Description
ASAP Talent Services, a VMG company, is a leading executive search and management consulting firm specializing in ERP solutions. With over 20 years of experience, our team excels in SAP, Cybersecurity, IT projects, talent acquisition, and contract staffing. We've successfully placed hundreds of experts with top companies worldwide, delivering reliable and skilled talent to meet our clients' needs.
Title: Sr. SAP FI Functional Analyst
Location / Hybrid: Boston, MA (Bedford); This position is site-based and requires a presence on-site three days per week.
Summary
This role will serve as our Principal Business Analyst, SAP Finance with a focus on key SAP FI initiatives and supporting on continuous improvements. This role will partner with the Core IT team and focus on the technology supporting the Finance and Controlling processes. The Principal Business Analyst, SAP Finance will act as an intermediary between the financial business and technical community. The resource will work with IT project teams and business clients within all areas across financial functions (AR, AP, Accounting) and is responsible for Requirements gathering and analysis, solution design and implementation, support and system integration.
The company maintains a portfolio of commercial operation systems responsible for quoting, ordering, shipping- receiving- traceability- and reporting on all inventory and financial planning activities across the company. Specifically- this role will be the primary project resource focused on the design, implementation, and enablement of SAP FICO & FP&A transactions. The candidate is expected to perform high-quality project work for his/her stakeholders, continue to build the SAP capability and foster its continued growth within the Organization
Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions
- Perform detailed analysis of Finance and Controlling business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions; identify, interpret, validate and document business requirements.
- Provide support to finance staff on defining and documenting system processes, data flow, controls and interfaces for financial information systems. Provide analytical and technical support to team members and end users.
- Map client business requirements, processes, and objectives; develops necessary product modifications to satisfy enterprise-wide needs.
- Support operations including end user assistance, system troubleshooting, and configuration of the core SAP FICO (S4 HANA) modules as needed.
- Identify gaps, issues, and work around solutions.
- Document functional designs, test cases and results.
- Proactively identify and propose business process and/or system enhancements
- Act as a liaison between the business functions and the technical team.
- Continually assess the impact of emerging SAP technologies against strategic business needs and interpret business value for the IT management.
- Develop productive relationships with business across the organization to influence how SAP Finance applications can enable new sources of value.
- Ability to work independently, effectively coordinating multiple priorities in a dynamic and changing environment and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. May act as subject matter mentor to business partners which includes ad-hoc training.
- Update and maintain all SAP/WRICEF functional documentation.
- Conduct Unit tests, Integration tests, and Regression tests and document all test results according to the QA process.
- Maintain knowledge of compliance and ensure all work activities are conducted within the regulatory requirements, related policies and procedures, and corporate objectives
- Effectively evaluate and shift priorities appropriately based on multiple considerations and changing demands.
This position is a site-based role, working onsite at the Company's Bedford, MA headquarters 3 days a week.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a full cycle implementation as well as in support projects. • Minimum of 8+ years designing and configuring FICO modules and SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) applications.
- The candidate should have strong knowledge of Finance processes and S4 HANA FICO, this includes AP, AR, GL, PCA, Fixed Assets, Project Systems, SAC, Group Reporting, Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) and all associated Master Data.
- Very good understanding of integration with MM, SD, PP and in depth understanding of cross-functional business processes is a must.
- Experience leading SAP teams at a functional level including the creation of architecture standards, reference architectures and data models.
- Experience on interfaces with both SAP and non SAP systems. Examples Ariba, OneSource, Paymentus, to name a few.
- Must be familiar with SOX and General Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple deliverables and projects at the same time
- Ability to understand business processes from a customer perspective
- Ability to work in a team environment, effectively interacting with others
- Must be results oriented, and demonstrate a can-do attitude – adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
- Knowledge of Life Sciences Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process is highly preferred.
- Must be familiar with testing, deployment, and release management.
- Exceptional client stakeholder management experience
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Good understanding of Pharma guidelines including GAMP, 21 CFR Part 11 etc.
