Senior SAP FICO Analyst
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior SAP Finance expert with over 10 years of experience to lead a critical transformation initiative within our Global Trading Company. This high-visibility role involves optimizing complex finance ecosystems, auditing existing processes, and designing robust improvements at the intersection of Finance, IT, and Energy Trading. You will be responsible for streamlining integration points, enhancing period-end closing activities, and providing ongoing support to ensure operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Optimize SAP FICO architecture and finance processes
- Lead period-end closing redesign and system integration
- Bridge Finance and IT teams as a Subject Matter Expert
- Provide day-to-day operational support and system troubleshooting
Required Skills
- 10+ years SAP FI/CO experience
- Energy Trading domain expertise
- S/4HANA Finance & Integration knowledge
- Stakeholder management and leadership
Job Details
Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Finance Process Optimization & Architecture
- Conduct a comprehensive review of existing finance processes implemented in SAP, with a specific focus on Energy Trading modules and General Ledger functionalities.
- Identify functional gaps, inefficiencies, and risks in current workflows, particularly concerning system integrations and data flow between trading platforms and SAP.
- Design and recommend architectural improvements that align with global standards for trading companies, ensuring scalability, auditability, and operational excellence.
- Lead the redesign of period-end closing processes, implementing best practices to reduce close cycles, improve accuracy, and enhance reporting timeliness.
2. Integration & System Alignment
- Evaluate and enhance integration architectures between SAP Finance, Energy Trading Systems, and other enterprise applications.
- Ensure seamless data integrity and synchronization across systems, minimizing manual interventions and reconciliation efforts.
- Collaborate with IT solution architects to translate business requirements into technical specifications for system enhancements or new implementations.
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership
- Serve as the primary subject matter expert (SME) bridging ATC Global Finance, ATS Day-to-Day Finance, and IT teams.
- Partner with Global Finance leadership to ensure that all proposed changes support broader organizational goals and regulatory compliance.
- Mentor junior finance systems analysts and provide guidance to business users on best practices for SAP Finance usage.
4. Ongoing Finance Support (ATS)
- Provide continued support for day-to-day finance operations within ATS, ensuring stability and reliability during the transformation period.
- Experience in supporting for settlement (AP/AR), treasury, GL, financial reporting or credit management.
- Assist in resolving complex transactional issues, system errors, or user access problems.
- Train new employees about commodity management modules.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related field (Master’s degree or relevant certifications like CPA, CMA, SAP preferred).
- 10+ years of professional experience in SAP Finance (FI/CO), with a significant portion dedicated to architecture, process design, or system implementation.
- Minimum 5 - 7 years of hands-on experience in Energy Trading processes.
- Expertise in configuration and implementation of Financial Accounting (FI) and Managerial Accounting (CO).
- Working knowledge of Group Reporting, SAC Planning, Receivables Management, and Document Reporting and Compliance.
- Experience in integration with SAP Application areas (TSW, SD, MM, HR & Payroll, and LE).
- Deep expertise in SAP ECC or S/4HANA Finance and integration technologies (Integration Suite, PI/PO, CPI, RFCs, BAPIs).
- Strong stakeholder management and analytical problem-solving skills.