Lead Process & Solutions Finance Analyst

Overview

This role is responsible for execution of the SAP Financials (SAP FICO) solution and services, including projects, enhancements, and application support—working with the finance business and internal IT partners.

The position covers multiple financial accounting subprocesses and requires both finance/management accounting domain expertise and SAP functional expertise across multiple submodules (e.g., GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Internal Orders, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Product Costing, Project Systems, FS-CM, BPC, or Hyperion).

Responsibilities

• Prioritize project, enhancement, and support requests with business and IT stakeholders, including managing delivery.
• Develop systems requirements; design, configure, and prototype solutions; coordinate with IT teams to realize changes; partner with finance users to test and train; define support procedures; and roll out SAP FICO business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Create functional design documents for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions.
• Build 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 support infrastructure/operations teams in managing upgrade rollouts.
• Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and provide recommendations.
• Continually assess the impact of emerging SAP and other IT technologies within the area of expertise against strategic business needs and interpret business value for IT leadership.
• Perform other duties as deemed integral by management, including fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and compliance with 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.

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.

Location

Not specified in the job description.