Consultant - SAP CFIN Financial Rollout Process Area Lead

Job Description :

'The following for the respective competencies of the Process Area (O2C, P2P, P2S, B2P, .........):

- Executing Bids and Presales (Scope, Solution, Demos, Effort Estimation, USP, ....)

- Executing Fit-Gap Analysis and Business Process Blueprinting

- Executing initiatives to build competency in global templates

- Leading/Executing Training and Knowledge sharing

- Executing Demo Content Creation and Demos

- Executing initiatives to build system-based and non-system-based accelerators for rollouts and implementations

- Executing competency building in new areas e.g. POCs

- Creating sales collaterals

- Executing Innovation projects

- Executing Study and concept projects

- Troubleshooting e.g. with regard to technical issues/process issues faced by customers

- Spot consulting

- Executing realisation activities in a rollout/implementation project e.g. configuration, functional specifications for developments, data cleansing, data migration, testing, training, cutover, support for authorisations, support for OCM

Required :

- Extensive understanding of SAP FI processes and technology Background in a distributed environment (min +5 years)

- Very good Customizing knowledge in FI

- At least Basic Development skills (read Code) and general Development Know How including debugger know-how

- SAP Solution Manager handling

- Fluent in English

- Good communication and analysis skills.

- Ability to work in teams and display good interpersonal skills.

- Problem Solver mentality and self management / organizing skills

- Extensive SAP FI and CO (COPA / PCA) knowledge. (min +5 years) including NewGL and DocSplit

- Experience in working under SAP R/3 and S4

- Good understanding of cFIN (at least one implementation)

- Good understanding of general SAP Architecture, Interface technologies (IDOC, SLT, RFC), authorizations and other Modules like SD, MM

- ABAP deep debugger know how

- End 2 End problem solving skills

Tasks

- Coordination & Communication

- Timely communication of pre-requisites and deadlines with customer about timeline and needed information

- Alignment with other teams (Master Data, Authorizations, TDM, Tables)

- Requesting of OSS note implementation if needed

- Information about needed adaptions of current developments/settings due to findings

- In case of concept changes communication with customer with detailed description of need, investigation and pre-thought solution

- In case of technical changes communication with tech-team

- For each needed adaption a track & release task should be created with a technical 'solution approach' (if possible)

- Development and Implementation

- Coordination of central finance interface connections from R3 vertical to S/4 horizontal system (interfaces not related to central finance e.g. payment provider, APM are not in scope)

- Cross-checking of data mappings in the system

- Technical setup / implementation of central finance (including replication etc.) between R3 to S/4

- Customizing including source system

- Data Load

- Data extract

- Simulation

- Posting

- Implementation or Coordination of Implementation

- Full Lifecycle responsibility

- Documentation & Error Handling

- Documentation of tasks (for reproduction of actions and timing)

- Maintenance of cutover plan

- Error monitoring / handling of interface and documentation of issues

- Defect handling of technical errors

- Pre-Investigation for technical errors to handover to Tech-Team

- Solving of functional errors and handover to defined User Dept. coordinators

- Follow-up of functional errors

- Documentation of errors and solutions including solution path

- Creation of 3rd and 2nd level documentation

- Creation of SAP Incidents, tracking of SAP Incidents and implementation of OSS Notes

Qualifications

CA, ICWA or MBA Finance

Additional information : 5 to 15 Yrs of SAP exp

1 project in SAP CFIN (Implementation)

S/4 HANA implementations - 2

ECC implementations - 3 or more (of which at least 1 is a global template rollout project)