Description
LisboSAP FICO Consultant - English Speaking. Lisbon, Portugal. Start: 27th August Month Contract
Our end-client based in Lisbon, Portugal requires an SAP FICO Consultant for a 6 month project with a very high chance of a further 6 month extension.
Required Skills and Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years of SAP FICO experience
- Experience of SAP FI/CO accounting systems implementation is a must
- Ability to understand & analyse existing Accounting processes & data, and to troubleshoot, correct, or enhance existing solutions.
- Ability to interact with accounting and controlling business users as well as IT infrastructure and batch monitoring teams
- Good knowledge of SAP data model
- Skills on a ticketing tool (preference = IBM Rational ClearQuest).
- Ability to develop requirements based on input gathered from a variety of sources including statutory requirements from various countries, analysis results and feedback from the user community
- Ability to produce project deliverables and review for completeness and quality and compliance with established project standards
- Ability to maintain good relationships with users
- Ability to support and perform user acceptance tests with the users
Must have:
- Ability to work in complex environments (multi-cultural/multi-country/geographically distributed team)
- Ability to anticipate issues and react promptly
- Excellent Communication skills
- Ability to take ownership of problems and issues and manage to resolution
- Ability to work effectively with business partners.
Nice to have:
- Experience in SAP BW-BO, ARIBA Buyer/Invoice solutions implementation is a plus
- Experience of BAU service delivery in BAU mode for solution implemented in several countries is a plus.
- Hands-on BAU experience in IT services, consulting or in IT department of a large international company is a plus
- Ability to work in a distributed delivery model, with near and offshore teams
- Kanban knowledge is a plus
Languages:
- Must be fluent in English
- Italian or Portuguese is a plus
Main Duties and Tasks:
1 - Provide Local Support to users
- User assistance: Questions and answers, ad hoc requests
- Incidents: First level of diagnosis and coordination of local investigations (Other systems, Local IT, SMEchecking the right severity levels and challenge them if needed)
- Small changes: Gather local requests, check severity levels, assess solution impacts and sizing, core and standard alternatives, contribute to the Review Committees and lead Qualification committees
2 - Administrate local Portfolio and Clearquest tool, track outputs and resolutions
- Raise Incidents and small changes in Clearquest with the required detail description and quality, address questions & answers .
- Track Clearquest tickets until their resolution and communicate back to the users on resolution actions
- Mobilize and support the business to allow them closer of tickets
- Contribute to meetings with BAU Service Management team to review status, update plans and update priorities.
- Participate in the BAU Committees, as well as in the ad hoc meetings required, ie Quarterly closings follow-up meeting
- Participate to the Process Review Committees
- Lead Qualification Committees for your respective domain
3 - Deliver the functional design of the local features and requirements
- Liaise with Finance representatives (Process Owners mainly)
- Get support from Central Demand/Supply teams in Lisbon with Solution Expertise
4 - Contribute to project and small change deployments
- Coordinate gathering of requirements and local impacts analysis and perform Solution test or UAT (communication, tests plans, test data )
- Update training materials and review local usage
5 - Perform solution training
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