Essential Functions, Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work closely with finance and cost accounting to support monthly, quarterly and year-end financial close periods
  
• Support financial reporting from SAP and provide insight and options to financial report capability within the BI space
  
• Assist in testing process in order to discover errors and issues in business processes, documentation or userâ??s inability to execute transactions in SAP
  
• Learn, understand and utilize the IT Management System (project management, request management, project portfolio, service portfolio)
  
• Application support, training of end users
  
• Cooperating with Business Analysts from other modules such as MM, PM, PP and PS.
  
• Experience in SAP FI and CO modules (usually at least 7 - 10 years) - General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cost and Profit Center Accounting (CPA) and Internal Orders
  
• Configuration of SAP FI, CO modules in IMG based on business requirements.
  
• Application support, training of end users
  
• Profit and loss (P&L) analysis
  
• Balance sheet accounts reviews and reconciliations
  
• General Ledger (GL) and Cost Center (CC) master data management
  
• Purchase price valuation (PPV) analysis
  
• Performing GAAP analysis, improving processes and looking for new opportunities/products to support the needs of the business
  

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• The ideal candidate for the IT Senior FICO Business Analyst role will have demonstrated capabilities supporting the financial, controlling and cost accounting environment and the critical skills to find strategic solutions to continuously evolve the business.
  

Qualifications:

• Effective communication (verbal and written) and documentation skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of the organization up to and including executives roles.
  
• Knowledge and interest in transactional business systems and how they interface with the business (i.e. ERP, WMS, MES, CRM, PLM)
  
• Knowledge and interest in financial software and relevant third party applications
  
• Knowledge, interest and understanding of Project Management Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid)
  
• 7-10 years of experience in financial systems environment with an emphasis in Manufacturing
  
• Experience with review, analysis, and maintenance of cost accounting and finance master data in SAP.
  
• Knowledge, understanding of Federal/state Income tax return statement preparation.
  

Personal Attributes:

• Intellectual curiosity ?? consistently trying new methods, never comfortable.
  
• Business acumen ? understands how our business makes money and how talent drives it.
  
• Analytics and problem solving ?? uses logic and methods to solve difficult problems and with effective solutions.
  
• Comfortable with ambiguity as we are building an environment of growth and change. A positive attitude, flexibility and resilience facing multiple demands and shifting priorities.
  
• Strong team contributor, sharing ideas, knowledge and best practices.
  
• Influencing skills ? the ability to quickly establish credibility and effectively manage others through influence.
  
• Self-motivated, confident, and able to work effectively with little supervision; takes initiative, makes things happen, accepts accountability and has a \"can do\" attitude.
  
• A strong value system, excellent judgment, unquestioned integrity.
  

Education & Experience:

• Bachelora??s degree in a technical or equivalent field or acceptable equivalency of education, certification, and experience
  
• Must have at least 7 years working as a Senior FICO BA.
  
• Must have experience in SAP ERP
  
• Experience working in a manufacturing cost accounting environment
  
• Knowledge of fixed assets and how they are supported in SAP