The Functional Analyst – SAP Finance will is responsible for identifying and documenting the business needs of their clients and stakeholders. Will be extensively working in the area of SAP - FI (ECC)
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.
Skills & Requirements
• Minimum of 10+ years of proven project experience in the Area of Project Systems & Finance
• Expertise in several of the following:
o General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cost Centre and Profit Centre Accounting, Cross company configuration & Interfaces.
• Good understanding of Inter-Group Billing among entities within Organization (Resource Related Billing functionality for services rendered, Invoice list).
• Very good understanding of financial processes, including period end closing.
• Good Understanding of SAP Best practices
• 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
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