SAP Functional Fico Consultant

**Specific Technical / Functional skills**
- Conduct SAP Module Configuration
- Analyse and solve SAP Module issues
- Ensure proper documentation (Design, Technical documents)
- Analyse and scope End-user authorisation roles
- Conduct Unit tests, Integration tests and System Integration security tests
- Proactively propose solutions to improve the support of (new) business processes
- Support the functional team with issues and provide a solutions-based approach

**Soft Skills**
- Problem solving capabilities
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to work interdependently as well as independently and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users
- Strong ability to understand and interpret business needs and requirements with an aptitude to move concepts through to proposal and successful implementation

**Specific Technical / Functional skills**
- SAP FI/CO (essential)
- General Ledger
- Asset Accounting
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Banking
- Project Systems
- Controlling (including Profitability Analysis)
- SAP Materials Management (Advantageous)
- SAP Solution Manager
- Interface Technologies (IDoc, RFC's and Web Services)

**Soft Skills**
- Strong presentation skills
- Above-board work ethics
- Flexibility to take up different tasks in the project
- Ability and willingness to coach and give training to fellow colleagues and users when required
- Willing and able to travel internationally

**Additional Requirements**
- Flexibility to take up different tasks in the feature team
- Flexibility to work after hours if needed
- German Speaking (Advantageous)
- DEVOPS (Advantageous)
- Confluence and Jira (Advantageous)

**WHICH QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE DO WE NEED FOR THE ROLE?**
- Relevant IT / Business Degree
- 5+ years’ experience

**WHAT WILL BE YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES?**

**The Team**
- Become part of our product “International Finance Template” (IFT)
- The IFT Template Factory is a cross-department virtual organization to assure the template quality, industrialize changes and optimize collaboration on the IFT platform and is an umbrella function including Business (Processes & Standards), Design Management, Build Management
- To fulfil the delivery tasks, the Template Factory cooperates closely with Release Management, Platform Management, and Test Management.
- The team currently consists of approx. 20 members (Functional Consultants, Developers, Test Manager, Operations Responsible, Build Manager, Design Manager, Agile Master)

**General Role Tasks**
- Understand the business requirements, preparing AS-IS, and TO-BE documents and get sign-off from users for Business Blueprint document
- Understands Workflow (Advantageous)
- Preparation of testing documents and perform internal testing
- Integration testing with other modules
- Write Specifications and interact with developers.
- Validate and document requirements against Template to be presented to headquarter for decision
- Align with Functional Consultants and Developers of the IFT team and the maintenance team
- Understand interfaces, IDOC and RFC's processing
- Preparing User manuals and conducting training to business process owners
- Go-live preparation and post Go-live support (could be on weekends, late evenings)
- Assisting in troubleshooting issues for the system and providing support
- Executing the required changes through configuration
- Carrying out regression testing
- User interface transactional solutions

**IFT Specific Role Tasks/Requirements**
- Planning: Assist user departments in designing system requirement/proposal documentation based on business processes
- Designing Responsibilities in projects
- Ensure that all processes have been investigated / considered in obtaining the specifications of the user requirements
- Review business requirements and propose and create system design, evaluate alternatives
- Review and present proposed system design / solution to IT Project Manager / Leader and User Management or System owner / Business owner for IFT
- Design systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements (Template solution)
- Ensure that the following steps in the Designing Cycle are executed

1. Preparation of system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards)

2. Preparation of user and operation manual

3. Creation of Test Cases

4. User training (Key users)

5. System testing/parallel runs

6. System implementation (transition into line)

7. System checks/quality assurance

8. User sign-off
- Time estimating
- Time estimates must be adhered to according to projects
- Estimated completion time to be agreed upon by Consultant, Project Manager and User Organisation
- Principal accountabilities
- Ensure that the timings set by the Project Manager are achieved
- Ensure user satisfactio