Lead Process & Solutions Finance Analyst

Overview

This role is responsible for executing the organization’s SAP Financials (SAP FICO) solution and related services, including projects, enhancements, and application support. Work is completed in collaboration with the finance organization and internal IT partners, as well as business and technical stakeholders. The position also supports multiple financial accounting subprocesses.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize project, enhancement, and support requests with business and IT stakeholders, and manage delivery.
• Develop systems requirements, design, configure, and prototype solutions; 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.
• Create business process functional diagrams, test plans, test scripts, and training documentation.
• Execute SAP FICO functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management, SAP Center of Excellence (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 coordinate with infrastructure and operations teams during upgrade rollouts.
• Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and provide recommendations.
• Assess the impact of emerging SAP and other IT technologies against strategic business needs and communicate business value to IT management.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management, including fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies, and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or post-graduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or Business Administration.
• CPA preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in SAP FICO application design, development, quality assurance, testing, training, implementation, and support processes, including:
  • 1+ year 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 Employment Opportunity

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