Senior SAP FICO Consultant (BBBH726783) Singapore
About the Company:
A leading company which provides the whole range of the brand’s products and solutions across the Southeast Asia and Pacific (APAC) region. It has 46 manufacturing sites which hold as a key hub for the company’s global production activities supporting the consumer, solutions and components and devices business.
Job Responsibilities
- Review the National Sales Companies’ financial processes and provide recommendations on process improvements using SAP
- Provides guidance in the definition of solution design practices and standards that link back to SAP best practices.
- Translates business goals into appropriate solutions while assessing feasibility and optimization of the solution.
- Participates in the development of cost/benefit analysis.
- Ability to lead and facilitate design workshops (Blueprint), assessments, planning sessions i.e. demonstrate leadership experience in project management.
- Lead a team of Finance specialists onsite and assist in configuring the solution (must have hands-on configuration experience).
- Make recommendations on implementation of the SAP applications, as well as integration with third party systems
- Ability to perform quality control on the finance portion of an implementation project.
- Conduct work effort estimation and develop work plans.
- Work with stakeholders such as the business and IT clients, as well as the team, both onsite and offshore.
- Demonstrate cross functional leadership i.e. ability to look at the end to end process and understand how it fits together.
- Guide and Mentor other FICO consultants in the SAP team.
- Adhere to project plans, tasks, and deliverable; identifies dependencies and resource requirements.
- Appropriately communicates project status, escalates issues, and manages timelines and action items.
- Develops proof of concepts to demonstrate proposed technical solutions.
- Develops and maintains working relationships with a diverse group of business, functional and technical teams.
Skills/ Experience Required
- 7+ years’ experience in various leadership roles in the planning, design and deployment of SAP’s financial solutions.
- Involved with 3-4 End to End SAP Project Implementation.
- 7+ years’ experience in SAP FI and CO modules - General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cost and Profit Center Accounting (CPA), CO Profitable Analyst (COPA)
- Strong team building skills, with ability to build quick and effective work rapport with distributed team members.
- In-depth finance business experience working on SAP planning, design and implementation of projects
- Understanding of software development life cycle and methodologies
- Experienced in trouble shooting system & data issues
- Mandarin Speaking is Mandatory as selected candidate will work with Customers based in China and other Chinese speaking regions
Education Qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in finance/ Accounting, Master’s Degree is preferred.
- SAP Certification preferred but not mandatory