Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities across typical phases of an SAP project:
Opportunity Pursuit:
- Ability to take lead in shaping the deals, prepare solutions, approach/timelines, team sizing, cost estimates, etc.
- Ability to present and articulate value in Orals presentations.
Analyze Phase:
- Ability to understand client business model / requirements / pain points
- Ability to understand big picture vision of the transformation program and prepare a plan to drive the day-to-day execution of the project.
Design Phase:
- Ability to explain best practices to clients.
- Ability to respectfully challenge clients and convince them on their mindset of customizing everything in SAP.
- Ability to conduct workshops across all finance processes and articulate messages extremely clearly.
- Ability to convince clients to make key design decisions (eg: one common chart of accounts OR decentralized chart of accounts)
- Ability to provide SAP or non-SAP solutions to unique problems / business scenarios based on your experience with other companies in same or other industries.
- Ability to prepare deliverables such as blueprint documentations, change impact assessment, Fit/Gap analysis, etc. and obtain signoffs
- Ability to present a design overview to the C-suite and connect with them.
Build Phase:
- Ability to educate clients on SAP configuration needs for them to provide SPRO values (eg: VKOA/OBYC)
- Ability to perform configurations in SAP or able to guide team members based on experience.
- Ability to write Functional design documents for add-on requirements in SAP. Ability to communicate with developers to build as desired.
- Ability to assist in Unit Testing and perform SIT (including cross module scenarios).
Test Phase:
- Ability to write test scripts and test scenarios with co-operation of key finance business users.
- Ability to obtain sign offs for Test scripts.
- Ability to facilitate UAT.
- Ability to identify defects and liaise with developers to resolve and re-test them.
Training Phase:
- Ability to prepare easy to understand and self-explanatory training materials
- Ability to conduct mass user training (TTT / EUT). Ability to handle large crowds from 10-50 people.
- Ability to be confident, concise, and articulate in training.
Data Migration:
- Ability to create a data strategy for master data and transactional data (eg: how should the cost centers be transformed, what happens to AR open items, etc.)
- Ability to assist business users in data cleansing and data transformation.
Deployment:
- Ability to assist and advice business users for cutover activities.
Post Go-live:
- Ability to provide 1st level support up until 1st month end close.
Other Expectations:
- Be updated with Art of possible technologies in Finance (eg: RPA for reconciliations, machine learning for collections, etc.).
- Ability to delegate and coach team members (will be expected to multi-task, delegation is crucial).
- Create self-explanatory PowerPoint slides (simple, clear, to the point).
- Outstanding interpersonal skills.
- Able to be Independent / Entrepreneurial.
- Ability to challenge.
- Ability to create structure in cases of ambiguity.
- Ability to lead by example.
