Title of Position:SAP FICO Consultant
Location: New York City, NY
Role and Responsibility / Job Description:
- Lead all data-related functional activities as part of the Global General Ledger (GL) Implementation across multiple countries.
- Strategize the sourcing of data from various ledgers/ source systems to feed a Global GL Platform. The Sources may be on diverse platforms like SAP, Computron or Excel sheets.
- Facilitate various mapping activities related to Chart of Accounts, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Branch and other Ledger Code Block Elements
- Manually model data transformations to provide expected result set for financial user validation
- Work with Regional business/IT teams to understand data availability/quality to
- Work with Regional business/IT teams to understand data availability/quality to feed a trial balance upload feeding a Common source template
- Help define Testing Approach and Strategy for Data Conversions/ transformations and related Reporting
- Potentially establish and manage a team of data analysis/ modeling/ testing resources to support the overall effort
Skill Sets
- Approx. 8-10 years of experience in working on Financial Systems and Ledgers. SAP/ERP expertise would be preferred
- Finance Domain knowledge, especially around the FP&A and Accounting space will be a big plus
- Strong Analytical Skills, should be proficient in handling huge volume of data
- Should have sufficient team handling skills to
- Should have sufficient team handling skills to distribute work effectively
- Strong Communication skills to manage Stakeholders at various levels in the organization (Finance Leads/ Managers/ IT leads/ Solution Architects etc)
- Ability to see the bigger picture (Source Ledgers, Global GL, Consolidation Systems, Data Warehouses, Cognos etc), instead on simply focusing on immediate deliverables
- Re-engineering/ Solution-Oriented Approach to simplify, standardize and rationalize
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