Senior Functional Process Analyst (Finance)

emergiTEL Inc.; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial consulting firm in the Peel Region is seeking a professional for a 12-month contract role focused on optimizing financial reporting within SAP. The successful candidate will collaborate with finance and other functional teams to identify improvements and develop solutions in the SAP FICO environment. The role requires a bachelor's degree in business or financial management and at least 5 years of related experience, including proficiency in financial analysis and business process optimization.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of experience with SAP or other leading ERP applications focusing on finance.
• Background in CPG, Distribution, Supply Chain, or Retail industry is preferred.
• Certification as a Certified Business Analysis Professional is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Support and participate in food safety programs.
• Develop and implement solutions to streamline financial processes.
• Analyze potential cost savings and benefits for financial reporting.

Skills

SAP FICO

Financial analysis

Business process optimization

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or financial management

Certification on SAP FICO module

Tools

Advanced Excel

Visio

Power BI

Job description

About the Role

This is a 12‑month Contract role with the organization. Ideal candidate focuses on optimizing financial record to report in SAP by analyzing business and system processes, financial transactions, identifying areas for improvement, and developing solutions. They will work on SAP FICO systems and integration points, focus on reporting requirements, operations stability, and collaborate with various functional teams to resolve system issues, support end users and implement changes. Their key responsibilities include identifying and building robust financial reporting, identifying and defining business requirements, financial process optimization including month‑end processing, and ensuring data integrity across functions.

Position Accountabilities

• Support and participate in food safety programs including SQF (Safe Quality Food)
• Able to forge productive working relationships with senior business users and business managers and acquire subject matter expertise efficiently. Able to work with all levels of the organization including presenting to senior business users and managers.
• Working with SAP‑FICO system functionality and other relevant technologies to optimize processes and improve operational performance. Assess potential efficiency gains and cost savings.
• Work with the finance department to define and document business requirements for additional financial reports, enhancements, and requirements to address process gaps
• Analyze potential cost savings and benefits to implementing SAC, Makira OCR tool and determine if we should implement
• Developing and implementing solutions to streamline financial processes, process integration, and enhance overall system performance.

• Ability to analyze complex cross‑functional business processes, identify gaps, and define functional and integration requirements.
• Work with finance department to assess, define and document business requirements for new Finance functionality, SAC Budgeting and Planning, Maikira based on SAP road map
• Train and support knowledge transfer for Finance System Analyst
• Optimize finance integration process surrounding deductions and dispute management, MCBs, KPDs
• Create and manage business documentation including reference guides, current and future state process maps, user stories, business requirement document, functional requirement document and system requirement specifications.
• Understand FICO basic configuration and manage system.
• Make recommendations on leveraging and unlocking functionality within the module that has not been explored and where necessary identify enhancements required.
• Provide support to end user community by working independently. Responsible for resolving system (SAP) and related business process issues logged by end users in ticketing system.
• Ability to analyze complex cross‑functional business processes, identify gaps, and define functional and integration requirements.
• Working with various functional teams, including finance, sales, brand, trade and promotions, IT, and management teams, to implement changes and ensure smooth operation.
• Communicate with business SMEs to ensure expectations are kept in line with operations excellence.
• Drives the definition, testing, training, and implementation of functional requirements
• Support and coordinate user acceptance testing.
• Support the development of training materials and execution. Upon implementation, drives knowledge transfer to ERP production support.
• Develop presentations for senior management to facilitate discussions on project or program progress, results, and assistance needed from them

Experience and Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s degree in business or financial management, or related discipline or equivalent years of experience in finance and related reporting functions must be for this role.
• Certification on SAP FICO module must have requirement.
• 5 to 7 plus years of experience preferably on SAP or any other leading ERP application focusing on maintenance, business analysis, process improvement, and Finance system implementation support
• Certification as a Certified Business Analysis Professional is an asset
• Background in CPG, Distribution, Supply Chain, or Retail industry is preferred
• Advanced Excel, Visio, and Power BI (nice to have) proficiency
• Knowledge of EDI and multi‑system integration functioning will be advantageous.
• Working knowledge of agile frameworks, such as Scrum, or Kanban to deliver solutions
• Detail oriented, strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to demonstrate analytical thinking and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent problem‑solving and research skills
• Proven analytical background
• General knowledge of Information Systems