Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The role of the Senior SAP FICO Consultant is responsible for the planning, installing and for the configuration of software solutions and systems. It is capable to support employees with specific applications and provides expert advisory. The role analyzes information systems of adidas and individualizes specific system solutions to meet the demand of the business.
Key Responsibilities:
Specialist advice
Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization's planning and operations.
Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.
Business analysis
Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools and techniques for projects; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
Requirements definition and management
Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritization of requirements.
Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.
Porting/software configuration
Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platform-specific versions of one or more software products.
Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.
Application support
Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.
Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.
People Management / Resource Management:
Is involved in recruiting process and proposes support for hiring decision and pre-selection of candidates
Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload and organizational efficiency
Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs.
Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives
Key Relationships:
Global IT
Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
HR Management
Controlling
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
University degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
Proficient spoken and written command of English
6-8 years of progressive SAP FICO work experience
2 years of experience in team management
Translate business requirements into external/internal design documentation and implementing solutions (including SAP FICO customizing)
SAP SD process understanding
O2C process understanding (customer invoicing, customer clearing, customer payment)
Strong understanding & knowledge of regional and global market landscape and the respective customer
Managed critical elements and cross functional and regional projects
Nice to Have:
Technical (ABAP) knowledge
Biller Direct
High Radius
Salesforce
Working in an Agile way / Product led
First Experience with SAP S/4 Hana (SAP Fiori)