Role SAP FICO Consultant (Contract Period: 12 months)
Role Introduction - This role is responsible for managing and supporting business needs for finance budgeting and other finance functions including accounting, cost controlling and good to have finance consolidation knowledge.
- Analysis on business requirements, provide efficient and state of art solutions to support the Client's finance and its subsidiaries.
- Analysis on SAP systems and identifying functional and technical areas for improvement, optimization, and alignment with business requirements.
- Plan, coordinate and configure SAP system enhancements according to business requirements.
- Drive the change from requirement gathering to solution transformation and completion.
Key Responsibilities - Cross-team collaboration with PVT team, project managers, business analysts, existing support team.
- Accountable to oversee package-based business solutions holistically to ensure seamless integration with other application components
- Must have over 10 years of Experience in SAP domain
- Must have worked as consultant in SAP Implementation/Support projects
- Must have a strong background of Solution Design, Review and Implementation
- Gather, understand and synthesize documentation available from vendors, SMEs, systems, product managers and business analysts to be able to extract right information and transform it into different architectural diagrams or viewpoints
- Strong knowledge of SAP Finance solutions, including SAP S4HANA, SAP Technical Area
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business impacts and make decisions.
- Discuss data requirements with partners, provide visualizations, and drive continuous improvement.
- Cross-team collaboration with application and infrastructure project teams to focus on high level designs and conceptual designs for project delivery.
- Analyse enterprise business context (trends and business strategy)
- Drive/Participate in the complete software development life cycle together with in-house and external resources
- Drive to develop and analyse solution options based on business demand, Enterprise Architecture and balanced comparison of functional capabilities, non-functional capabilities, risk, cost and benefits
- Drive to provide consultancy on performance optimization for new and existing solutions, in particular during production fire-fighting situations.
- Keep abreast of the latest trends in technology, ensure timely exploration and proactively communicate towards the introduction of relevant / key emerging technologies.
- Cross-team collaboration with the Technology & Architecture team to drive business and technology innovation to achieve corporate strategic plans and objectives.
- Must have knowledge of different Finance business processes e.g. month-end, year-end, intercompany reconciliation
- Must have knowledge on SAP FICO, its integrations between different modules and interface integration with non SAP systems.
- Good to have knowledge on SAP Treasury Management and Cash Management
Requirements - Cantonese speaker is a must.
- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines
- Minimum 10 years of SAP FICO experience with at least 5 years hands-on project solution experience in large scale strategic programs or projects
- Exposure to multinational companies, diverse technologies and processing environment
- Significant practical experience or good understanding of finance solution
- Ability to think conceptually and simplify complex problems through abstraction
- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders up to the executive level
- Ability to translate business needs into solution and able to deliver
- Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems
- Understanding of application development methodologies, object-oriented analysis and design, or client/server systems
- Significant knowledge of financial models and budgeting
- Passion and ability to learn new technologies