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 S4 HANA, 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