Engineering
- Analyze existing SAP BW solutions, reports, dashboards, and analytical products supporting Army financial operations.
- Reverse engineer current-state SAP BI/BW functionality, including:
- BW Queries
- InfoProviders
- InfoCubes
- DSOs and ADSOs
- Extractors
- Data Flows
- Transformations
- Variables
- Characteristics
- Key Figures
- Calculated and Restricted Key Figures
- Custom Objects and Enhancements
- Trace report outputs from user-facing reports and dashboards back to originating SAP transactional data.
- Identify custom reporting logic, interfaces, enhancements, and calculations required for future-state solutions.
Requirements Discovery & Functional Decomposition
- Work closely with Army stakeholders, business process owners, SAP SMEs, data teams, and architects to identify underlying business requirements.
- Document and decompose requirements including:
- Business objectives and use cases
- Financial reporting requirements
- Source systems and authoritative data
- Business rules and calculations
- Validation logic
- Organizational and financial hierarchies
- Security controls and access requirements
- Reporting frequencies and latency requirements
- Reconciliation requirements
- Upstream and downstream dependencies
- System interfaces
- Translate current-state functionality into:
- Functional requirements
- Technical requirements
- Data requirements
- Features
- User stories
- Acceptance criteria
Data Lineage, Mapping & Integration
- Perform detailed source-to-target mapping and data lineage analysis.
- Analyze and document relationships between:
- SAP ECC
- GFEBS
- SAP BW
- External Army and DoD systems
- Develop and maintain:
- Data dictionaries
- Business-rule catalogs
- Interface mappings
- Field mappings
- Transformation specifications
- Traceability matrices
- Data lineage documentation
- Document financial data elements, including:
- Fund
- Funds Center
- Functional Area
- Commitment Item
- Cost Center
- WBS Element
- Internal Order
- Business Area
- Fiscal Year
- Fiscal Period
- Document Number
- Document Type
- Posting Date
- Transaction Type
- Vendor
- Customer
- GL Account
- Amount
- Identify dependencies on external systems supporting:
- MILPERS
- DRRS
- Electronic Funds Distribution
- Financial Transaction Reporting
- Spend Planning
- Army Readiness Processes
Transition, Modernization & Future-State Support
- Develop comprehensive documentation describing how existing GFEBS functionality operates.
- Support ERP modernization and legacy system replacement initiatives.
- Collaborate with developers, architects, LCNC platform teams, and implementation teams to ensure future solutions preserve required business functionality.
- Identify capability gaps between current-state and future-state environments.
- Provide recommendations regarding:
- Retain
- Replace
- Consolidate
- Redesign
- Retire existing functionality.
- Support source-to-target mappings and migration activities for future platforms.
Validation, Testing & UAT Support
- Develop testing strategies and validation approaches.
- Establish baseline outputs from GFEBS for comparison purposes.
- Support:
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Data Validation
- Reconciliation Testing
- Functional Testing
- Exception Management and Triage
- Compare future-state results against legacy GFEBS outputs.
- Analyze variances and identify root causes involving:
- Source data
- Business rules
- Configurations
- Interfaces
- Transformation logic
- Assist with transitioning Level 1 support responsibilities to sustainment teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business, Data Analytics, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Active U.S. Secret Clearance (or higher).
- 5+ years of SAP functional and/or SAP technical experience.
- Hands-on experience with:
- SAP BW
- SAP ECC
- SAP BI/BW Reporting
- SAP Financial Management Solutions
- Strong understanding of:
- SAP financial data structures
- Reporting architecture
- Transaction processing
- Financial integrations
- Experience with:
- SAP BW data modeling
- Query development
- Extractors
- Transformations
- Reporting solutions
- Experience analyzing SAP financial modules including:
- FI
- FM
- CO
- MM
- Ability to reverse engineer existing SAP BI/BW solutions and trace data lineage from reports to source transactions.
- Experience documenting:
- Business rules
- Transformations
- Interfaces
- Dependencies
- Data lineage
- Functional requirements
- Technical requirements
- Acceptance criteria
- Experience supporting:
- ERP modernization
- Legacy system migration
- System transformation programs
- Strong knowledge of reconciliation, auditability, validation, and testing methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with:
- Business stakeholders
- Functional SMEs
- Developers
- Architects
- Program leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct GFEBS and/or GFEBS-SA experience.
- Experience supporting Army or DoD financial management operations.
- Experience with SAP BusinessObjects and SAP reporting technologies.
- Knowledge of Army financial data standards and auditability requirements.
- Experience supporting DoD ERP modernization efforts.
- Understanding of DoD internal controls, financial compliance, and data governance.
- Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments.
- Experience creating Features, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria from legacy capabilities.
- Experience supporting low-code/no-code (LCNC) workflow transformation initiatives.
- Ability to obtain additional government clearances as required.
Key Deliverables
The successful candidate will be responsible for producing:
- GFEBS BI/BW Report Inventories
- Current-State (AS-IS) Architecture Documentation
- Data Flow Diagrams
- Report-to-Source Traceability Matrices
- Source-to-Target Mapping Documents
- Functional Requirements Documents
- Technical Requirements Documents
- Business Rule Catalogs
- Data Dictionaries
- Interface Specifications
- Data Lineage Documentation
- Transformation Logic Specifications
- Gap Analyses
- Requirements Traceability Matrices
- Validation Test Scenarios
- Baseline Validation Datasets
- Reconciliation Results
- UAT Artifacts
- Transition and Modernization Recommendations