Principal SAP Functional Analyst - PowerPlan

1872 Consulting; Piedmont (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job description

Principal SAP Functional Analyst – PowerPlan

Piedmont, CA – 3 days onsite per week (Tues-Thurs)

Position Summary

In this role you are responsible for configuring, implementing, maintaining, and upgrading PowerPlan to provide system solutions that meet business requirements.

Responsibilities

Business Support and Consulting:

1. Define standard processes in PowerPlan and drive adaptation in Finance and Tax areas.
2. Analyze end-to-end complex business processes across all modules within PowerPlan.
3. Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new PowerPlan capabilities.
4. Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross-organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.
5. Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

Functional Analysis:

1. Automate/optimize PowerPlan system.
2. Map business requirements to SAP S4 system capabilities and configure to meet requirements.
3. Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution.
4. Perform PowerPlan configuration and do quality review and testing activities.

Requirements

1. 10 years of experience in IT, preferably all in SAP.
2. Strong experience with PowerPlan Adapter for SAP or similar.
3. Leadership experience.

Desired

1. Familiarity with CR, PM, Asset/ARO, Depr modules and their data flow.
2. Experience with the full lifecycle of SAP EAM projects, from creation and estimation through completion and month-end close, including integration with PowerTax and PowerPlan.