What are the responsibilities and job description for the SAP Finance Control Consultant position at Bayforce?
Role Title:
SAP FI Consultant
Employment Type:
Contract-to-Hire
Duration:
6 month contract to hire
Preferred Location:
4 days onsite in Mayfield Heights, OH. 1 day remote
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the subject matter expert to projects on SAP FICO functional modules and advise on best practices.
- Elicit requirements through interviews, process reviews, shadowing, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task & workflow analysis.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, identify and close gaps, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from underlying true needs.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and SAP functional requirements and deliver appropriate artefacts on standard templates.
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Act as the liaison between the customer community and the SAP application teams regarding SAP capability.
- Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability, functionality, and performance needs.
- Implement and deploy SAP template solution to achieve defined business goals and design, maintain, deploy solutions for Finance and controlling component and cross-functional components such as production planning, procurement, etc.
- Owns and manages the design, documentation, and implementation of processes and process improvements in conjunction with process owners, Super Users, SAP functional specialists, and third-party as part of the SAP CoE.
Requirements:
- A minimum of 5 years SAP full-cycle implementation experience in Financial Accounting, Controlling, and Management Accounting as well as support experience.
- Experienced SAP finance subject matter expert who can engage with business, extract business requirements, and configure SAP solutions.
- Previous manufacturing industry experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse stakeholder group including executives, managers, business process owners, and subject matter experts.
- Identify and manage senior stakeholders, evaluate their interests, and establish effective communication channels ensuring effective stakeholder management and engagement.
- Specify requirements for toolset adaptions, acceptance testing of implemented solutions, develop migration strategies, and plans.
- Provide technical expertise within their functional area with the team, prove accountability, and be a role model to others.
- Ensure processes, deliverables, and responsibilities are fully aligned with strategic priorities/goals of the organization.
- Good appreciation of systems design and SAP configuration.
- Working knowledge of appropriate legislation, accounting standards, including the Data Protection Act, DFARS, and ITARS.
- Day-to-day use of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Visio & PowerPoint.
- Able to facilitate workshops, lead discussions, and gain consensus views on decisions.
- Knowledge of business processes, commercial drivers, and activities.
Plus:
- CO experience.
- Experience as accountant/business role in finance.
