Senior Analyst SAP FICO Configuration

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Position Highlights:

Empower is currently recruiting a Sr. SAP FI/CO Configuration Analyst for SAP Finance team. Viewed as a proficient in SAP system implementation and production support, this position presents an opportunity to an experienced SAP FI/CO professional to take the next steps in their career. As part of our established SAP team, under general direction the successful candidate will design, document, implement and support various complex SAP applications.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Gathers documents and analyzes system and business requirements for moderately complex SAP applications. Prepares detailed specifications from which new applications and system enhancements will be written.
• Analyzes system and business needs to effectively map business processes to SAP application modules.
• Configures and customizes moderately complex SAP application modules.
• Tests moderately complex SAP application modules (Unit, Functional, Integration, UAT, Performance testing). Troubleshoots problems and recommends modifications to applications.
• Completes moderately complex project tasks within defined milestones. Makes recommendations for project resource requirements to project managers and/or systems leadership. Maintains requirements documentation, project tracking, and key stakeholder reporting metrics. Will lead and or direct projects of medium to large scale/complexity.
• Will train and mentor less experienced staff. Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Resolve Production Support issues and will be assigned to on-call support rotation. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Business or equivalent experience. 
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Able to drive meetings with business, stakeholders and leadership, regarding SAP Solutions, planning or to address medium to high impact issues.  
• Must have SAP FI-CO analyst experience for a minimum of 7 years. This experience must include hands-on configurations, new enhancements, and break-fix support for FI-CO modules.
• Must have proficiency in FI-CO modules: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Controlling (Cost Center, Profit Center Accounting), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Fixed Asset (FA), Tax accounting (including withholding tax), integration between FI and MM.
• Must have recent experience Sets and Hierarchies development.
• Nice to have experience of Special purpose ledger (SPL), Report Painter, Report writer, CIG integration between Ariba and ECC, and Concur.
• Nice to have prior experience on ALE, RFC, API webservice integration and Service Now.
• Should be comfortable performing Project Management activities (i.e. ROM and Milestone timelines and communications) and with utilization of Waterfall as well as Agile methodology for deliverables assigned. 
• Must have robust functional knowledge of system integration with third party applications/add-on applications.
• Hands on experience in S4 conversion project is a plus.

       Need prior experience as end user:

      SAP ChaRM, SAP BI, JIRA, HP ALM, Service Now.

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.