SAP Finance Business Process Expert

**Key Responsibilities**
- 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.

**Qualifications**:** Education and Experience**
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting or related field required
- CPA and/or advanced accounting degree preferred.
- Curious, bold thinkers who want to grow their careers and be part of a winning team.
- Market shaping individuals who want to transform the agriculture industry to meet the world's growing need for food.
- Collaborators who thrive in a diverse, inclusive work environment.
- Innovators who bring initiative and fresh ideas that drive our business into the future and make us an industry leader.
- 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.