Job Title: SAP FS-CD Functional Consultant
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months (Possible Extension)
Job Description:
Required Skills:
- Leverage Finance expertise, as well as SAP techno-functional skills and experience and industry knowledge to identify complex client issues and build long-term business relationships with key executives through engagement delivery
- Intelligently guide customers through their financial processes and best practices related to account reconciliations and mass journal posting templates
- Lead the Business Process and Solution Architecture design sessions; Create functional specifications for development requirements
- Lead and manage team(s) where relevant; can understand the end-goals and delegate tasks to successfully meet deliverables on time & within scope
- Perform initial setup, prototype, configuration, and testing to support the design sessions and to fulfill the customer's business requirements
- Design and document the required configurations for the SAP FS-CD solution(s) per the blueprint, including documenting test results, and support go-live efforts
- Recommend best practices for configuring SAP FS-CD considering the overall architecture to achieve integration, high performance and stability
- Work closely with end users to design the proper SAP FS-CD solution(s) to support defined business processes and business requirements
- Actively participate in training and knowledge transfer sessions to enable end users to understand SAP FS-CD
- Provide support for applicants to include problem identification, reporting, tracking analysis and resolution
- Provide continuous feedback on project status and offer constructive options to ensure project continues to meet original expectations
- Utilize technical and industry knowledge to identify complex client issues and build long-term business relationships with key executives through engagement delivery, as well as networking in professional organizations
- Provide continuous feedback on project status and offer constructive options to ensure project continues to meet original expectations
- Contribute thought leadership to the development and growth of our IBM brand and intellectual capital by, among others: Publishing articles, white papers, and/or speaking at select domestic and/or global SAP conferences
- Participate in sales and pre-sales activities for IBM Company as they pertain to SAP FS-CD and/or other related fields, including networking
- Continuously demonstrate and deliver strong and highly professional customer service commitment.
Required Professional and Technical Expertise:
- At least 7 years of experience in SAP Finance with financial services expertise i.e. SAP Bank Analyzer, SAP Insurance Analyzer, or other relevant predecessor products to FPSL
- At least 7 years of hands-on business experience in SAP Finance with financial services expertise, namely SAP Bank Analyzer, SAP Insurance Analyzer
- At least 5 end-to-end implementations from project preparation to go-live in SAP Finance with financial services with hands-on experience in Configuring Collection and Disbursement process
- At least 4 years of expertise in SAP FS-CD processes and functionality with demonstrated experience in process implementation and optimization in the areas of Billing and Disbursement using SAP FS-CD
- At least 4 years of knowledge in SAP ABAP with ODATA
- At least 5 years work experience in a consulting firm
- At least 5 years of solid business process knowledge and business process blue printing experience
- At least 4 years of experience selling finance transformation programs, including strategic alignment with executives, solution development, and closing business
- Knowledge of SAP ERP and latest SAP Financial tools a must
- Must have a Financial Services and/or an Accounting background for SAP FS-CD