SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting & FP&A

Overview:

The SAP FICO Analyst Level -3 FICO SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting plays a crucial role in leading, designing, and implementing financial solutions within SAP, ensuring business processes align with IT strategy and industry best practices. This position requires deep expertise in SAP Financials and Controlling (FICO) modules, focusing on configuration, testing, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering & Solution Design
• Lead discussions with stakeholders to assess current processes and business needs.
• Recommend and design enhancements, considering system options, risks, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Provide expert guidance on SAP solutions to optimize financial workflows.
• SAP Configuration & Documentation
• Configure complex SAP FICO solutions to meet evolving business requirements.
• Execute full-cycle SAP implementations, ensuring alignment with IT long-term strategy.
• Develop and maintain documentation for system configurations and business processes.
• Testing & Integration
• Define and implement end-to-end testing strategies, including integration testing.
• Lead system validations and troubleshoot complex incidents to ensure seamless performance.
• Project Management & Support
• Participate in major and minor release deliveries, ensuring successful deployments.
• Provide strategic support by evaluating system corrections and resolving critical issues.
• Continuous Learning & System Enhancements
• Stay up to date with emerging SAP trends, new functionalities, and industry s best practices.
• Ensure SAP FICO modules maintain high functional efficiency through ongoing improvements.

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Bachelor s degree foreign educational equivalent or equivalent based on combination of education and/or experience.
• Required Experience: In addition to degree or equivalent, must have all the following:
• Minimum 8 years of SAP experience in implementing and support of FICO, GL, AR, AP, AA, CO-PA, Lockbox processes, Cash Applications, FSCM and integration to other process areas Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Business Warehouse (BW).
• Minimum 5 years of SAP functional experience in a Fortune 1000 or like enterprise, including requirements gathering, design and customization.
• Minimum of 1 full lifecycle implementations in SAP S/4HANA specific to SAP Financials and Controlling (FICO) by following SAP Activate Methodology.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with SAP S/4HANA Record to Report (RTR) workstream specific to Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Cash Application, Asset Accounting, Collections Management, Dispute Management and Bank Integrations.
• Minimum 1 years of experience with SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting workstream specific to Consolidation, Period Preparation, Data Preparation, ICMR, Elimination Method, Data Monitor & Consolidation Monitor.
• Minimum 1 years of experience with SAP S/4HANA SAC Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A).
• Minimum 1 year of experience in SAP Solution Manager including experience in SAP CHARM process.
• Minimum 1 year of experience communicating technical and business issues/solutions to all levels of management.

Preferred Experience:

• SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).
• Integration of SAP solution to Vertex External Tax Engine.
• Paymetric credit card processing application.
• SAP Advanced Financial Closing (AFC).
• OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) solution for both PO based, and non-PO based vendor invoice solution scenarios.
• SAP Master Data Governance (MDG).
• Experience in complex SAP environments, supporting multiple SAP components, preferred.
• SAP certification(s) in SAP FICO functional area.