About the role
As the R2A GL/Closing (IT) Functional Consultant, you are responsible for understanding company’s business processes and information needs, to identify, propose and drive solution options that support the business needs within the ASPIRE Global Template deployment project.
Duties & Accountabilities
- The Functional Consultant takes accountability for project success.
- Experience in SAP General Ledger Accounting, Month-end Closing, Smartclose tool.
- Responsible to deliver IT and Business deliverables in projects.
- Supports development of To-Be processes based on user requirements within the General Accounting R2A stream.
- Supports during scoping and develops functional specifications & confirms developments.
- Configures system and documents configuration according to project standards.
- Identifies and escalates configuration related conflicts with different projects in the same SAP environment and other used systems / tool.
- Supports creation test specification and preparation of test data (prepare testing environment).
- Supports data migration and performs cut-over.
- Provides country / site-specific system know-how depending on project deployment.
Requirements - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (Computer Sciences, Software Engineering, Mathematical, Information Systems) or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 8 years of SAP experience.
- Good understanding and application of tools, principles, concepts, and techniques related to requirements, data, usability and process analysis.
- Has in depth knowledge of General Accounting business processes and understands cross
functional/integration process flow, data and the dependencies. - Understands in depth architectural framework for finance domain and the connected portfolios/interfaces.
- Good understanding of SolMan ALM methodologies.
- Influencing capabilities up to directors in business and Informatics groups.
- Good conceptual ability by understanding complex problems/information and good ability to abstract and represent the idea in a simple easy to understand way.
- Be able to manage ambiguity and conduct rapid prototyping to mature requirements.
- Work in an agile environment and often on multiple initiatives in parallel.
- Experiences in Pharmaceuticals industry and processes is more advantageous.
- Very good written and verbal communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills, focus on end-user value delivery. Fluent in English.
