Sr SAP Functional Analyst - FICO

Job Summary

Responsible for support of SAP Finance solutions to enhance the business functionality and overall performance aimed at increasing the scalability and automation of operations. Works as part of the IT Applications Team to determine how technology can best be used to enable or enhance business processes. Collaborates with business, development, and other analyst teams to maximize the value of SAP investment with offerings that address finance, supply chain and HR.

Writes functional documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, and corrections; including end user documentation (training) to describe new or enhanced functionality. Provides analyses, modifies, writes and/or executes thorough change requests, test plans and checklists to ensure that business system changes are working properly, and the needs of the users are met.

• Works as part of the IT ERP Applications Team to determine how technology can best be used to enable or enhance business processes.
• Supports a business‑critical financial system, reporting and budget/forecast cycles.
• Delivers improvement of processes and functionalities utilizing latest technology.
• Partners with business process owners to provide education and insight to how technology can be used to provide process enhancements and efficiency gains.
• Reviews, analyzes, modifies, writes and/or executes thorough change request test plans and checklists to ensure that business system changes are working properly, existing processes remain unaffected and the needs of the users are met.
• Proactively researches, recommends, collaborates, presents, and assists in implementation of emerging technologies and/or vendor solutions as they relate to company's best practices.
• Acts to resolve issues which prevent the team from working effectively.
• Provides guidance to team to create high quality functional business requirements; coordinates work effort with Development team to translate functional documents into technical requirements.
• Maps current state processes to future state business processes identifying technology gaps.
• Advocates for additional technology or data as necessary to resolve key business issues in finance systems.
• Recommends technical process improvements that align with Accounting and Financial best practices, and the strategic and tactical goals of Business and IT strategy.
• Evaluates future software releases for applicable Finance related functionality.
• Works with business process owners to prioritize and incorporate applicable Finance related functionality into improved processes and service offerings.
• Proactively puts forth recommendations to address forecasted risks and changing technology environment.
• Ensures proposed technology solutions effectively integrate with or replace existing processes and customer services.
• Verifies the implemented change successfully achieves intended results.
• Identifies and implements process improvement ideas to reduce the overall time and/or cost of operations.
• Leads multiple continuous improvement projects within a given fiscal year.
• Serves as the SAP subject matter expert supporting accounting and financial business units by ensuring the input data is transacted using SAP best practices and policies.
• As part of SAP FICO team will be responsible for SAP connected systems like tax package (Vertex), GAINS (Procurement), ShipERP, etc.

• Mentors and trains new team members on processes and procedures.
• Assists in the maintenance and publication of SAP Help Documents.
• Works effectively as a team with all BSE personnel.
• Maintains business continuity and disaster recovery test documentation.
• Participates, creates, contributes and/or facilitates ongoing training for application functionality / best practice / lunch and learn topic related training.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or designate.

• 4 Year STEM Degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of SAP applications related work, including at least two full lifecycle SAP FICO implementation work experience.
• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and financial reporting standards.
• Demonstrated proven…