Description
Location: Luton or Macclesfield
Duration: 12 Months
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for ‘keeping the lights on’ for all the critical Finance global & local reporting solutions.
- Apply data, analytics, process, and object expertise to support interim state and S/4 design, acting as an integral part of the Data and Analytics design team, considering both business process and analytics requirements.
- Gain understanding and insights, very rapidly, of the complex financial landscape, financial data flows and data models that will get impacted during each deployment phase of the Axial program.
- Own relationship with various Axial Finance groups like Axial Finance Data, R2R Enterprise Process Owners & Leads, FI Analytics teams and Axial IT teams to understand the S/4 HANA Target State; likewise interact with BAU GBS business and FDH IT groups for the AsIS estate. Through this collaboration understand the impact of new data definition and design on Finance Analytics in areas of Management reporting, Statutory reporting, Group reporting etc.
- Influence Enterprise Process Owners, Global Business Process Owners and the Finance business communities to transform from old ways of mindset into the Axial way; where appropriate move or use Axial analytics.
- Provide direction as a Solution architect in designing, building, adjusting Interim State strategy during various phases of S/4 HANA (Axial) transformation program. The solution framework should be global in nature while allowing flexibility for localization remediation.
- Drive participation in SIPOC deliverables (User stories, KDDs detailed working sessions etc.) for Design Workshops for Interim State along with Axial Localization workshops.
- Align with PMO BAU units and stakeholders to map out interim state remediation timelines aligning to Axial schedules. Perform readiness checks for test data quality,data volume lower environment landscape UAT readiness etc.,for all deployment schedules.
- Constantly monitor evaluate risks in provided solutions timelines remediation (build) collaborate with Interim State teams on ways to mitigate risk via technology process or ways of working.
- Analyze impact of other inflight projects proposed projects mergers acquisitions on interim state strategy remediation plans; provide guidance for adjusting interim state strategy based on changing ecosystem during implementation.
- Evaluate issues after post golive propose solutions workarounds mechanisms to avoid similar issues future go-lives.
- Be comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic matrixed environment capable achieving results often short timelines.
Essential Requirements:
- 20+ years experience in SAP Finance projects.
- Two or more full life-cycle S/4 HANA implementations several ECC implementations; experience managing interim state for Finance at least one these implementations/or integration resulting M&A Divestitures.
- Experience implementing SAP CFIN.
- Deep functional expertise SAP S/4 HANA FI CO.
- Expertise one more areas Record Report Financial Master data enterprise structure product costing material ledger group reporting value chains intercompany processes etc.
- Experience knowledge Parallel Ledger Financial close Reconciliation process Document split profit center accounting new asset account both S/4 HANA ECC; subject matter expert differences S/4 HANA vs ECC FI Co Module functionalities
- Experience knowledge Analytics tools Data Warehouses like PowerBI Qlik Azure Data lake Snowflake SAP B4H SAP Analytics Cloud etc
- Bachelor’s master’s degree finance accounting.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience knowledge FP&A tools Hyperion SAC Planning Anaplan etc
- Experience newer Finance modules concepts S/4 HANA e.g., PaPM UPA Integration Finance other Lines Business e.g., Logistics Inventory Management Operations planning Supply Chain Manufacturing etc
- Lifesciences Healthcare industry experience