IT Business Analyst SAP FICO

The SAP Business Analyst FICO will have responsibility for working with multiple business partners to support, monitor and improve our global business processes and the configuration of the enterprise business systems that enable them. The areas of focus will include General Ledger, Costing and Controlling, Fixed Assets, Credit and Risk Management, Collections, Accounts Payable, Billing, Cash Application/Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statement.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional activities related to large ERP implementations. Responsible for activities from requirements gathering through design, development and implementation.
• Provide technical leadership in the design, development and implementation of application forms, reports, interfaces, conversions and extensions (FRICE) to meet the needs of the business and project scope.
• Maintain Enterprise application solution by coordinating new design requirements and FRICE development with ongoing deployments through supporting reviews with the Change Audit Board (CAB) and following Ingersoll Rand guidelines.
• Assist with business process re-engineering utilizing best business practices supported by SAP ECC in the area of FICO to improve productivity.
• Drive the adoption of standard work processes, standard application functionality and data standards
• Deliver specific implementation/support expertise required on FICO.
• Responsible for process, data analysis, data clean-up, conversion and validation
• Develop and perform detailed unit and integration testing, cut-over planning, and execution
• Responsible for Super User training and training material design
• Ensure alignment with the PMO to follow common processes, methodology and framework for implementation
• Facilitate key stakeholders alignment and engagement for the program; holding stakeholders accountable for delivering against their commitments.
• Investigate future system releases enhancements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or related field; MBA preferred.
• Minimum fifteen years of SAP implementation experience for large global enterprises.
• Proven track record in manufacturing industry, including SAP S/4HANA transformation.
• 5-7 years of ERP implementation experience and leading projects, with at least 2 full implementation life cycle experience with multinational companies
• 3-5 years of experience in direct configuration of SAP FICO is highly desired along with hands-on working experience with Finance and Controlling processes with good knowledge of other modules closely related to FICO
• Knowledge of Oracle R12 and 11i ERP Systems as well as Finance Bolt-on Applications such as GetPaid, Concur, Blackline (GL, Journal and Cash Allocation) and Basware would also be beneficial.

Travel Work Arrangements/Requirements

This role requires 4 days in the office, and 25% global travel

Key Competencies

• Demonstrated experience with: (1) Requirement gathering and Gap/Fit Analysis, (2) System Configuration and creation of complex interfaces/extensions, (3) Support of large ERP instances by following standard of work, (4) Management of data conversion activities, (5) Unit / Regression / Integrated / Stress testing plans and execution, (6) Cutover planning. (7) Super User Training and training material design.
• Works in a collaborative fashion, elevates team results over individual results.
• Excellent communication skills, presenting, listening and informing. Can communicate upward and downward. Fluent in English.
• Ability to quickly prioritize issues/requests and be capable of personally diving deep when required to deliver solutions within an accelerated timeframe.