SAP Fi/Co Lead Functional Analyst (Maunfacturing)

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders as a liaison between Information Technology (IT) and leadership for assigned business units or vendors.
• Lead Financials related functional and technical design, configuration, development and support for continuous improvements and SAP deployments globally
• Develop and execute test plans to check infrastructure, security, systems technical development and functional configuration, and where possible, makes recommendations for improvement.
• Lead design sessions in prototyping new systems for enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow across the ERP platform
• Conduct Proof of Concept (POC) for feasibility studies, evaluate, qualify and select third party software, vendors and/or service providers.
• Contribute to complex system and process end-to-end architecture designs, integration requirements, and specification documents
• Proactively establish and conduct training on SAP ECC or S4 functionality or Finance business processes.
• Foster strong communications between business users and application developers to understand key issues, identify perception gaps, and resolve questions.
• Oversee junior system/business analysts within the overall IT Finance team
• Adhere to existing change management and service management policies and procedures
• Manage small and large project schedules, track progress while providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions, and resolving conflicts.
• Work with SAP Developers to unit test and deliver SAP applications by defining, documenting, and building test case scenarios and creating data for unit testing as needed.
• Integrally involved in "buy vs. build' decision-making.
• Is proactive in understanding the customer's business processes, the key drivers and measures of success for the business, and the short and long-term direction of the business and technology.
• Participate in prioritizing work requests to deliver on business initiatives; create estimates for upcoming projects and minor and major enhancements.
• Identify, propose, and influence business solutions and negotiate deliverables and requirements across multiple business customers or organizations.
• Provide risk analysis to business partners for proposed solutions and mitigation options if necessary.
• Assesses and identifies opportunities for continuous improvements in business and system process while also assisting with the development of metrics, both within the technology and business organizations.
• Supports compliance team with monthly, quarterly SOX audits and supporting the annual internal audit and external audit cycles with appropriate documentation and testing coordination with hosting partners and technology vendors