SAP Finance Business Engagement Analyst

Teledyne FLIR, LLC; Hudson (NH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated seeks a Finance Business Engagement Analyst to connect Finance with SAP analysts, defining requirements and owning the Finance design across the organization. You will ensure cost-effective SAP solutions aligned with best practices and our global template.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, coordinate with different functions, and drive reporting improvements while training SMEs and enforcing standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years SAP FICO experience.
• Associate or Bachelor degree in finance, accounting, information systems, or a related field.
• Hands-on configuration and business process knowledge of FI (GL accounting, Fixed Assets, AR/AP, Banking) and CO (product costing, service order costing, results analysis, profitability reporting).
• Understanding of SAP best practice solutions in S/4HANA.
• Experience in an integrated SAP environment with a single controlling area and multiple company codes and regions.
• Understanding of database applications, system development, report writing, and SAP ERP Production support and project experience, with solid project management skills.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with all levels and manage multiple projects with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for subject matter experts on improvements or issues, and prioritize requests by business need and cost.
• Turn business requests into SAP solutions by defining requirements and designing configuration, enhancements, and modifications.
• Own solution design for Finance and the financial side of every project.
• Prepare project estimates, prototype solutions where it helps, and manage small to medium projects.
• Coordinate with other functional areas so solutions work across functions and business units, and similar processes use similar solutions.
• Make sure changes from other analysts follow the global design, and guide them on key issues.
• Define requirements for forms and reports, and support urgent reporting needs as well as long-term reporting solutions.
• Work with system users, management, consultants, and software support to resolve business issues.
• Work in cross-functional teams on the configuration, upgrade, and maintenance of SAP and related systems.
• Redesign processes to match best practices and SAP functionality.
• Train SMEs and help them update end-user documentation.
• Help create and enforce IT software standards, and occasionally design non-SAP applications.

Skills

SAP FICO

Business process analysis

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's or Associate degree in finance, accounting, information systems

Tools

SAP

S/4HANA

FI/CO module knowledge

Job description

Be visionary Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research. We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

The Finance Business Engagement Analyst connects Finance with the technical SAP analysts at Teledyne Digital Imaging. You’ll work with the business to find problems SAP can solve, recommend the approach, and own the Finance design across the organization. That means choosing cost-effective solutions that meet user needs and keeping them consistent with SAP best practices and our global template.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for subject matter experts on improvements or issues, and prioritize requests by business need and cost
• Turn business requests into SAP solutions by defining requirements and designing configuration, enhancements, and modifications
• Own solution design for Finance and the financial side of every project
• Prepare project estimates, prototype solutions where it helps, and manage small to medium projects
• Coordinate with other functional areas so solutions work across functions and business units, and similar processes use similar solutions
• Make sure changes from other analysts follow the global design, and guide them on key issues
• Define requirements for forms and reports, and support urgent reporting needs as well as long-term reporting solutions
• Work with system users, management, consultants, and software support to resolve business issues
• Work in cross-functional teams on the configuration, upgrade, and maintenance of SAP and related systems
• Redesign processes to match best practices and SAP functionality
• Train SMEs and help them update end-user documentation
• Help create and enforce IT software standards, and occasionally design non-SAP applications

Job Qualifications

Required:

• 8+ years SAP FICO experience
• Associate or Bachelor degree in finance, accounting, information systems, or a related field
• Hands-on configuration and business process knowledge of FI (GL accounting, Fixed Assets, AR/AP, Banking) and CO (product costing, service order costing, results analysis, profitability reporting)
• Understanding of SAP best practice solutions in S/4HANA
• Experience in an integrated SAP environment with a single controlling area and multiple company codes and regions
• Understanding of database applications, system development, report writing, and SAP ERP Production support and project experience, with solid project management skills
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with all levels and manage multiple projects with minimal supervision

Preferred:

• SAP PS module knowledge
• S/4HANA Finance experience, including the ability to explain how it differs from R/3
• Experience with a 4-4-5 or similar calendar, and with US Government contracting finance and how to set it up in SAP

Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions. Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day. Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.