Digital Technology - Finance P2P

Key Accountabilities

• Supports demand management in the ideation phase and early stages of the Digital Technology (DT) projects.
• Executes Change Management activities utilizing T-shape model (broad P2P techno-functional skills combined with deep expertise in one or more application areas e.g. SAP MM/VIM, Concur)
• Provides solutions that are compatible with the existing (technical and functional) architecture to ensure compliance with strategy, policy, guidelines, budget, and operational supportability.
• Ensures quality and consistency with functional template design for deployments.
• Monitors the market to gain knowledge and understanding of currently emerging technologies in own area of expertise.
• Build and maintain strong relationship with Finance process owners (globally) and becomes a trusted advisor for business processes covered in own area of expertise (P2P – Finance)
• Lead and/or participate in projects covering the SAP FICO domain including integration with other SAP modules and applications
• Supports demand management in defining project charters and translation into detailed requirements – in line with Nouryon’s project methodology.
• Translates business requirements into solutions and/or solution directions.
• Defines, agrees and communicates the roadmap for the applications in scope.
• E2E ownership of assigned CRs; including impact assessment, solutioning, build and deployment. Ensures managed deployments of CRs.
• Keeps relevant documentation and CMDB up-to-date for the business processes and applications in scope.
• Ensure quality and consistency with template design for deployments – check of designs and build.
• Contributes to and initiates continuous improvement activities

Key Activities

• Leads and/or participates in DT projects in different roles e.g. project manager, lead analyst/architect, finance project consultant or QA role.
• E2E management of CRs process in line with the DT Operating Model
• Pro-actively supports Finance business leads and other stakeholders regarding IT related topics

We believe you bring

• Background: SAP FICO professional in IT (in-house or consultancy roles)
• Professional with around 7-10 years of experience in the SAP P2P domain including at least 5 years hands-on experience with SAP VIM / OpenText solutions.

We believe you are ...

• Master’s degree in business management, computer science, or a related field of study
• Taking Responsibility
• Prioritizing & Organizing work
• Impactful reporting
• Embedding Change
• Coordinating between different business and DT functions
• Good communicator and influencer: Ability to influence internal and external parties and communicate clearly in at different levels. Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Used to working in a global environment and familiar with regional specifics.
• Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new trends and technologies, especially in the SAP ecosystem.
• Solves problems using knowledge, experience, and analysis of available information.
• Broad knowledge and experience of architecture, technology platforms and business domains with relevant experience in SAP FICO (Expertise area: P2P applications like SAP VIM, Concur, OpenText, Tax solutions and integration with Ariba and SAP MM).
• Hands-on experience in SAP FICO implementation projects and programs.
• Knowledge of and experience in technical components of OpenText is a strong pre.
• Preferably knowledge of Celonis (process mining) and reporting tools (Azure, PowerBI).