SAP S/4HANA Finance Data & Analytics Specialist (AZNJP00030226)

SAP S/4HANA Finance Data & Analytics Specialist – 12 Months – £580 Per Day – Outside IR35

Please note this role will require 3 days a week onsite in Macclesfield or Luton for the initial period of the contract, this will then transition to 2 days a week onsite then eventually 1 day a week onsite.

bluewaveSELECT have been retained by a global organisation to engage with the right SAP S/4HANA Finance Data & Analytics Specialist to support with global SAP S/4HANA implementation with a huge pharmaceutical company.

Job Role Details:

Roles and Responsibilities:
– Responsible for keeping the lights on for all the critical Finance global & local reporting solutions. Apply data, analytics, process, and object expertise to support interim state and S/4HANA design, acting as an integral part of the Data and Analytics design team, considering both business process and analytics requirements.
– Gain understanding and insights, very rapidly, of the complex financial landscape, financial data flows and data models that will get impacted during each deployment phase of the programme.
– Own relationship with various Finance groups like Finance Data, R2R Enterprise Process Owners & Leads, FI Analytics teams and IT teams to understand the S/4 HANA Target State and likewise interact with the BAU business. Through this collaboration understand the impact of the new data definition and design on Finance Analytics in areas of Management reporting, Statutory reporting, Group reporting etc.
– Influence Enterprise Process Owners, Global Business Process Owners and the Finance business communities to transform from old ways of mindset into the way and where and when appropriate move or use analytics.
– Provide direction and guidance in designing, building, and adjusting the Interim State strategy during the various phases of S/4HANA transformation program. The solution framework should be global in nature and at the same time allow for flexibility for localization remediation.
– Align with PMO, BAU units and stakeholders to map out interim state remediation timelines aligning to and schedules. Perform readiness checks for test data quality, data volume, lower environment landscape, UAT readiness etc. for all deployment schedules.

Essential Requirements:

• Over 20 years of experience in SAP Finance projects.
• Two or more full life-cycle S/4 HANA implementations and several ECC implementations. Experience in managing interim state for Finance in at least one of these implementations and/or integration resulting from M&A or Divestitures.
• Experience in implementing SAP CFIN.
• Deep functional expertise in SAP S/4HANA FI/CO.
• Expertise in one or more areas of Record to Report, Financial Master data, enterprise structure, product costing, material ledger, group reporting, value chains, intercompany processes etc.
• Experience and knowledge of Parallel Ledger, Financial close, Reconciliation process, Document split, profit center accounting, new asset account etc. both in S/4HANA and ECC. Additionally, is a subject matter expert in differences in S/4 HANA vs ECC in FI/CO module functionalities.
• Experience and knowledge of Analytics tools and Data Warehouses like PowerBI, Qlik, Azure Data lake, Snowflake, SAP B4H, SAP Analytics Cloud etc.
• Bachelor s or master s degree in finance or accounting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or knowledge in FP&A tools like Hyperion, SAC Planning, Anaplan etc.
• Experience in newer Finance modules or concepts of S/4 HANA. For instance, PaPM, UPA etc
• Integration of Finance with other Lines of Business, for instance Logistics, Inventory Management, Operations planning, Supply Chain, Manufacturing etc.
• Lifesciences or Healthcare industry experience.

SAP S/4HANA Finance Data & Analytics Specialist – 12 Months – £580 Per Day – Outside IR35