Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The role of the SAP Retail FICO Tech 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:
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Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organisation.
Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations.
Requirements definition and management:
Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for small- scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required.
Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source.
Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
Provides input to the requirements base-line.
Investigates, manages and applies authorised 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.
Key Relationships:
Global IT.
Respective business function (Digital, Finance, Omnichannel, Wholesale/Retail).
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
At least 5 years of experience in relevant area.
Experience with full life cycle implementations of SAP FICO with multi country rollouts preferred.
Retail or Fashion experience is highly desirable.
Requirement gathering, design, testing, documentation and Deployment support.
Strong Analytical skill along with Strong FICO process knowledge.
Proficient in the business processes associated with financial operations, which includes expertise in general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, asset management, cost center accounting, product cost controlling, profitability analysis, and profit center accounting.
Must have prior experience in Implementations, Rollout and Support experience is required in SAP FICO on large international projects.
Complete knowledge of integration with other modules (SD/PP/MM).
Four-year college or university degree with focus on IT or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Proficient spoken and written command of English.