SAP Revenue Accounting Expert Business Process Analyst

DescriptionAs a Business Process Analyst, you’ll partner with stakeholders and end users to gather, analyze and document requirements to enable translation into technical specifications. You’ll demonstrate your excellent communication and project management skills as a solution architect for the sales and distribution functional area. As part of this exciting and challenging role, you’ll have the opportunity to travel globally, while reporting to the Manager of Business Process, Sales and Distribution (SD).

Responsibilities:

• Understand advanced, integrated business processes; identify and recognize global integration consequences.
• Partner with key users to determine application development requirements, acting as the liaison between the IT Organization and the end users to ensure requirements and progress are communicated accurately.
• Comprehend and perform complex configuration tasks and testing in the areas of Sales and Distribution; resolve complex user reported issues in a timely manner.
• Successfully handle multiple projects, complete them on time, on budget and exceed customer expectations.
• Partner with the other Business Process functional teams, Application Development teams, and Technology Services teams as well as the end users, to analyze, design, develop, modify, test, and implement software solutions and applications to satisfy the company's business requirements.
• Research the SAP system, OSS, ASUG, and other resources for solutions to business requirements and the implementation of new business process improvements. Research new technologies and functionality, make recommendations on their use at company.
• Interact with engineering & business teams to gather & analyze requirements for the Subscription and Monetization projects.
• Create design specifications for programs in all aspects of SAP’s proprietary ABAP/4 programming language. Complete documentation of software solutions, SAP configuration and program modifications according to departmental standards.

Special knowledge, skills and abilities required:

• Extensive knowledge in the SAP SD Module and fluent in the order to cash process; including (but not limited to) sales order processing, delivery processing, pricing, invoicing, cross-company sales process.
• Working knowledge of the functionality of all the other core SAP modules (FI, CO, MM, PP) and integration points. Working knowledge of the ABAP Workbench.
• Strong ability to be able to take user requirements, design appropriate solutions and carry them through implementation including integration testing and end user training.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills with the ability to sell concepts and ideas to a wide range of audience.
• End-to- end configuration and customization knowledge in the areas of: Contract & Order processing, Invoicing process, and Billing plans.
• Working knowledge of the upstream and downstream modules/systems in Order & Contract processing, Account Receivable processes.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability of navigating through at least 2 full life cycle implementations of SAP ECC.
• Strong ability to recognize, respect and adapt to cultural differences, as SAP is used on a global level.
• Willingness to travel approximately 10%-20% (mostly international) for global projects (kick off, design, testing, end user training, implementation), conferences etc.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of the SAP Service and Warranty functions, Project Systems, Solution Manager, ASAP methodology and SAP Best Practices are a major plus.
• Knowledge in SAP revenue recognition engine RAR exposure to ASC 606 and ASC 842 revenue standards will be an advantage.

Education and experience required:

• This position is available at two different career levels based upon experience:

• Level two: 3 years IT or related business process experience and 2 years SAP configuration experience in the SD modules

• Level three: 5 years IT or related Sales and Distribution business process experience and 5 years SAP configuration experience in SD modules.
• Experience in a Service based monetization models, subscription models and consumption models.

To summarize, to be considered for this role, you will need to have:

• Experience working with the financial modules within SAP.
• Expert knowledge and experience of SAP BRIM or any other similar subscription based model.
• Experience with RAR
• Knowledge of accounting rules - ASC 606 and ASC 842.