Senior Analyst- SAP FSCM

The Accounts Receivable (“AR”) and FSCM  Sr. Analyst is a member of the SAP FICO IT team, reporting to the Accounts Receivable and OTC Integrations Lead.

The SAP FICO IT  teamis part of LS&Co’s Technology organization andis responsible for implementing the FICO module in the SAP S4 HANA for Levi’s. For markets already live on S4, the team supports the identification and implementation of new system functionality to improve existing global or regional finance business operations; and supports new IT projects that impact finance business processes.

ABOUT THE JOB (RESPONSIBILITIES):

• Responsible for hands on work in design, build, test, deliver atleast 2 sub modules in SAP FICO within the framework of LSCO design.
• Work with third party service providers (i.e. banks, payment service providers, etc.) throughout project phases, including but not limited to; conducting periodic status or working session meetings, coordinating system integrated testing (SIT) phases, coordinating ramp up/down activities for Go-Live.

• Participate in business process design discussions and functional IT conversations.
• Develop business process documentation (process flows, business process procedures, etc)

• Actively participate in or lead workshops and presentations to validate business processes, solutions and change impacts with the end user community. Help develop workshop/presentation plan and content in advance.
• Design of reports, forms, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and user authorizations including the preparation and walkthrough of functional specification documents
• Perform FUT , Participate SIT/UAT  in the system testing phase to ensure that the systems built meets the business requirements, including development of test scenarios, validation of test scripts and support of user acceptance testing.
• Identify and document issues/errors and drive successful resolution of issues through all project phases (design, testing, and stabilization). Escalate issues when appropriate.
• Support data conversion activities (strategy, old-to-new data field mappings, data cleansing, validation, etc)
• Assist in formal and informal change management and business cutover activities
• Provide first line of support during implementation stabilization periods and hyper care
• Maintain a proactive collaboration, integration and communication approach with key stakeholders within the project and beyond, to enable full transparency on current and future business strategies and/or initiatives.

ABOUT YOU (QUALIFICATIONS):

Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Accounting or Finance; or equivalent experience.  Advanced degree preferred.

SAP Skill level and Experience:

• • FSCM – Required – Expert level + Hands on 
  • Hands on in Dispute Management for Addresses disputes over receivables and provides monitoring that can help detect payment problems early on.
  
  
  • Experienced in Collection Management to supports proactive receivables management, including account evaluation and processing of receivables.
  • Experience in Credit Management to Evaluates customers' credit worthiness using internal and external rating data to facilitate quick credit decisions.
  • Knowledge on Design and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements on SAP FSCM Dispute, Collection and Credit management.
  
  
  • Experience in Biller Direct to support customer payment processing, credit card reconciliation.
  
  
  • Certification on SAP S/4 Hana (Credit Management / FICO) is an added advantage.
  • FICO  -Proficient / Basic understanding of FICO concepts – General Ledger , Accounts receivable, cash application. CO modules – Required – Basic knowledge
  
  
  • Certification in S4 – preferred , not mandatory
  • Minimum of 7 to 10 years professional work experience in the following:
  • Must have at least 9+ years of SAP FICO experience including at least 1-2 implementation projects on S/4HANA + S/4HANA FSCM Credit, Collection and Dispute Management experience.
  
  
  
• • Implementation/Global template roll out of FSCM module in a large / multi country set up in SAP ECC/S4
  
  
  • Production support/enhancements/projects with the ability to scale up and work in implementations
  
  
  • Experience in retail space/understanding of retail industry will be an advantage 
  • Win Shuttle user/design experience is preferred.
  • Experience with reporting/dashboard tools (BI HANA, Tableau, etc.) is preferred 
  • Familiarity with Jira/Confluence or similar toolis a plus.
  
  

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work in a fast paced, hands-on environment. Embraces and adapts quickly to changes

• Ability to quickly learn organizational structure, business strategies and processes

• Strong analytical skills. Empowered to make decisions on functional, process, or operational changes including when information is incomplete but sufficient. Challenges the status quo

• A team player. Enjoys working with multiple levels of the organization and across functions or domains

• Strong oral and written communication skills 

• Ability to raise relevant issues, drive for solution/alignment, and make decisions under time constraints 

• Experience with conducting presentations and training

• Successfully manages competing priorities to ensure continuous progress is made and critical deadlines are met 

• Capable of clearly documenting business and functional requirements for current/future state processes 

• Ability to represent change within the organization

• Ability to resolve minor conflicts/issues using different tactics prior to escalation

• Willingness to work a flexible schedule on occasion to collaborate with team members in different time zones/countries and/or meet critical project deadlines ​