**Description**:
The role includes strong knowledge of Finance business processes globally, supporting SAP systems with region-specific localizations. The position is a key liaison between our ERP solutions, the line-of-business teams and the business product owner. This position defines and drives the tactical, day-to-day aspects of discovering, validating, documenting and mapping business processes to SAP-ERP solutions through modeling, simulating and analyzing current and future states.
The BPE must be able to bridge the IT and business domains and effectively communicate between each side. The BPE will thoroughly understand the Corteva AgriscienceTM Finance, Controlling and Taxation business strategy and processes in order to participate in managing the Finance Product Roadmap.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Primary IT point of contact across S/4HANA global implementation spanning multiple countries over North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific for SAP Finance.
- Assist business in mapping local Financial, Controllership & Taxation processes to Global Template solution in S/4HANA and SAP-ECC. Assist in definition of functional and non-functional system requirements.
- Translate process design to systems design on the SAP S/4HANA and SAP-ECC platforms.
- Maintenance and production support of global SAP ECC systems through end-of-life as they get replaced by S/4HANA.
- Definition and configuration of system functionality required to meet system design.
- Write system design documents, including detailed design, technical design, update requirements traceability, and test scenarios, cases.
- Perform functional and non-functional testing of system in meeting requirements, including unit-testing, SIT, UAT, regression testing, and performance testing.
- Identify & define process and systems' dependencies while implementing new SAP functionality in the context of ongoing enterprise business and IT initiatives.
- Understand requirements, perform fit-gap analysis, provide estimates, suggest process and technology improvements.
- Write functional design documents detailed at SAP table-field level, and work with developers to explain technical requirements.
- Manage the quarterly upgrade process through evaluation, regression testing, and deployment.
- Able to help with SAP Finance Security role definition, and SAP authorization objects.
- Able to handle entire Solution Delivery Lifecycle on medium to large SAP projects.
- SAP-Taxes scope includes domestic as well as international (Cross-border) Taxes, including configuration and maintenance of SAP Taxes for Sales & Purchase tax, VAT, Country-specific localizations, Withholding taxes and integration with 3rd-party tax bolt-on software.
- Prefer solution design experience demonstrating understanding and handling of intercompany transactions, cost and prices transfer, and tax impact.
Drives implementation, alignment, and execution of business processes to ensure maximum benefit is derived. Identifies complex problems and ensures resolution through the appropriate channels. May participate in the design, testing, and implementation of system upgrades. Participates in root cause analysis of problems, and appropriately communicates to ensure corrective actions are implemented. Drives business process improvements and the innovative use of integrated systems.
**Qualifications**:
Position Requirements
- Articulate with verbal and written communication skills in English. Possesses strong presentation skills for a global audience.
- Prior domain or functional experience with Finance, Controlling or Taxation preferred.
- Ability to research requirements, solutions, evaluate alternative approaches, and present recommended solution in SAP.
- Ability to independently design and configure SAP Finance, Controlling & Taxation processes.
- Strong attention to detail and quality/accuracy of deliverables, preferring outcomes over outputs.
- Demonstrated effectiveness and ability to work independently, and drive results with peers, stakeholders, and customers.
- Acts honestly and professionally, ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
- Ability to prioritize and multitask under mínimal supervision, and respond with flexibility towards tight project deadlines or issues impacting production operations.
- Decisive ability to recognize when to act and when to escalate.
- Experience working with shared services preferred.
- Prior experience working with Big4 SAP system integrators, and on multi-country SAP environments preferred.
Experience and Education Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting or related field required.
- CPA and/or advanced accounting degree preferred.
- 10 years of experience on SAP Finance required. Prefer SAP certified professionals.
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