Ayan Infotech has an urgent and immediate requirement for an SAP Finance Functional Lead for a contract (6 months+) job opportunity in Sydney.

All applicants must have full work rights in Australia.

Title: SAP Finance Functional Lead
Location: Sydney
Type: Contract (6 months+)

Skills and Experience

• 10 years' experience in transformation and delivery of SAP products suite.
• Must have foundational experience in SAP Fundamentals, WRICEF, and specialised Finance functional domain experience.
• Significant knowledge and experience in the design, solution assurance, documentation, testing and support of enterprise scale applications, hosted on premise and in the cloud.
• Sound working knowledge of IT delivery management principles and frameworks including and SAP best practice methods.
• Have actively taken part in a full end to end SAP products project / program implementation (S4HANA desirable) to improve the solution design and ensure business requirements are met in a high-pressured environment.
• Have extensive hands-on design and configuration skills in specific functional areas. Comprehensive knowledge of various configuration options available for achieving a business process.
• Able to evaluate multiple solution options for implementing a change or an enhancement and then decide on the most suitable solution option based on defined factors.
• Where necessary, be able to challenge respectfully solution options presented based on solid facts and then collaborate to arrive at an alternate solution better suited for.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the Finance solution design is fit for purpose and meets requirements and rules.
• Ensure the Finance solution design utilises standard SAP functionality as appropriate, and those customisation / enhancements are kept to a minimum and are justifiable against the business benefits it will bring.
• Work collaboratively with System Integrator (SI) functional leads and members, participate in design workshops, and contribute and respectively challenge design decisions where required.
• Contribute to development, review, approve and maintain timely and accurate product documentation including enhancement verification documents, configuration rationale, functional and technical specifications, requirements traceability matrix and ensure they are correctly updated and meet quality standards in the approved document repository location.
• Ensure outstanding design decisions, functional / technical debt and identified risks / issues at delivery stage are followed up on and raised at appropriate forums and management levels for decision making and remediation.
• Escalate solution design conflicts within and across the functional streams to the Functional Domain Delivery Lead and follow Functional Domain Delivery Leads' direction to resolve the conflicts. Develop and / or review options papers as required to increase awareness and acceptance of the business processes and / or solution design.
• Provide support to up / downstream and other workstreams (e.g., data migration, reporting, integration etc.) in projects and other initiatives as required.
• Responsible for supporting the delivery of a repeatable functional requirements gathering process and for monitoring its effectiveness and continual improvement.
• Provide timely, specialist advice and support to the Digital Solutions Delivery Manager, various Digital Heads of Business, and product owners to ensure functional and technical design is taken onboard with decision making in functional roadmap and future initiatives.
• Responsible for relationship building between internal and SI resources to bridge the gap between business requirements to technical implementation to provide a trusted partnership to deliver efficiencies to the business.
• Accountable for significant support in root cause analysis relating to SAP product suite solution in order that problems can be resolved in full alignment to the business processes that the solution supports.
• Provide help and guidance to solution assurance lead so that quality assurance review of solutions prior to their implementation can be undertaken.

Contact: 02 9412 4178 for more details.

www.ayaninfotech.com