SAP Finance Analyst Lead

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

The SAP Finance Lead Analyst plays a critical role by partnering with Finance process owners and technology groups to fully leverage SAP capabilities and drive process standardization, process efficiencies, automation, and, ultimately, value creation.

The SAP Finance Lead Analyst will collaborate with Finance functional teams and external service providers to ensure high availability for SAP applications in his/her domain expertise, as well as to successfully execute enhancements and project work.

This role will be involved in eliciting requirements and collaborating on the design and development of SAP Finance solutions. Their domain expertise will be leveraged through strong verbal and written communication skills

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide functional and technical expertise to lead, analyze, plan, and design SAP solutions in the RTR process domain (Finance, Cost, Controlling, Treasury, Tax, Fixed Assets, Financial Reporting, and integration with other processes and SAP modules)
• Engage with business stakeholders to identify and define high-level business requirements.
• Collaborate with lead functional consultants in driving and delivering SAP solutions enabling RTR processes.
• Partner with Finance process owners to elicit and document functional requirements. Partner with business process owners and other technology groups to create foundational artifacts (testing scripts, process documentation, training, etc.).
• Collaborate with AMS service providers to ensure best practices are applied when configuring and developing SAP solutions in the RTR process domain
• Work with business process owners to support data migration as required in project execution
• Assist business teams with user acceptance testing requirements for existing and new SAP systems and modules.
• Engage in high-impact incident resolution and data recovery
• Participate in Incident Root Cause Analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
• The ability to handle stress and work well with others is an essential function of this position.
• Due to our obligation to provide continuous, reliable electric service to our customers, the ability to maintain regular and punctual attendance and the ability to work outside your regularly scheduled office hours when necessary is aareential funcfunctionsthe job.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES CONT'D

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration, 10 years of work experience.

10 years of experience leading SAP ECC or S\4HANA FICO project work and support.

10 years of experience leading SAP ECC or S\4HANA FICO project work and support.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

SAP Financial Accounting Certification 

PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

SAP Management Accounting Certification

SAP Analytics Cloud Planning Certification

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.  

Moderate diversity, low physical. Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks which are not as varied as those positions with high-level diversity and decision making.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to talk or hear; regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, taste or smell. The
employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Proven experience integrating FICO modules with other SAP modules/systems (OTC, SCM, EAM, EPPM, SuccessFactors, Concur, Analytics Cloud) and non-SAP systems (Vertex, OpenText)
• Experience in the Utilities industry
• Proven track record of success in leading RTR in at least 2 full-cycle SAP implementations with the SAP Activate Methodology
• Proven track record of success in leading RTR in at least 2 full-cycle SAP implementations with the SAP Activate Methodology