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Description

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Location: Home Office option with low travel to Boston (as needed - less than 10%)

Summary

This resource will serve as part of SAP S4/HANA Finance IT BA team. This role will join the SAP IT Business Partner team and focus on Group Reporting, Intercompany, AR, and AP configuration and WF set-up. This role will act as an intermediary between the financial business and technical community and translate business requirements into documentation and conceptual design from which applications and solutions are developed.

This role will play a key role in expanding Global portfolio of assets and acquisitions and will play a key role in new integration set-up in a SOX and GXP- compliant environment.

Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• Facilitate the implementation and support of SAP RTR Solution with heavy focus on AR, AP, Inter Company and Group Reporting
• Perform detailed analysis of Finance and Controlling business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions; identify, interpret, validate and document company requirements.
• Provide support to finance staff on defining and documenting system processes, data flow, controls and interfaces for financial information systems. Provide analytical and technical support to team members and end users
• Facilitate workshops to collect business requirements.
• Map client business requirements, processes, and objectives; develops necessary product modifications to satisfy enterprise-wide needs.
• Experience in Group Structure management, intercompany elimination, Consolidation of Investment, Good will calculation, & Matrix consolidation process
• Deep working knowledge in consolidation methods - Equity Method, purchase method and minority interest calculation
• Experience in configuring consolidation units, Group hierarchy, Map FS items to GL accounts & defining master data consolidation fields
• Experience in Data Collection & data monitoring process - Release from Universal Journal, Flexible Upload of Reported Financial Data, or Published APIs from Other SAP or Customer applications
• Experience in currency translation, manual adjustments, Versioning, Simulation process
• Well-versed in Cashflow, Balance sheet, Income statement reporting, exchange rate type & exchange rate indicators.
• Local & Group close experience in S/4HANA, configuring flexible rules for data validation& Manual Top-up Adjustment for Elimination wherever needed
• Work experience in configuring various document types, posting level, automatic reversal, Working knowledge in SAC Reporting
• Familiar with U.S.GAAP & IFRS standards & reporting.
• Proactively identify and propose business process and/or system enhancements
• Maintain and enhance workflows across respective functional area
• Act as a liaison between the business functions and the technical team.
• Provide ad-hoc training and user support as required
• Continually assess the impact of emerging SAP technologies against strategic business needs and interpret business value for the IT management.
• Develop productive relationships with business across the organization to influence how SAP Finance applications can enable new sources of value.
• Execute methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall) and practices for the application life cycle management in line with best practice and practical experience of continuous improvement.
• Conducting workshops for gathering requirements, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and client training
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a cross-divisional and cross-functional environment.
• Ability to work independently, effectively coordinating multiple priorities in a dynamic and changing environment and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Update and maintain all SAP/WRICEF functional documentation
• Conduct Unit tests, Integration tests, and Regression tests
• Good understanding of Pharma guidelines including GAMP, 21 CFR Part 11 etc..
• Participate in Qtrly, Semi-annual, and yearly SOX/ITGC audit tasks
• Effectively evaluate and shift priorities appropriately based on multiple considerations and changing demands

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a full cycle implementation as well as in support projects. • Minimum of 5 years designing and configuring I/C, Group Reporting, AR & AP in SAP S4/HANA Cloud instance and SAC application.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple deliverables and projects at the same time
• Understanding of accounting business processes
• Ability to understand business processes from a customer perspective
• Ability to work in a team environment, effectively interacting with others
• Must be results oriented, and demonstrate a can-do attitude - adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness
• Experience leading SAP teams at a functional level including the creation of architecture standards, reference architectures and data models.
• Experience on interfaces with both SAP and non SAP systems
• Must be familiar with testing, deployment, and release management.
• Experience in S4/HANA Master and Transaction Data including Finance Master Data (COA, Bank Master, Cost center, profit center, Internal Order, Fixed Assets, Project WBS), SAC Planning Data, Material Master, Vendor Master, Condition Master (Price), Customer (MM, Procurement, SD, PP) a plus
• Client stakeholder management experience