Lead Process & Solutions Finance Analyst

Overview

This role is responsible for executing the organization’s SAP Financials solution and services, including projects, enhancements, and application support. Work is performed in collaboration with the business and internal IT partners and management. The position covers multiple financial accounting subprocesses and requires strong business domain expertise in finance and management accounting along with SAP functional expertise across multiple submodules of SAP.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize project, enhancement, and support requests with business and IT stakeholders and manage delivery.
• Develop systems requirements; support design, configuration, and prototyping; coordinate with IT teams to realize changes.
• Partner with finance users to test, train, define support procedures, and roll out SAP FICO business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Create functional design documents for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions.
• Develop business process functional diagrams, test plans, test scripts, and training documentation.
• Execute SAP FICO functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management, SAP CoE teams, SAP managed services providers, and related third-party application service providers.
• Ensure consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP financial and management accounting applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance, and reference architectures.
• Assist in evaluating functionality enhancements in SAP FICO upgrades and work with infrastructure and operations teams to manage upgrade rollouts.
• Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations.
• Continually assess the impact of emerging SAP and other IT technologies in the area of expertise against strategic business needs and interpret business value for IT management.
• Perform other duties deemed integral to the job by management, including fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies, and procedures.

Requirements

• Undergraduate bachelor’s or post-graduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or Business Administration.
• CPA preferred.
• Strong SAP FICO functional knowledge across multiple submodules, such as: GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Internal Orders, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Product Costing, Project Systems, FS-CM, BPC, or Hyperion.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in SAP FICO application design, development, quality assurance, testing, training, implementation, and support processes, including:
  • 1+ years of experience in an IT management and leadership role.
  • 1+ full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO and related integrations and bolt-ons such as SAP BPC (or Hyperion), Blackline, Vertex, and other third-party supporting applications using ASAP, Agile, and other SDLC methodologies.
  • Experience leading SAP FICO processes and integrating with end-to-end process design.
  • Experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
  • Full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO experience in North America.
  • Experience integrating SAP FICO solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $115,000 - $130,000
• Comprehensive health and medical benefits
• 401(k) Retirement savings plan
• Professional growth and leadership training
• Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave

Benefits may vary depending on work location.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or people of any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

Notes

The job description outlines the general nature and level of work expected and is not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. Equivalent combinations of education, experience, and skills may substitute for minimum requirements.