SAP FI/CO Consultant

This is an FTE with one of our top clients, an aerospace company based in San Jose, California. The client is open to sponsoring/visa transfer for the right candidate. However, C2C is not possible for this role.

Job Title: Senior Staff Finance Business Systems Analyst

What you’ll do:
We are looking for an Architect level Business Systems Analyst, with a focus on Record to Report (RTR). Working in the IT Applications organization, you will support all SAP FI/CO modules and peripheral application activities. As the RTR Business Systems Analyst, you will be the Subject Matter Expert for all Record To Report activities, supporting the finance business users, and functioning as a key member of project teams throughout the project lifecycle (Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run) .

• Lead and manage all aspects of RTR projects from discovery to deployment and support.
• Analyze complex business problems / processes and translate business requirements into workable application solutions.
• Partner with and provide guidance to business teams, and act as the translator between Finance and IT teams to ensure business requirements are communicated properly.
• Conduct root cause analysis, recommend process improvements, redesign, and automation.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to facilitate project progress and ensure integrated solution design and implementation.
• Provide operational support to the finance teams.
• Business as usual and Period end closing.
• Facilitate the financial close (monthly and quarterly) and consolidation activities ensuring they are completed timely and in accordance with corporate timeline, guidelines and policies.
• Support financial controller in GAAP & local statutory reporting fillings.
• Compliance and Reporting:
• Define and execute compliance requirements related to SOX Audits & other internal / external audit requirements.
• Conduct financial controls testing and document results.
• Support the external reporting and regulatory processes such as Tax Reporting.
• Manage bank & other finance related external system interfaces.
• Develop project related documentation for GAP analysis, functional design documents, and functional specifications for development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms.
• Develop and execute functional end to end test scripts and perform unit testing, integration, and regression testing, including build test cases, executing tests, and making changes to configuration and or processes as needed.
• Train the end user community in the conversion and implementation of new processes.
• Collaborate with Application Managed Services provider support team to quickly resolve critical operational issues that impact business functions.

What you need:

• Extensive experience designing and configuring SAP ERP Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) solutions, ideally with S4 HANA.
• Should be part of 2 SAP implementations in the Record to Report from Blueprint to Go-Live.
• Should have 10 years of experience.
• B.S. with Finance major or CPA.
• Ability to be detailed in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Aerospace industry experience.
• Experience implementing SAP Group Reporting.
• Experience deploying SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) solutions.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $125,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• San Jose, CA: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $1,000 - $125,000