Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities across typical phases of an SAP project:
Analyze Phase:
- Ability to understand client business model / requirements / pain points
- Ability to understand big picture vision of the transformation program and prepare a plan to drive the day-to-day execution of the project.
Design Phase:
- Ability to explain best practices to clients.
- Ability to respectfully challenge clients and convince them on their mindset of customizing everything in SAP.
- Ability to conduct workshops across all finance processes and articulate messages extremely clearly.
- Ability to convince clients to make key design decisions (eg: one common chart of accounts OR decentralized chart of accounts)
- Ability to provide SAP or non-SAP solutions to unique problems / business scenarios based on your experience with other companies in same or other industries.
- Ability to prepare deliverables such as blueprint documentations, change impact assessment, Fit/Gap analysis, etc. and obtain sign-offs
Build Phase:
- Ability to educate clients on SAP configuration needs for them to provide SPRO values
- Ability to perform configurations in SAP
- Ability to write Functional design documents for add-on requirements in SAP. Ability to communicate with developers to build as desired.
- Ability to assist in Unit Testing and perform SIT.
Test Phase:
- Ability to write test scripts and test scenarios with co-operation of key finance business users.
- Ability to obtain sign offs for Test scripts.
- Ability to facilitate UAT.
- Ability to identify defects and liaise with developers to resolve and re-test them.
Training Phase:
- Ability to prepare easy to understand and self-explanatory training materials
- Ability to conduct mass user training (TTT / EUT). Ability to handle large crowds.
- Ability to be confident, concise, and articulate in training.
Data Migration:
- Ability to create a data strategy for master data and transactional data (eg: how should the cost centers be transformed, what happens to AR open items, etc.)
- Ability to assist business users in data cleansing and data transformation.
Deployment:
- Ability to assist and advice business users for cutover activities.
Post Go-live:
- Ability to provide 1st level support up until 1st month end close.
Skills and Attributes for Success
Must Have skills (at least 40% from the below list):
- Enterprise structure design / Finance Master data
- General Ledger
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- Asset Accounting
- Product Costing
- Statutory reporting
- Tax
- Treasury
- Profitability Analysis / Management Reporting
- Strong cross functional understanding with PP, MM, SD.
Good to Have skills:
- Consolidation & Elimination process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Group reporting or others).
- FP&A - Budgeting and Forecasting process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Analytics Cloud, BPC, or others).
- Account Reconciliations knowledge using Blackline, High Radius or others.
- Allocations knowledge using PaPM or others.
- Advanced Statutory reporting knowledge using Workiva, SAP ACR or others.
If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.