SAP FICO Specialist

Job Summary

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/Responsibilities

• 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 (continued)

• 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.