SAP FICO Analyst with Project Systems experience

The SAP Financial Project Systems Analyst is a subject matter expert on a wide variety of areas/topics inside the SAP ECC and S/4HANA systems, specifically in the Project Systems, Finance, and Controlling modules. As part of the ERP team, this team member will work with business resources and development teams throughout the complete project life cycle. Responsibilities will include defining business processes, driving the analysis of business requests to identify the best solution from an SAP perspective, configuring the SAP application, authoring functional specifications, and providing SAP support activities.

Responsibilities

• Participate in analysis and design of business processes and implement SAP system and other business applications enhancements to support the process changes.
• Configure the SAP system to facilitate business processes and transaction flows
• Analyze, understand, and support reporting throughout the organization
• Execute configuration requests for SAP
• Researches and identifies new business opportunities and improvements and promotes innovation by identifying and establishing standard and alternative methods to address project complexity and maintain a competitive advantage.
• Researches and recommends enterprise-wide best practices, standards, tools, and process improvements to meet business needs.
• Provide training to end users and create end-user documentation as needed
• Educates the organization on the role, processes, and importance of business systems analysis to provide expertise and value and to foster optimal working relationships, collaboration, and effective communication.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience with Project Systems, Results Analysis, Customer Projects and Capital Projects.
• Minimum of 5 years of SAP applications experience, including process and configuration knowledge
• At least 2 full lifecycle SAP project implementations and experience in a production system support role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of SAP Project Systems (knowledge of PS structures like: WBS, Network, Milestones, Cost Planning, Budgeting, Scheduling, Multi Resource scheduling, Project quotation, Time sheets, settlement rules, etc.)A/P, A/R, Billing and Revenue Recognition, Asset Management, and GL
• SAP S/4HANA Project Systems implementation experience
• Knowledge of and work within the Agile methodology preferred.
• Individual must be able to communicate recommendations effectively to all levels in the organization.
• Strong business acumen to quickly learn new business processes and understand how IT needs to support the business
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills to effectively translate ideas, concepts and information
• Strong collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical IT teams
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to translate business functionality and opportunities into clear, precise and easy-to-read functional specifications critical
• Experience in a regulated environment
• Extensive knowledge of business operations, strategies and objectives and strong facilitation, consensus building and presentation skills required.
• Well-grounded in business principles, processes and concepts related to finance, sales, manufacturing, and distribution
• Demonstrated ability to work in a diverse environment rather than specialized on a single module
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business requirements and translate them into system-supported solutions
• Must be able to handle multiple priorities at one time and remain results-oriented
• Must work well both independently and in a team environment
• Knowledge of Concur, VIM, and Vertex strongly desired
• Working knowledge and/or expertise in CATS, Earned Value Management (EVM), and resource related billing
• Working knowledge and/or expertise in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
• Familiarity with Dassian and/or other Aerospace and Defense SAP solution extensions
• Understanding of SAP Security

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