SAP Functional Analyst III FICO

Summary

The SAP Functional Analyst - FICO / Record-to-Reportwill support the design configuration testing stabilization and ongoing improvement of SAP Finance capabilities within the global S/4HANA landscape. This role is responsible for assigned functional areas within Record-to-Report including finance integration points across adjacent business processes. The analyst will work closely with IT Product Managers business stakeholders support teams architects developers and delivery partners to deliver reliable scalable and business-aligned solutions. The Functional Analyst are directly responsible for the systems or modules that are in their area and must have the ability to communicate technical solutions to non-technical audiences. Successful candidates have a strong functional foundation curiosity collaboration disciplined execution and willingness to learn across integrations and end-to-end process flows.

This role reports onsite to Simplot HQ (Boise ID).

Key Responsibilities

• Advise and participate in configuration in your process area
• Work with other team members to ensure that a global process is followed
• Represent your process area in design and build sessions and solutioning
• Provide production support for assigned capabilities including incident triage root cause analysis defect resolution service request fulfillment enhancement analysis and knowledge management.
• Support testing activities including unit testing integration testing regression testing business simulation user acceptance testing and automated test readiness where applicable.
• Communicate solution options risks dependencies and tradeoffs in a clear and practical manner for both technical and business audiences.
• Analyze business requirements document functional designs and collaborate with developers integration teams QA security data and reporting resources to deliver complete solutions.
• Utilize agile methodologies for continuous delivery of solutions. Rapid deployment and validation of solutions components is a must.
• Build working knowledge of integration touchpoints across Source-to-Pay Quote-to-Cash Make-to-Deploy Forecast-to-Schedule reporting/analytics tax treasury and related enterprise platforms.

Typical Education

Bachelors Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4 year college or university

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 3 Years of proven experience as an SAP Functional Analyst or IT Analyst in relation to SAP FICO.
• Working knowledge of the new Fiori tools is preferred and S/4HANA environment is helpful ().
• Understanding of various integration patterns between SAP products and non-SAP Products and when to utilize these patterns when enabling a business process is preferred.
• Understanding of the development lifecycle utilization of SAP Solution Manager and how it will be utilized in a Dev/Ops environment is preferred.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban is preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting analytical thinking verbal communication and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in an agile or product delivery environment including backlog refinement sprint planning demos and iterative delivery practices.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across business technical support QA data security and vendor teams.
• Commitment to standards documentation quality auditability knowledge sharing and sustainable support practices.
• Knowledge of SAP S4 HANA Universal Journal (ACDOCA) New General Ledger Ledgers and Extension Ledgers Parallel Accounting (US GAAP IFRS Local GAAP) Profit Center Accounting Segment Reporting Real-time integration between FI and CO Group Reporting and Financial Consolidation

Preferred Qualifications

• Extra Consideration will be given to those candidates with experience in Treasury Tax OpenText VIM Central Finance and ABAP
• Ability to write functional specs and design custom objects for business specific requirements and work with development teams.
• Overall working knowledge of various ecosystems that connect with SAP S4 HANA business Suite
• Knowledge of SAP Accounts Payable processes including vendor invoice management payment processing withholding tax duplicate invoice prevention exception handling and integration with OpenText VIM. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of Treasury and Cash Management processes including bank account management electronic bank statement processing cash positioning liquidity planning payment approvals and interfaces with banking platforms. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Knowledge of SAP Tax configuration and processes including indirect tax (VAT/GST) withholding tax sales and use tax determination tax reporting requirements and integration with third-party tax engines. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of finance controls and compliance requirements associated with vendor payments tax reporting bank reconciliations segregation of duties and audit support. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes and key finance integration points between Materials Management (MM) Accounts Payable OpenText VIM Treasury Tax and General Ledger accounting. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Knowledge of automatic account determination financial posting logic document splitting parallel ledgers and financial impact resulting from upstream procurement logistics and inventory transactions. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of intercompany accounting processes intercompany vendor transactions cross-company payments and the resulting impacts to financial consolidation and reporting. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of SAP Central Finance architecture including source-to-target data replication financial document harmonization master data governance mapping frameworks and financial reporting consolidation. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Knowledge of Central Finance integration touchpoints across SAP ECC SAP S/4HANA non-SAP ERP systems SLT replication AIF monitoring and financial reconciliation processes. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of migration and transformation concepts related to finance process standardization chart of accounts harmonization business partner adoption and enterprise reporting requirements. (Nice to have but not mandatory)