The SAP FI-CO Specialist will collaborate with business stakeholders, cross-functional teams, external project consultants and COE team members to design, build, test, and deploy solutions in SAP S4 HANA within FI and CO modules. This role will also have a key responsibility in providing the support for day-to-day support operations, month-end, and year-end closing activities. The ideal candidate should have good listening skills, pro-active, team player and have the ability work with cross-functional teams and the business stakeholders.
Job Details
- Accountable for design and implementation of SAP S/4 HANA capabilities supporting Finance functions in Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payables and General Ledger.
- Implement end-to-end solution design, build, testing, deployment and support of outgoing payments for different payment types and integration with Treasury system.
- Responsible for solution design, build, testing, deployment for the electronic incoming payments, lock box and credit card payments.
- Provide support with customer statements, electronic bank statements and applying the cash.
- Support integration issues with Paymetric for credit card payments
- Manage Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) process including Credit management, collections and Dispute management.
- Actively engage with business, SAP COE leader, cross-functional teams, external consultants to provide best fit technical solutions while aligning to global template solution.
- Actively support intercompany automation, intercompany AR/AP matching process, IDocs and resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Responsible for managing General Ledger support for all processes including journal entry processing, accruals, recurring entries, exchange rates and foreign currency revaluation.
- Provide support for Analysis for Office report.
- Perform FIT/GAP analysis and write functional specifications for RICEFW.
- Support issues Revenue Account Recognition (RAR) solution and implement enhancements as the business need arise.
- Responsible for maintenance of tax procedures, tax configuration, tax calculation and tax reporting.
Job Responsibilities
- Accountable for the implementation of end-to-end solution for withholding tax calculation and reporting solutions
- Provide support for managing account determination for integration with order-to-cash and source-to-procure processes.
- Support month-end and year-end activities and resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Help Perform risk assessments of enterprise apps and work closely with project teams on building/configuring applications security.
- Develop User Documentation in collaboration with Business Team and external consultants.
- Support SAP COE in testing and validation efforts related to Maintenance Patches, Version Upgrades and integration on New Bolt-on Applications from time to time as required.
- Monitor and respond to help desk tickets in a timely manner, and work with business to understand the issue, and provide the solution.
- Provide functional advisory support to ad hoc SAP/Non-SAP led initiatives in other subsidiaries to support managerial decision making.
- Drive the Functional Integration of all E2E processes enabled by SAP S/4HANA to ensure proper design, development, testing and the cutover activities.
- Work with other Process Team(s) in development and execution of the test scripts in the integration testing cycles and regression testing.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA)
- Knowledge of Cost center accounting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Project systems and Product Costing (CO-PC).
- Knowledge of Blackline, SAP Concur, and Paymetric integration.
- Certification in S/4 HANA
- Knowledge of Analysis for Office (AFO)
- Good understanding of Order-to-cash business process and source-to-pay process and the integration with FI/CO.
- Knowledge of Revenue Recognition, Revenue Accounting, US GAAP, IFRS
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work on projects with cross functional teams, external resources, and PMO.
- Manage business users independently, be self-motivated, proactive and a team member.
- Ability to embrace new technologies and adopt to an evolving environment.
- Ability to adopt flexible schedule to meet multiple time-zones for meetings with peers and stakeholders.
Qualifications/Background Experiences
- Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Finance or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 6 years of experience with Process Design, Deployment and/or support experience utilizing and configuring the SAP FICO module with a heavy focus in General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Inter/intra company processes, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables and Tax.
- Experience in FSCM Credit, Collections, Dispute management and BCM required.
- Experience with banking and Cash Management/Treasury required.
- Experience with BCM (Business Communication Management) and BRF (Business Rules Framework) required.
- Experience with payment approval process required.
- Experience working with SAP Tax solution, and ONESOURCE tax determination preferred/
- Experience in Medical Device / Life Sciences Industry preferred.