Principal FICO Analyst

Principal FICO Analyst

Raleigh area - NC (Locals Only)


Consultant must be local to the Raleigh area. 6-month contract to hire

W2 only.

Top Skills' Details

- Strong understanding of transactional business systems and how they interface with the business (i.e., ERP, MES, Project Systems, PLM, etc.)
- Proficient with relevant business systems i.e., SAP S4/HANA
- Demonstrated knowledge of specialty areas in financial and accounting within a supply chain organization.
- Business and financial acumen with the ability to understand complex data, financial principles, and cost accounting analysis.
- Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, and innovation skills and the proven ability identify, develop, and implement innovative strategic solutions that continuously evolve the business.
- Strong understanding of Project Management methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, etc.) and the proven ability to utilize project management skills to effectively guide cross-functional project teams.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Highly skilled at developing effective data-informed solutions to complex problems through evaluating, interpreting, and gaining insights from data.

Job Description

The Principal SAP FICO Analyst will be responsible for gathering business requirements, conducting need assessments, developing functional specifications, and facilitating systems updates to ensure that developed technology solutions support business goals. They will continuously monitor business processes to ensure they mirror best practices, utilize and evaluate business tools (i.e., process maps, value stream maps, data flow diagrams, functional requirement specifications, project management, etc.) to govern documentation of systems configuration and business processes within assigned system(s). The expectation is they will have meaningfully contributes to the technological advancement of the Butterball organization.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:
- Serves as the point-of-contact for assigned projects that includes internal tickets, systems incidents, managing day-to-day issues, coordinating testing for releases, systems optimizations, and implementation of new features. Provides support to assigned areas to ensure systems related processes are successful.
- Responsible for identifying business needs and owning the systems configurations based on those needs. Communicates and ensures proper documentation using specifications, statements of work, project plans, etc.
- Coordinates cross-functionally to test processes and ensure functionality and user acceptance. Assists in testing to discover errors or issues in business processes, documentation, or user's inability to execute transactions.
- Provides on-going application support and training of end-users. Responsible for data integrity including managing master data (i.e., General Ledger, Cost Centers, P&L data, etc.).
- Identifies opportunities for improvement, documents the future-state business processes, owns the delivery of new functionalities, maintains data and transaction integrity, and promptly recommends and facilitates process improvements.
- Implements best practices and seeks out opportunities to improve methods of doing business that will add value, improve efficiency, and/or contribute to cost reduction. Performs gap analysis and improves processes through identifying new opportunities or products to support the needs of the business.
- Supports ancillary systems and collaborates cross-functionally across other modules.
- Collaborates on reporting, evaluates data, identifies opportunities and trends, and provides insightful data-informed solutions. Responsible for purchase price valuation (PPV).
- Supports reconciliation efforts, which may include evaluating P&L and Balance sheet account reviews.
- Ensures compliance with all internal policies, regulations