ROLE PURPOSE & CONTEXT:

The Finance consultant position works as part of the project team, to manage and complete the FICO configuration and associated development activities in the implementation. It provides a dedicated and professional solution knowledge base, together with deployment and domain expertise. Position requires close collaboration with internal business units and IT staff, banks, third party external vendors, contractors, and other areas of the business to analyze requirements and establish deliverables, dates, and scope.

PERSON SPECIFIC:

Education:

College or University degree in Accounting (CA/ICWA/Information Technology or a related discipline)

Minimum Experience and Knowledge:

· Minimum of (7) years of experience in the design, configuration, testing, migration, debugging, delivery and support of SAP FICO processes, and 3 full SAP project life cycles of significant size, scope and complexity

· Experience in Inbound and Outbound interfaces with third party banking systems (MT940, H2H)

· Experience in Automatic Payment Program, Manual Payments & Bank reconciliations

· Experience in Inbound and Outbound interfaces with SAP Systems (ALE, IDOC, BAPI)

· Experience with and understanding of criticalities in the 3rd party interface designs and associated activities.

Job-Specific/Technical Skills required to complete the tasks:

1. Designing and implementing H2H payments solutions using DMEE and Payment Medium workbench

2. Designing and implementing electronic bank reconciliations

3. Understanding of SAP PI and end to end interface for H2H payments and Bank Reconciliation

4. Expert knowledge of SPROXY, ALE, XML messages (PAIN.001, 002), MT940 message

5. Document the business requirements

6. Provide inputs to effort estimation

7. Produce templates for capturing requirements, data migration and apply version control

8. Document blueprint, test scripts, configuration guides, training manuals, authorization matrix document and UAT test scripts

9. Perform Unit testing and System integration testing and support UAT

10. Create and test data migration tools (LSMW / custom programs) and perform mock and live data migration

11. Provide inputs to cutover plans

12. Execute assigned cutover tasks

13. Provide inputs to support transition

14. Perform knowledge transfer

Behavioural Competencies:

- Customer focus, Sound influencing and negotiation skills

- Ability to work under agility environment and understand new technologies

- Adaptability and Innovative thinking

- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills

- Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity

- Must be able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload