This position needs an analytical, well-educated, knowledgeable, and motivated team-player with strong FICO background, work ethic and integrity that will become a key part of Global IT to implement and provide adequate, 24x7 support for FICO (Finance and Controlling). Providing daily support to Magna divisions/plants, especially Americas region. Needs to discuss with users, host workshops, define optional solutions, and be able to initiate FICO improvement projects, implement it, and manage project status/schedule is also required.
Major Responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements and gaps not met by the existing systems / implementations.
- Identify feasible solutions within SAP framework and estimate effort needed to meet those business requirements and gaps.
- Implement solutions using SAP configuration, master data setup or code and support roll-out projects.
- Provide day-to-day SAP end-user support including month end closing.
- Provide user training to group/divisions.
- Create a positive work environment by demonstrating and sharing functional/technical knowledge.
- Complete other duties as required by the Manager from time to time.
- Effectively uses teamwork to positively contribute to a high morale/high-performance team culture, consulting attitude and strong personal integrity.
- He/she ensures global support.
- Perform a complete, detailed needs analysis evaluating available applications and identifying opportunities for enhancing existing systems.
- Assist in the coordination and collaboration of external consultants (Customer & Suppliers) as well as internal team members.
- Time tracking and documentation according to Magna Global IT standards.
- Ensures billing of his/her projects and changes.
- Design practical, creative, conceptual technical solutions for business requirements balancing appropriate technology, cost and implementation timeline.
- Develop and adhere to standards for design, coding, testing, change control, code deployment, software controls, configuration management, continuous integration, and troubleshooting and root cause analysis of application problems.
Performance Measures
- Project Management (In time, in quality, In budget) proper documentation and reporting.
- SLA (Service level Agreement) fulfillment to the divisions.
- Less problem and escalations.
- Project time should be more than 30%.
- Support new SAP Implementations.
Knowledge and Education
- Bachelor s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or similar discipline.
- Excellent English communication skills (verbal and written).
- Experience in Automotive Industry is preferred.
Work Experience
- More than 5 years of SAP FICO-related experience.
Skills and Competencies
- Experience of SAP full cycle project as a FICO consultant.
- Basic finance and controlling concepts knowledge are must.
- Familiar with finance accounting sub modules, have experience of data migration methodology, such as fixed asset migration, G/L master data migration, and inventory migration, etc.
- Able to configure and support FICO module in SAP.
- Product costing knowledge is required.
- Profitability Analysis knowledge is required.
- Familiar with FICO integration with other SAP modules such as material management, sales and distribution.
- Experience of China localization is preferred, GTS, reporting is desired if working for Asia Pacific region.
- Experience of FICO validation and substitution or enhancements is required.
- Payment interface with bank is desired.
- Material Ledger and Project Systems skill will be a plus.
- ABAP debug skill is a plus.
- Review and work up development requests & specs for ABAP programmers to develop customized functionality or reports to meet business requirements.
- Knowledge of Business Warehouse (BW) is preferred.
- Analytical and flexible approaches in the projects and coordination of available resources.
- Excellent performance and organizational skills.
- Must be able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload.
- Able to collaborate with users and have a strong desire to host workshops.
- Good communication and customer service skills.
