SAP FICO Business Analyst (West)

• Responsible to provide solutions for business needs & support the day-to-day operations; by ensuring business strategy and operational technology needs are shaped and captured appropriately within the enterprise. Then transforming that areas strategic demands into a feasible set of projects, against resistance to maintain the status quo.

• Understands that any given problem may have many good answers, therefore must know how to ask good questions that compel further discussion, research, collaboration and innovation.
• Empathize with end users in their needs while also able to manage and align business requirements and IT goals.
• Is an effective change agent of innovation.

• Liaise with key users and Business Process Owners (BPO) to identify pain points and problem areas that require IT solution, then capture specific requirements, propose cost effective solution and implement.
• Support and / or challenge proposals in line with ROI, to ensure that projects or changes to status quo will deliver benefits prior to entering the design and development phase.
• Responsible for managing projects and liaising with external solution providers to deliver solutions in accordance to REC SDLC guidelines.
• Prepare and / or maintain up to date business process flows, configuration documents, technical / functional specifications, test scenario / case creation, conduct user acceptance testing & roll-out solutions.
• Ensure day-to-day activities, projects / change requests are done in compliance to IT Control (Policies & Procedures).
• Resolve day-to-day business application operational issues / requests within SLA.
• Support month end closing activities, plus proactively monitor & take actions to avoid wrong postings, wherever applicable.
• Establish relationships with end users and other IT members.
• Provide training to end users & other IT BA team members.

• Be responsible for project planning, execution, monitoring and control to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget.
• Is attentive to detail and has good analytical skills to understand a wide net of interdependencies to be able to identify, clearly articulate, and proactively mitigate project / change risks.

• Have excellent written, visual and verbal communication skills to make persuasive arguments and clearly communicate complex technical concepts to a business audience, and business/commercial concepts to a technical audience.
• Effectively communicates relevant project information to stakeholders and can effectively set and manage expectations, and is able to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully so that issues are resolved and/or defused in a timely fashion.

• Degree in Computer Science or business with experience in SAP FICO Product Costing (CO-PC) with at least 2-3 years SAP FICO experience in implementation project or support role
• Preferably at least one full project implementation cycle experience in SAP Finance & Project System modules in a manufacturing environment.
• Project rollout experience with country specific localizations.
• Well developed understanding and working experience on SAP FICO modules such as General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Taxation, Consolidation, Special Purpose Ledger, Cost element / Cost center / Profit Center Accounting, Internal orders, Product Cost controlling, Profitability Analysis areas.
• Knowledge on FICO integration with MM, PP, PM and SD modules.
• Should be fluent with business processes associated with the use of SAP and comfortable with product costing, manufacturing business terms and concepts.
• Experience in Business process modeling, re-engineering, optimization.
• Experience in Windows Environment, Visio, Power Bi, and other document management tools
• Experience in LSMW, ABAP Query, ALV Reports , iDocs
• Integration experiences with other legacy or 3rd party systems.
• Working experience on Hyperion (HFM), Readsoft & reporting platforms like Power Bi an advantage.
• Experience in operating ERP / Business Applications with integration to MES systems in a 24x7x365 manufacturing environment an advantage.

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