Job title : SAP Finance Solution Specialist
Job Location : South Africa, Deadline : January 02, 2025 Quick Recommended Links Key Responsibilities:
Finance and Accounting Solutions Specialist
- Apply architectural guidelines and principles to solutions.
- Participate actively in QA, Design Authority, and other governance forums, ensuring quality designs and solutions are well-tested and deployed.
- Act as the liaison between business teams and the system integration (SI) project team.
- Validate, socialize, and secure buy-in for business processes within the Greenfield SAP S/4 HANA implementation.
- Identify and escalate risks or issues to project management while managing mitigating actions.
- Define archiving requirements and integrate these into an overarching strategy for legacy and SAP solutions.
- Understand end-to-end processes, identify gaps between standard SAP functionality and critical business needs, and address integration requirements with third-party solutions.
- Ensure technical design and implementation align with business processes while complying with internal and external audit requirements.
- Facilitate the integration of third-party solutions and oversee reporting requirements, data migration, and validation processes.
- Support the development of authorization roles, training material, cut-over plans, and business continuity plans.
- Review and approve key project documents such as blueprints, test plans, training material, and support processes.
- Conduct integration and user acceptance testing, ensuring all defects are addressed.
Change Management
- Support functional leads and the project’s change management team with business readiness activities.
- Provide training and coaching to business leads to ensure go-live readiness and post-implementation support.
- Equip stakeholders with knowledge to support system changes and drive successful adoption of SAP solutions.
Quality Management
- Oversee unit and integration testing of the system, validate testing results, and ensure quality standards are maintained.
- Contribute to audit controls for system migration and live operations.
Qualifications and Experience:
- IT Diploma or degree.
- At least 8 years of experience in SAP Finance and Accounting implementations or support.
- Expertise in FICO, AP/AR, Group Reporting, and Asset Accounting.
- Experience with SAP Solman and the SAP Activate methodology.
- Proven ability to test and implement fully integrated SAP solutions as part of major transformation projects.
- Accounting / Financial Services jobs
