Job Description
Job Description
Role Title: SAP FICO Analyst
Employment Type: 3-months, Contract-to-Hire
Preferred Location: Garner, NC (3-4 days onsite)
Role Description:
- Gathers business requirements, conducts need assessments, develops functional specifications, and facilitates systems updates to ensure that developed technology solutions support business goals. Continuously monitors business processes to ensure they mirror best practices. Utilizes business tools (i.e., process maps, value stream maps, data flow diagrams, functional requirement specifications, project management, etc.) to govern documentation of systems configuration and business processes within assigned system(s). Meaningfully contributes to the technological advancement of the organization.
- Serves as the point-of-contact for assigned projects that includes internal tickets, systems incidents, managing day-to-day issues, coordinating testing for releases, systems optimizations, and implementation of new features. Provides support to assigned areas to ensure systems-related processes are successful.
- Responsible for identifying business needs and owning the systems configurations based on those needs. Communicates and ensures proper documentation using specifications, statements of work, project plans, etc.
- Coordinates cross-functionally to test processes and ensure functionality and user acceptance. Assists in testing to discover errors or issues in business processes, documentation, or user's inability to execute transactions.
- Provides ongoing application support and training of end-users. Responsible for data integrity including managing master data (i.e., General Ledger, Cost Centers, P&L data, etc.).
- Identifies opportunities for improvement, documents the future-state business processes, owns the delivery of new functionalities, maintains data and transaction integrity, and promptly recommends and facilitates process improvements.
- Implements best practices and seeks out opportunities to improve methods of doing business that will add value, improve efficiency, and/or contribute to cost reduction. Performs gap analysis and improves processes through identifying new opportunities or products to support the needs of the business.
- Supports ancillary systems and collaborates cross-functionally across other modules.
- Collaborates on reporting, evaluates data, identifies opportunities and trends, and provides insightful data-informed solutions. Responsible for purchase price valuation (PPV).
- Supports reconciliation efforts, which may include evaluating P&L and Balance Sheet account reviews.
Requirements:
* 10-12 years of experience with SAP FICO
- Experience with 1-2 S/4 HANA projects
- Strong understanding of transactional business systems and how they interface with the business (i.e., ERP, MES, Project Systems, PLM, etc.)
- Proficient with MS Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, etc.) and relevant business systems (i.e., SAP, S4/HANA, or other Enterprise Resource Planning Systems)
- Business and financial acumen with the ability to understand complex data, financial principles, and cost accounting analysis
- Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, and innovation skills and the proven ability identify, develop, and implement innovative strategic solutions that continuously evolve the business
- Strong understanding of Project Management methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, etc.) and the proven ability to utilize project management skills to effectively guide cross-functional project teams
- Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
- Excellent collaboration skills with the proven ability to share ideas, knowledge, and best practices
- Highly skilled at developing effective data-informed solutions to complex problems through evaluating, interpreting, and gaining insights from data
Preferred:
- Experience in industries such as Manufacturing, Food Manufacturing, Retail, or food industry
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