SAP Solution Specialist FIN

Job Description

Position Purpose & Summary Senior Solution Analyst will work closely with business partners and the regional functional teams to deliver process, data, and technology solutions. This position is expected to be advanced professionals in the systems & process design and implementation space and have experience on low, medium and high rigor IT projects. This job requires an experienced analyst who can partner effectively with all levels of the organization, lead others, drive results, proactively identify and resolve problems, and make challenging decisions. This position is expected to follow the Cargill Project Delivery Process and requirements Analysis and Solution Design process framework. Principal Accountabilities Solution Design 40%

• Create solution designs across process, data, and technology that meet business requirements and adhere to relevant standards and principles, leverage common tools and processes, and meet cost/delivery objectives
• Perform reviews with key stakeholders throughout the design lifecycle to ensure alignment on solution designs and requirements. This may include but is not limited to the following activities: design reviews, testing execution, deployment verifications, customer satisfaction reviews, etc.
• Create supporting solution design documentation to ensure sustainment of the solution and business capability, support solution implementation as necessary
• Identify issues relating to missing or misinterpreted business requirements, so that corrective actions can be developed and applied accordingly
• Advocate quality of solutions that meet or exceed defined business requirements
• Guide solution options and business partner decision making to minimize the amount of project investment divergence from target architecture

Analysis & Requirements Gathering 20%

• Assess Business Unit/Function needs, clearly eliciting, translating, and documenting business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Facilitate requirements discussions with key stakeholders
• Communicate and clarify the requirements to the design and development resources
• Collaborate with the key project SMEs and stakeholders to define project requirements and change requests
• Analyze and interpret data and information to guide process and solution decisions
• Plan for acceptance of solution (change management, communication, training needs)
• Assist in translating business requirements into functional design specifications

Relationship and People Management 30%

• Lead and manage team members and their work deliverables.
• Create and maintain long-term working relationships with technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors and business partners
• Engage and influence business sponsors and users and contribute to their targeted business outcomes
• Engage and influence developers to ensure productivity and solution quality
• Act as a coordinator to ensure infrastructure requirements are implemented
• Champion collaboration and enable delivery in team environment

Other Project Delivery Responsibilities (may include some or all of the following) 5%

• Manage workload and priorities to deliver agreed upon project milestones
• Provides input to staffing plans at the project-level to identify key / required skills
• Lead and mentor less experienced staff
• Holds project team resources accountable to their deliverables and ensures project execution
• Prepare high and detailed level estimations of effort in order to achieve a preferred solution
• Prepare and execute test plans
• Prepare and execute training of users and operations teams
• Provide guidance and architectural oversight during requirements, design, build, and test phases
• Work across architecture domains to identify and resolve issues and manage inter-dependencies between integration points
• Assist in the selection of employees and provide input on future workforce needs
• Provide subject matter expertise in one or more system or application

Cross Instance CO design overview and guidance 5%

• Apart from playing the design role for one of the instances of SAP, this role is also expected to oversee niche work in Material Ledger space for other instances of SAP. This is an additional responsibility over and above the instance to which this role will be tagged to

, Education, Experience, Skills Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree /Masters degree or equivalent experience in Finance .
• 8 years of successfully working as a SAP FICO/COPA Functional consultant, solution analyst or related experience on medium to large scale projects.
• 8+ years of SAP Design / Implementation /Config experience in the below SAP Finance areas
• Finance and Management accounting (controlling ) business process and modules .
• Costing and profitability analysis.
• SAP functional and technical experience in one or more of the following:
• Finance: GL, AR, AP, FA, Tax, CO/COPA, BPC
• Experience or knowledge on catch weight analysis would be good
• Knowledge on S4/HANA Finance preferred
• Proven record of interacting with the business users, Technical and other functional teams
• Knowledge of and experience working within a business analysis capacity on large and complex projects
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate technical and business information effectively to both technical and non-technical people.
• Proven conflict resolution skills
• Ability to understand the business, work across business units, be a team player and enjoy working in a team-oriented environment.
• Experienced working with ambiguity
• Strong problem solving/decision-making skills
• Experience leading and influencing others, including senior level personnel
• Established skills in identifying and developing strategies to address change management issues.
• Project demands may from time to time require work during non-standard business hours. An example would be during a system implementation at a plant which can only happen during scheduled downtime

Preferred Qualifications

• 8 + years of SAP Design and Implementation experience in SAP COPA
• Strong SAP functional and technical experience in one or more of the following:
• Finance: GL, AR, AP, FA, Tax, CO/COPA, BPC
• Deep understanding of the business processes and configuration knowledge
• Ability to travel up to 20%, domestic and/or international

Keyskills :
sales sapfinance solutiondesign projectdelivery businessprocess businessanalysis changemanagement peoplemanagement functionaldesign apficocopa