SAP FICO BA with COPA Experience

Job Title : SAP FICO BA with COPA Experience

Location : Clearwater FL 33670 (Hybrid)

Duration : Long Term Contract

Skill set MUST haves:

• Really need someone who comes in with COPA - control probability analysis
• Manufacturing org - need to know the profitability on a product level, properly determining cost to produce a product
• Production costing, production settlement, and COPA - big 3

Soft skill MUST haves:

• Needs to have a good personality - need to have influence over people
• They have a usability issue with SAP - SAP analyst on the IT team it is clear to them.
• Need someone to break down the IT teams walls, get to know them, convince them this is the better way and here is why.

Job Description:

• Demonstrate and maintain expert knowledge/leadership in functional support of SAP in the areas of Finance and Controlling (FICO).
• Develop and facilitate user trainings on new or modified systems in cooperation with departmental resources.
• Provide analytical and technical guidance and advice to users and associates regarding functional capabilities of the SAP modules and technical environment.
• Investigate and evaluate alternative technical solutions and make recommendations regarding prevalent business issues.
• Communicate complex specifications cross functionally with technical and non-technical resources to implement new process/solutions that meet business requirements.
• Analyze new opportunities to proactively leverage SAP and other technologies across the organization in an effort to improve business processes.
• Translate SAP requirements to functional specifications for reporting, interfaces, data conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows.
• Support development and maintenance of project scope/objectives through requirements gathering, goal prioritization, planning, scheduling, identification of risks, and contingency plans.
• Ensure a detailed analysis of incoming service requests, incidents, problems or fast-track demands
• Ensure the planning, control and implementation of cross-departmental and transnational IT projects, possibly involving internal and external partners.
• Proactively recommend, design, develop, and implement business processes and systems involving 3rd party technologies that may or may not interact with SAP in order to effectively meet business objectives.
• Acts as a liaison between the Technology Department and business units by:
• Opening and maintaining lines of communication to monitor and improve business unit satisfaction with technology.
• Participating in root cause analysis in order to determine appropriate actions to improve productivity for both the business units and technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Business, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or Mathematics preferred.
• Familiarity with Project Management Methodologies required.
• Applied knowledge of ERP constructs required
• 5 7 years of experience working within SAP FICO/COPA modules required. S4 HANA experience preferred.
• An understanding of FICO configuration concepts related to: GL, AA, AR, AP & COPA required.
• Experience with the SAP Fiori environment preferred.
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud is a plus.
• Experience with product costing is a plus.
• Knowledge of IFRS accounting standards required.