SAP FICO/FSCM Senior Business Analyst

Description

Position Summary

SAP FICO/FSCM Senior Business Analyst with expertise in Accounts Receivable (AR), Credit Management, Cash Application, and Collection Management is responsible for analyzing business requirements, optimizing financial processes, and implementing SAP solutions to enhance AR operations, credit risk management, and cash flow optimization.

Essential Functions and Duties

• Manage relationships and liaison with finance business stakeholders on identifying and owning the business processes and requirements to be built in SAP S4/HANA Enterprise Management ERP.
• Lead the design, configuration, and implementation of SAP FI-AR (Accounts Receivable), Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR), Cash Application, and Collections Management solutions.
• Ensure seamless integration of AR and Credit Management with Sales & Distribution (SD), Treasury (TRM), and Controlling (CO) modules.
• Implement and optimize Cash Application processes, ensuring accurate and automated allocation of incoming payments.
• Partner with systems integrator resources in performing fit-gap analysis, build and testing of the solution that meets the business requirements.
• Review impact of SAP functionality across functional teams and provide impact analysis and decisions to FI/FSCM business process owners, project managers, and other SAP Implementation partners and team members.
• Support existing finance and controlling business processes and suggest improvements.
• Collect requirement for new business processes and document in common template requirement documentation.
• Own solution adoption and business user facing documentation (e.g. process scope, user manuals, solution briefs, functional summaries). Write both the project charter and the project management plan for assigned projects and make sure the project management plan stays up to date throughout the project. 
• Responsible for a variety of duties including supporting users, diagnosing and resolving system problems, implementing new modules as a part of a team, making configuration changes, testing patches and upgrades, and modifying and creating production reports.
• Coordinate and serve as the focal point for requirements for modifications to existing software systems or the consideration of potential new software systems in support of the enterprise. Create and keep up to date project components; project schedule, milestones, scope statement, project activities, project issue lists, stakeholder list.
• Plan Risk management according to project management plan.  Analyze risks and then plan risk response.
• Work within approved budget; Develop and implement cost saving measures.
• Adheres specifically to all company policies and procedures, Federal and State regulations, and laws. 
• Display dedication to position responsibilities and achieve assigned goals and objectives.
• Always represent the Company in a professional manner and appearance.
• Understand and internalize the Company’s purpose,
• Display loyalty to the Company and its organizational values.
• Display enthusiasm and dedication to learning how to be more effective on the job and share knowledge with others.
• Work effectively with co-workers, internal and external customers and others by sharing ideas in a constructive and positive manner; listen to and objectively consider ideas and suggestions from others; keep commitments; keep others informed of work progress, timetables, and issues; address problems and issues constructively to find mutually acceptable and practical business solutions; address others by name, title, or other respectful identifier, and respect the diversity of our work force in actions, words, and deeds.
• Comply with the policies and procedures stated in the Injury and Illness Prevention Program by always working in a safe manner and immediately reporting any injury, safety hazard, or program violation.
• Ensure conduct is consistent with all Compliance Program Policies and procedures when engaging in any activity on behalf of the company. Immediately report any concerns or violations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Business, CS, IS, MIS, Finance) or four (4) years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.

Required Knowledge:

• Must have strong business knowledge in core FICO modules (GL, AP, AR) as well as asset management, profitability analysis and Credit Management (FSCM).
• This role requires a deep understanding of SAP FICO modules, integration with Order-to-Cash (OTC) processes, and collections management functionalities to drive operational efficiency and business growth.
• Must possess a strong understanding of SAP configuration set-ups, functionality, interaction of the ERP modules and ability to diagnose and resolve problems within and between modules.

Preferred Knowledge:

• Familiarity with supporting large organizations in the $100M - $1B range and 300+ users

Required Experience:

• Minimum ten (10) years [fourteen (14) for non-degreed candidates] of experience in finance support areas.
• Minimum five (5) years end-to-end project experience implementing SAP FICO (S/4HANA Enterprise Management).
• Strong expertise in SAP FI-AR (Accounts Receivable), Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR), and Collection Management.
• Experience with Cash Application, Lockbox Processing, and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) integration.
• Hands-on experience with SAP SD-FI integration.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance and Fiori applications is desirable.

Required Skills:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills.
• Strong decision-making abilities
• Strong Organizational skills
• Must be detail oriented and proven ability to prioritize work
• Must have effective verbal and written communication skills
• Must have the ability to work with limited supervision and as part of a team
• Must have the ability to manage relationships with business stakeholders and work collaboratively with partners and cross functional teams.
• Ability to lead, motivate, influence, negotiate, build trust, and coach project members.

Physical requirements

Vision, hearing, speech, movements requiring the use of wrists, hands and/or fingers. Must have the ability to view a computer screen for prolonged periods and the ability to sit for extended periods. Must have the ability to work the hours and days required to complete the essential functions of the position, as scheduled.  The employee occasionally lifts to 20 lbs. and occasionally kneels and bends. Must have the ability to travel occasionally. Working condition include normal office setting.

Mental Demands

Learning, thinking, concentration and the ability to work under pressure, particularly during busy times.   Must be able to pay close attention to detail and be able to work as a member of a team to ensure excellent customer service.  Must have the ability to interact effectively with co-workers and customers, and exercise self-control and diplomacy in customer and employee relations’ situations.  Must have the ability to exercise discretion as well as appropriate judgments when necessary.  Must be proactive in finding solutions.

Direct Reports

No

EEO/AAP Statement

FFF Enterprises and Nufactor are an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on the following characteristics: race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, gender, age (40 years and over) qualified veteran and any other characteristic protected by state or federal anti-discrimination law covering employment. These categories are defined according to Government Code section 12920. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.