Business Analyst Finance ERP - FI-CO

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Whats the Role

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 S/4 - FI.

What youll be doing

An overview of the responsibilities of this role is outlined below:

• 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.

What you bring

• Minimum of 9+ years of proven project experience in the area of SAP FI, Asset Accounting, and SAP S4 Central Finance is mandatory.

Expertise in several of the following:

• 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

Special Challenges:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, rapidly changing environment. Strong engagement skills, working with senior leaders on regular basis.
• Expertise in the integration of Finance with other modules like MM, SD, PS.