SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conduct business process analyses, needs assessments, and preliminary cost versus benefit measurements;
• Analyze and map clients’ business requirements, processes and objectives; develop necessary product modifications to satisfy clients’ needs;
• Responsible for the management of module Scope;
• Development of 3-5 year strategic roadmaps encompassing the evolution of enterprise business solution portfolios from current to future state;
• Reports to ERP Manager;
• Updates all design, configuration, and specification documentation and conducts a documentation walk through with customer;
• Assists customers anticipate, identify and resolve post-go-live issues;
• Leads workshops with customers to demonstrate and explain module functionality and best practice processes;
• Influence transition states toward joint business outcomes building on SAP solution value;
• Facilitate collaborative architecture discussions with our customer, IT and business executives;
• Lead industry /corporate process implementation across all related applications (SAP/non-SAP);
• Assists developers by responding to questions and clarifications;
• Assists customer perform integration and acceptance testing;
• Be actively involved in the preparation, conceptualization, realization and Go Live of customer implementation projects;
• Makes SAP configuration settings as required.

Requirements:

• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment;
• 1 year hands-on/project experience with S4 HANA Simple Finance migrations or implementations;
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment;
• Excellent oral, written and communication skills essential;
• 5 years of general business/manufacturing industry experience;
• Strong interpersonal skills;
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA a plus;
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation;
• A minimum of 7 years SAP consulting experience with at least 5 years in Finance and at least 2 end to end implementations;
• Knowledge of asset accounting a plus;
• Excellent planning and time management skills;
• Active role in data gathering for the implementation;
• Overall knowledge of SAP Finance solutions;
• Customer service focused attitude;
• Customer liaison role troubleshooting (investigate, analyze, and resolve) software defects.