Sr. SAP OTC Architect Aerospace & Dfence

Role: Sr. SAP OTC Architect with A&D

Location: Irving, TX 50 % onsite

Duration: 11 Months

Description:

MUST HAVE

A&D / discrete manufacturing experience - A&D does not equal Public Sector

Experience as a Workstream/Team Lead involving a US deployment of an SAP S/4HANA global design with localization in US geography

Experience as an Order to Cash work stream lead for a Commercial Aerospace & Defense Manufacturer at Senior Consultant level is required

Specific SAP module configuration and deployment experience: - Specific SAP modules required: Lead Management, Master Data in the Lead to Management areas, Operational Contract Management, Sales & Distribution (SD), Project Systems (PS), Resource Related Billing (cost collection & billing WBS elements), Proposals, Contract Management (government & commercial) and Contract Line Items (CLINs) and Pricing Conditions - must be familiar with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR) - must be experienced with these modules (SD, PS related Sales Order Processing, Contract Lifecycle Management) in a complex OEM Aviation, Aerospace & Defense manufacturer (preferred), although experience in Automotive or Industrial Products (e.g., Caterpillar, John Deere, etc.) is also applicable - Ability to define, understand and correlate Customer transformation North Stars in the overall design of the Order to Cash value stream; - Experience leading Customers, System Integrators, and SAP, team members towards a Standard Aerospace Ecosystem in the Order to Cash area - Experience guiding the preparation and release of the required support workshops documentation to ensure the success of engaging and explaining to the business functional experts the SAP S/4HANA best practices and Customer Industry processes - Expertise in managing the SAP FIORI standard applications - Experience in third-party aerospace SAP S/4HANA bolt-ons (Dassian, iCertis) - Order to Cash manages the customer-facing side of the supply chain, including the end-to-end processes covering the receipt of requests for proposals, preparation of proposals and pricing, fact-finding and contract negotiations, cost management, legal contract management and automation, operational contract management, for defense, government and private contracts, flow down management, sales order management, invoice management and accounts receivables

Familiarity with SAP Roadmap for respective O2C work stream and ability to define a target end-state and transitional plan within context of customer project portfolio o Maintain a forward-looking vision for how customer drives the most value from their existing investment in SAP software o Identify relevant blind spots and provide targeted PoV/recommendations to mitigate - this includes addressing impact of items on SAP s simplification list

Responsibilities of Role:

Collaborate in the development and articulation of strong value propositions for transformational initiatives/innovations - from process SME and S/4HANA perspectives

Apply strong knowledge of the business processes for design, development and testing S/4HANA functions associated with business operations

Facilitate Explore workshops or post explore get back to standard workshops (clean - core) (solution architecting, requirements gathering) with business managers, client staff, and end-users to determine business and functional requirements

Review and/or perform design and configuration of SAP S/4HANA systems to meet client business requirements

Ability to create business process procedures (BPPs), swim lane process flows, functional specifications, configuration guides and testing scripts

Ability to assess customer's business processes and identify opportunities for leveraging S/4HANA where they are not, identifying missed innovations and standard functionality they are not taking advantage of

Assist Data Stewards with Master Data transformation and load from legacy system to S/4HANA