What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst - Powerplan position at Varite?
Department Overview
Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments that collaborate effectively to deliver high-quality technology solutions. The SAP Electric Ops Work Management Delivery organization provides SAP IT services to the Electric line of business. The organization is responsible for strategic technology planning, roadmap development, solution design, solution delivery, and solution support.
Position Summary
The role IT SAP Functional Analyst PowerPlan is to configure, implement, maintain, and upgrade PowerPlan all modules.
The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents, and performs PowerPlan system configuration and localization to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations. This role is viewed as an integral strategic partner and business liaison in technology decisions and provides ongoing PowerPlan system support. This includes analyzing business requirements and developing integrated IT and complex business solutions.
Client is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.
This new teammate needs to be able come to Company's Oakland headquarters 3 days a week, since all project team is here in person Tuesday to Thursday.
Responsibilities
Business Support and Consulting :
Define standard processes in PowerPlan and drive adaptation in Finance and Tax areas.
Analyze end-to-end complex business processes across all modules within PowerPlan.
Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new PowerPlan capabilities.
Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross- organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.
Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.
Functional Analysis :
Automate / optimize PowerPlan system
Map business requirements to SAP S4 system capabilities and configure to meet requirements
Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution
Perform PowerPlan configuration and do quality review and testing activities
Qualifications
Minimum :
10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology
8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in PowerPlan system
Desired :
Familiarity with CR, PM, Asset / ARO, Depr modules and their data flow
Project creation, estimating, approval
Collecting and classifying charges (derivations and true-up)
In-service and completion of work orders
PowerTax and Tax Repairs
Creating checks and balances to prevent data issues in automated processes
Lease Accounting Module
- if PGE uses PowerPlan)
Month-End Close Processes
PowerPlan Integration Tools
SDLC and Integration Best Practices / ETL processes
Additional Desired :
S4HANA ERP Implementation and Upgrades
Functional Skills
GAAP vs. FERC Accounting Concepts
Non-Technical Skills
