SAP Fico-COPA (Controlling - Profitability Analysis)

Role: SAP Fico-COPA (Controlling - Profitability Analysis)

REMOTE (Local St. Louis candidates preferred or anyone regional)

6+ month contract

Three areas that are most important:
1) FICO Configuration

• Describe the modules that he has configured.

2) Needs to have done Full Lifecyle Implementations:

• Describe a full life configuration.

3) Business Partnership skills

• Partner with the business- describe their role. Different roles that the business person does.

They are hiring this person to take over for a full time person. This person was the Only FICO person at this environment. They will be handling everything from implementation to support. Production support- ad hoc requests. They are buying a plant right now and bringing this plant onto SAP. So this person will be handling the implementation and migration of that SAP environment.

Most important module experience: 1)
Finance
General Ledger
AP/AR
Cost Accounting 2)
CO-PA
Open Text
Financial Supply Chain Management

Team Description (Size, Tenure, Function) & Day-to-Day Snapshot

• This will be the only FICO person.
• Interact with the business on the Winchester side.
• They are on ECC - just did an upgrade last fall. Will be doing continuous improvement.

Skills Description Top 3 Skills/Must Haves

• Communication needs to be 10 out of 10. Ability to talk with non-technical audience.
• Strong configuration skills.
• Exposure to multiple modules - AP/AR/General Ledger/ Cost Accounting/Budgeting/Collections/etc.
• Implementation experience would be great.

Description: The SAP Finance & Controlling (FICO) Sr Systems Analyst will be part of a team supporting ongoing operations and enhancements of the Winchester business's SAP applications suite. Responsibilities include the design and implementation of enhancements, support of upgrades and participation in projects throughout the entire System Development Lifecycle (SDLC), as required.
Essential Job Functions:

• Stay abreast of SAP releases and new functionality and makes related recommendations to internal business customers and IT management.
• Collaborate with internal business customers and liaise with cross-functional project teams to understand business process, plan, and implement changes in production environment of SAP ECC; Execute user acceptance testing for new and modified processes and systems components.
• Document scope and requirements for enhancements, changes, and breakages; Including development and documentation of requirements, configurations, and testing enhancements, changes, and break-fixes.
• Ensure that issues are handled end-to-end in terms of integration with other SAP modules.
• Ensure compliance with Change Control procedures for on-going changes, enhancements and projects and maintain operational procedures around supported environments.
• Maintain Document Repository for business and IT processes.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree* in Information Technology, Computer Science, Accounting, Business, or related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years' experience working with SAP Finance module(s)
• Must be able to support all parts of the SAP FICO configuration, including but not limited to: Account Receivable and Accounts Payable, FSCM Credit/Collections/Disputes Management, and Product Costing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Attention to detail, self-motivation, independence, and ability to work in a team-oriented environment
• Analytical and creative problem-solving skills

Preferred skills and/or experience:

• 7+ years' experience working with SAP Finance module(s)
• Knowledge of the integration points with SAP Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), and/or Production Planning (PP) module(s)
• Experience with SAP Analysis for Office
• Knowledge of SAP Analytics solutions (BOBJ, SAC, Datasphere, etc.)