SAP Finance Business Process Expert

Who are we, and what do we do?
Corteva Agriscience creates the world's most recognized and premium agricultural solutions to address the greatest challenges in agriculture. With a focus on technology, Corteva Agriscience creates seed and crop protection products that increase productivity and profit for farmers while reducing risks to their business. Every day our digital tools deliver insights our global partners need to thrive now and into the future.

As the world’s first dedicated agriculture start-up, we’re building a culture that stays curious, thinks differently, acts boldly and takes a stand on what’s right for our customers, our co-workers, our partners and our planet. We know we’ve got big challenges to solve - we hope you'll be part of the solution. Whether you are in the lab or on the farm, teaching classes or crafting code - we need bold thinkers and fearless doers to bring their best to the job at hand. Every role at Corteva Agriscience includes an opportunity to grow what matters.

Corteva Agriscience is looking for an SAP Finance Business Process Expert (BPE) to be part of the Digital & Platforms ERP Finance team. The BPE will be responsible for designing, configuring, testing, and maintaining the SAP ECC and S/4HANA Finance applications during the entire application lifecycle.

The role includes strong knowledge of Finance business processes globally, supporting SAP systems with region-specific localizations. The position is a key liaison between our ERP solutions, the line-of-business teams and the business product owner. This position defines and drives the tactical, day-to-day aspects of discovering, validating, documenting and mapping business processes to SAP-ERP solutions through modeling, simulating and analyzing current and future states.

The BPE must be able to bridge the IT and business domains and effectively communicate between each side. The BPE will thoroughly understand the Corteva Agriscience Finance, and Financial Services business strategy and processes in order to participate in executing and managing the Finance Product Roadmap.

Key Responsibilities - What you will do to help us grow!

• Primary IT point of contact across Corteva’s SAP Financial Services solution.
• Assist business in mapping, documenting & enhancing local Financial Services processes to existing solution in SAP-ECC, and help them in future to implement it in S/4HANA. Assist in definition of functional and non-functional system requirements.
• Translate process design to systems design on the SAP ECC and S/4HANA platforms.
• Maintenance and production support of global SAP ECC systems through end-of-life as they get replaced by S/4HANA.
• Implementation of business-driven changes via projects or enhancements to ERP, including integration with bolt-on or 3rd-party applications, whether SAP or non-SAP, on-premise or SaaS.
• Definition and configuration of system functionality required to meet system design.
• Write system design documents, including detailed design, technical design, update requirements traceability, and test scenarios, cases. Reengineer system functionality by understanding current capabilities and suggesting process improvements.
• Perform functional and non-functional testing of system in meeting requirements, including unit-testing, SIT, UAT, regression testing, and performance testing.
• Identify & define process and systems’ dependencies while implementing new SAP functionality in the context of ongoing enterprise business and IT initiatives.
• Understand requirements, perform fit-gap analysis, provide estimates, suggest process and technology improvements.
• Write functional design documents detailed at SAP table-field level, and work with developers to explain technical requirements.
• Manage the quarterly upgrade process through evaluation, regression testing, and deployment.
• Able to help with SAP Financial Services solution’s security role definitions, and SAP authorization objects.
• Able to handle entire Solution Delivery Lifecycle on medium to large SAP projects.
• Prefer solution architecture experience demonstrating understanding and handling of Finance business process design and SAP Finance integration experience with other ERP processes (OTC, Rebates, Commissions, Revenue Recognition) and non-SAP business applications.

Education and Experience - What will you bring to the table?

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting or related field.
• 8 years of techno-functional experience on SAP Finance module, including configuration and RICEF development. Prefer SAP certified professionals.
• Prior ABAP development experience preferred. This position requires reverse-engineering business functionality by understanding existing ABAP code, so ability to read code and articulate functionality is highly desirable.
• Curious, bold thinkers who want to grow their careers and be part of a winning team.
• Market shaping individuals who want to transform the agriculture industry to meet the world’s growing need for food.
• Collaborators who thrive in a diverse, inclusive work environment.
• Innovators who bring initiative and fresh ideas that drive our business into the future and make us an industry leader.
• Articulate with verbal and written communication skills in English. Possesses strong presentation skills for a global audience.
• Prior domain or functional experience with Finance or Financial Services environment preferred.
• Ability to research requirements, solutions, evaluate alternative approaches, and present recommended solution in SAP.
• Ability to independently design and configure SAP Finance processes.
• Strong attention to detail and quality/accuracy of deliverables, preferring outcomes over outputs.
• Demonstrated effectiveness and ability to work independently, and drive results with peers, stakeholders, and customers.
• Acts honestly and professionally, ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
• Ability to prioritize and multitask under minimal supervision and respond with flexibility towards tight project deadlines or issues impacting production operations.
• Decisive ability to recognize when to act and when to escalate.
• Experience working with shared services preferred.
• Prior experience working with Big4 SAP system integrators, and on multi-country SAP environments preferred