Job Description :

Responsibilities:

• This is a hands-on, role which involves work with a portfolio of SAP Finance & Tax applications gathering business requirements and delivering both large and small projects and enhancements in the Finance ERP portfolio.

• Work closely with IT Managers and the Business to ensure that new requirements are understood and captured

• Drive/participate in requirements gathering workshops

• Assess and model business processes, data flows, and technology to understand the current value and issues, and identify opportunities for improvement

• Translate business requirements into solutions and assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts

• Create clear documentation to communicate requirements and related information; keep updated to align with the solution over the project lifecycle

• Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs and requirements, through testing and scope changes, to final solution

• Interact with software engineers, designers and developers to understand software limitations, deliver elements of system and database design, and ensure that business requirements and use cases are fully accommodated

• Create acceptance criteria for test scenarios and participate in the appropriate test cycles in order to validate that solutions meet business needs

• Define and maintain standards, methodologies, tools and knowledge repositories along with contributing to functional excellence in terms of standards, methods and tools.

• Ensure lessons learned from market service implementations are identified, applied and acted upon.

• Accountable for driving continuous improvement, life-cycle/portfolio management, and stable operations in all IT applications that underpin business-critical processes with end to end ownership of the portfolio capability.

Special Challenges:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, rapidly changing environment. Strong engagement skills, working with senior leaders on regular basis.

• Expertise in the integration of Finance with other modules like PTW (PS-TW, PS-HR) and GSR.

• Knowledge in Central Finance

• Knowledge of latest ERP trends/developments/products or Certifications is a plus.

Skills & Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of proven project experience in the Area of Finance & Controlling.

• Expertise in several of the following:

o Advanced Financial Close, General Ledger, Cross company configuration & Interfaces.

• Integration experience with other SAP modules FCC is highly beneficial.

• Good understanding of Inter-Group Billing among entities within Organization (Resource Related Billing functionality for services rendered, Invoice list).

• Knowledge and practical experience of working with in SAP S/4HANA Finance, Central Finance.

• Drive simplification and cost reduction in the existing platforms.

• Very good understanding of financial processes, including period end closing.

• Good Understanding of SAP Best practices for simplified transition to S/4HANA.

• Understanding of IT project management and project delivery methodology, including agile

• Understanding of IT security and compliance

• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills

• Ability to prioritize and multi-task

• Minimum Education or Certification: 4-year Degree related to IT