SAP Functional Expert - IShift Finance

• Location: Barcelona, Spain

Sanofi is globally deploying its new back-office and industrial affair cross-functional system processes - covering Finance, SBS, Supply Chain, Trade and Manufacturing across all GBUs - through the implementation of a Global ERP (iSHIFT project) using SAP S4/HANA technology. This Transformation program aims at:

Enabling Global Business Units (GBU) & Global Functions with Analytics:

• Common analytics by GBU and for Global functions to improve performance and cost management.
• Transversal data consolidation as well as more granular analyses.
• Common budget tools by GBU.

Facilitating a seamless integration of planning and actual data setting-up automation in reporting to enable Global Shared Services (SBS):

• Support SBS strategy by implementing an end-to-end approach (e.g., P2P fully covered by integrated Group solutions from eBuy to AP Invoicing, T&E, etc.).
• Opportunity to consolidate new activities in Shared Services (e.g., Master Data Management, Credit Management) and to develop global Shared Services organization models (e.g., T&E).
• Support reporting factories
• Simplifying processes and Sanofi users’ experience:
• State-of-the-art global systems ensuring an end-to-end process integration while providing a simplified user’s experience.
• Major changes to reporting or processes handled centrally at once.
• One source of truth on master data and a common automated internal control framework.
• Improved integration or divestment capabilities through a standardized methodology.

JOB SUMMARY

The iSHIFT Finance (A2R, P2P, CI2, Tax) Solution Delivery Expert will contribute to the design and the deployment of a single technical solution covering Finance’s standardized processes in a single SAP solution for all businesses on all geographies.

He/she/they will bring his/her/their expertise of business processes and SAP solutions, best practices and possible improvements.

He/she/they will contribute, for his/her/their scope of responsibility within Finance, to solution design and to deliver all project deliverables under Solution Delivery responsibility (SAP solutions design, implementation in the systems, all related documentation), for the Projects he is assigned to, for Project duration.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In the context of the iSHIFT Program, the main duties of the iSHIFT Solution Delivery Finance Expert are:

Scoping

• Contribute to Scoping studies.

• Support process expert to provide workload estimations for new scope to be deployed for Finance, or new functionalities to be implemented as part of Continuous Improvement.

Design of the Solution

• Contribute with the Business Enablement team to the Global Design or Fit-Gap workshops in order to design the solution based on industry best practices, GBU & Global Support Functions business needs.

• Propose adequate SAP solutions minimizing gaps with the SAP standard functionalities by challenging business requirements and specify for customizing and development the agreed solutions.

• Perform impact analysis for application changes for SAP and satellites applications.

• Collect and consolidate impacts for legacy systems.

• Contribute to the design of transversal streams:

• Master data management and migration strategy

• Analytics

• Authorizations

• Process controls

• UX

• Other Solution delivery Domain for integration topics

• Collect and consolidate all information on Finance required for Infrastructure and application landscape definition.

• Deliver all design deliverables defined by the program and under Solution Delivery responsibility (e.g., Solution Documents, Functional specifications, …).

• Develop him/herself on the new capabilities provided by SAP S4HANA on his/her perimeter; contribute to continuous improvement of the solution with POCs.

Development and testing

• Organize, complete, unit-test and document the configuration of the system.

• Contribute with the development team to the specific developments (functional specifications update & inputs for unit test).

• Ensure quality of developments / Contribute to audits & quality KPI follow up.

• Organize, document and execute integration and system tests.

• Contribute to user acceptance tests and finalize the solution (address defects identified).

• Use properly the documentation and testing tools as defined by iSHIFT Program.

• Complete all deliverables defined by the program and under Solution Delivery responsibility (e.g., test protocols, test reports…).

Migration and go-live

• Contribute to migration activities related to the stream.

• Document and execute cut-over activities related to the stream.

• Update training documents & contribute to trainings on the Solution.

• Ensure go-live support and hyper care activities.

• Handover to AMS: Lead the project transition to AMS for her/his functional domain (including knowledge transfer sessions and handover of ongoing incidents).

AMS

• Contribute to AMS activities: provide functional expertise for complex topics and challenge / validate solution evolutions proposed by AMS team.

• Cross- project activities 

• Support the Referent Expert for specific topics within Finance: Provide ad-hoc support to projects during Design phase and validate evolutions.

• Maintain all reference documentation up to date.

• Contribute to continuous improvement by keeping informed on new functionalities available for Finance Domain & contributing to Proof of Concepts / Prototypes.

REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Bachelor's degree in economics, engineering or computer science or comparable.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2+ years of SAP experience.
• At least 1 full lifecycle SAP implementations (all phases).
• Demonstrate a good track record in SAP design and customizing of finance modules (AP, AR, AA, GL) with focus on P2P. 
• Knowledge of the integration of the finance modules with controlling, order to cash, purchasing and manufacturing processes preferably in a Pharmaceutical / Consumer Products industry is a plus.
• Experience in the analysis and design of Finance business processes, ideally within the pharmaceutical or similar industries is a plus.
• Knowledge of other SAP functional domains as advantage.
• Experience in Master Data management, IDocs/BAPIs, interfacing SAP with Legacy applications and program debug is a plus.
• Operational experience in Finance area would be appreciated.
• Proven experience working in major IT consulting firms as an expert.
• Experience of SAP projects in complex and international environment.
• At ease with Microsoft Office tools, and in general with IS tools.
• Knowledge of Agile Project methodologies is a plus.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4 Hana is a plus.
• Knowledge off OpenText VIM and/or Coupa is a plus.

MAJOR SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Team player, service-oriented, Solution-oriented, social skills and strong ability to work in a team.
• Dynamic, results driven.
• Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions.
• Ability to analyze and problem solve user issues related to system design, process flows and SAP configuration, with consideration for other system impacts and implications.
• SAP technical skills. Fair understanding of core SAP technical topics (Debugging, Fiori UX, Batch jobs…).
• Active listener, able to challenge requirements.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Fluent in English, any other language is a plus.
• Able to convince.
• Rigorous, autonomous.
• Accountability and Reliability.

MAIN INTERACTIONS

• Main Interfaces/Relationships:
• Internal: other iSHIFT teams, Business (Finance/SBS, Supply chain), ITS partners and contributors (Application teams, ITS/IS, factories), AMS, Key Users.
• External: Implementation partner team, other partners, SAP, freelancers.

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