SAP FI/CO Sr. Business Systems Analyst

SAP FI/CO Sr. Business Systems Analyst

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Title: SAP FI/CO Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Location: Mission Viejo, CA & Chicago, IL

Role: Fulltime/Permanent (

Initially

Remote )

Job Summary: The SAP FI/CO Sr. Business Systems Analyst will play a lead role in client’s SAP Finance Team while working closely with our Finance organization and driving continuous improvement through business partnerships to develop timely and innovative sustainable ‘end to end’ solutions. This involves collaboration with other SAP functional and development teams to

design,

develop,

test, and

implement appropriate

configuration within the Finance (

FI) and Controlling (

CO) modules of SAP, including the

FSCM Application to effectively meet business requirements. This role will combine FICO

production

support activities for business as well as new functional enhancements and

project implementations.

Responsibilities
Provides ongoing business support for Finance processes and Applications by:

• Becoming familiar with existing SAP FICO design and enhancements as well as 3rd party applications such as
  Cash Applications,
  BI Reporting and
  Hyperion
  HFM (Consolidations / Planning)
• Analyzing problem
  tickets through root cause
  analysis, and determining appropriate solutions; and
• Updating
  configuration and as needed working with developers to modify programs and ensuring adequate end user
  testing and acceptance of all FICO changes.
• Coordinating support escalation, communication with business, service desk, and technical teams.
• Supporting
  cross-functional issues investigation, testing, and resolution.
• Researching issues in SAP
  OSS and implementation of
  OSS notes.
• Interfacing with internal / external auditors during
  SOX audits.
• Supporting
  Audit,
  Tax, and
  Statutory Reporting (i.e., sales tax reporting, 1099 filing)
• Supporting Month, Quarter, and Year-end Finance Closing and
  Reporting processes.
• Ensure that all IS Helpdesk SLAs and metrics are adhered to.

Enhancements And Projects Support

• Partnering with Business Stakeholders to identify opportunities to optimize existing processes and technology as well as assessing new technologies and business solutions.
• Supporting Stakeholders to develop ‘ROI’ and ‘business cases’ for project reviews and approval.
• Leading implementation efforts, including design, build, test, documentation, and go-live activities.
• Writing clear, complete functional specifications from business requirements for development Team
• Create and design training and process documentation for new functionality and projects for end user training.
• Participate in project management by managing small to medium size projects from definition through implementation.
• Communicate issues, enhancement, project status to business stakeholders and management.

Continuous Improvement

• Works closely with the Finance organizations to recommend business process changes based on knowledge of SAP and best business practices by:
• Researching and identifying appropriate SAP solutions to optimize and increase adoption; and
• Using past experiences and knowledge of
  SAP New GL / AR/ AP/ Assets / Banking to support processes and design to improve, Order-to-Cash (
  OTC), Procure-to-Pay (
  PTP), Acquire-to-Retire (
  RTR), Record-to-Report (
  RTR) finance related functions.
• Collaborating with Business stakeholders and functional SAP teams to deliver new business process and or SAP functionality.
• Assisting users in determining the best methods for data reporting, either via standard reports, SAP query, custom programs, or BI analytics.
• Developing reporting with SAP Query, report writer, and report painter.
• Ensuring solution and processes comply with IT SOX requirements.

Required - Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Broad and deep knowledge of SAP FI [
  AR (cash application),
  New General Ledger,
  Accounts Payable,
  Asset Accounting,
  Cost Center Accounting,
  Internal Orders,
  Product Cost Controlling, Profit Center Accounting,
  COPA, Banking (
  FSCM),
  Hyperion].
• Working
  knowledge of
  SD / MM / PM/ TM/ WMS / VIM and especially integration with FI and reporting.
• Need to be able to translate business requirements and architect sustainable solutions.
• Need to be able to dig into systems to reverse-engineer undocumented finance processes or custom functionality.
• Experience using
  ASAP /
  AGILE /
  Waterfall project methodologies.
• Experience with the other
  SAP ECC 6.0 components (i.e., PI, BI,
  Enterprise Portal…)

• Knowledge of GAAP accounting including strong understanding of cost accounting in a mfg. environment.
• Knowledge or experience with technical development objects and understand how they interact with SAP (Reports, Interfaces, Customizations, Enhancements, and Forms).
• Experience with SAP upgrades, enhancement packs and migrations.
• Can
  lead and develop fellow
  FICO team members.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and multi-tasking skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of all aspects of a full life cycle implementation.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10%.

Required - Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business, Finance, or related field.

• 6+ years of SAP FICO configuration experience, including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Assets Accounting, Banking, Internal Orders, Allocations, COPA, CCA, Profit Center Accounting, Credit Management, Consolidations, Dispute Management(ECC 6.0 preferred).

• 3+ years of experience in a production support environment.
• Additional experience with
  Treasury,
  In-House Cash Management,
  Lockbox,
  EDI/IDOC,
  ABAP, Query,
  BW/BI,
  MM/WM,
  VIM and
  Hyperion desired.

Best Regards,

Abrar
Senior Recruiter
Phone: 609.917.9485