Description
SAP FICO - 6 months+
Position Responsibilities:
- Consults with business to develop understanding of business needs and the priority of those needs.
- Analyzes and documents the business requirements and determines the impact of those requirements within a specific module and across all modules of the system
- Works with application management vendor to configure the system to meet the business requirements as identified and approved.
- Assists in continuous improvement efforts to enhance system performance and to provide enhanced functionality.
- Participates in all phases of the project life cycle project identification, feasibility, blueprinting/design, configuration, testing, documentation, implementation, training and ongoing support.
- Applies SDLC structure and enforces all identified organizational standards relative to system enhancements, changes, issues and problems.
- Develops use cases, test plans, test scripts and test cases.
- Executes test plans and test scripts/cases to ensure system changes are aligned with business requirements.
- Able to lead small to moderate size projects creating project plans, assigning and monitoring project tasks, and facilitating team meetings to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of solutions.
- Communicates with staff at all levels in the organization business and IT.
- Provides knowledge transfer and support to other Business Analysts within the department.
- Responsible for working with the business to define and implement appropriate security strategies within FICO modules
- Be an integral part/take active role in change control processes for testing & implementing system changes, fixes, enhancements, etc.
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Fluent German speaker.
- Strong SAP technical expertise and experience including:
- Minimum 4 years supporting SAP FI/CO with experience in multi-company, multi-currency, multi-language, multi-plant consumer products and/or process manufacturing a plus.
- Advanced SAP configuration experience in FI/CO. Experience with 4.6c or greater is required while experience with ECC 6.0 a plus.
- Understanding of the integration points between the modules and their dependencies around Sales & Distribution and Manufacturing.
- Report writing experience is required while BW experience is a plus.
- Participated through full life cycle of a significant SAP implementation achieving production status is preferred.
- Must have strong customer service skills, highly developed interpersonal skills and work well in a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Able to work in a global organization respecting regional and local cultural and organizational differences.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, multiple priorities and stretch goals.
- BA/BS in computer science, IS, MIS, Accounting, Finance or a related field.
- Accountancy Qualification and SAP Certification is a plus.