SENIOR ANALYST, SAP FI

Company: Lactalis USA
Location: Chicago
Posted on: November 19, 2024

Job Description:

DescriptionJob Title: Senior Analyst, SAP FIReporting To: Senior Manager, SAP Finance ApplicationsLocation: Chicago, IL

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Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Chicago.
Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.
If you're looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!
Lactalis Heritage Dairy: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.
Be a key member of the Technology team at Lactalis! In this position you will play a key role in providing overall technology support for the enterprise applications used by the Finance functions of the Lactalis US Businesses. You will need to have both strategic and tactical capabilities, excellence in business processes, and a deep understanding of SAP FI solutions as well as other enterprise applications.
The Senior SAP FI Analyst is responsible for identifying technology solutions that support achievement of relevant business objectives and working with the business to define the requirements for new system or process enhancements to existing and/or new applications.
Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Support the successful build and run activities, within the defined workstream, for a US SAP ERP solution across multiple business units
• Analyze and document business processes to align with global and local requirements
• Analyze and document functional and technical requirements for SAP system designs with input from business users
• Participate in workshops and presentations with users and management to facilitate solution development and continuous improvement
• Identify benefits, risks, and alternatives in proposed system design solutions and their impact on the integration with other systems and SAP modules
• Perform SAP configuration to satisfy a solution designed to meet requirements and business process parameters
• Support system testing processes (unit, integration, and regression) including test build, execution, and defect resolution
• Maintain project and solution documentation standards to ensure sufficient detail and clarity, collaborating with business partners to ensure that these are captured correctly with clear and complete understanding of process and technology implications
• Provide on-going business user support and issue resolution
• Provide support to rollout/implementation teams.
• Assist service providers and others to implement changes and resolve issues in processes/systems.
• Travel may be required for on-site support at Lactalis facilitiesRequirementsQualified applicants will contribute the following:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business or other related academic discipline
  • 5+ years experience in a large-scale, enterprise environment
  • 5+ years experience in providing business analytics solutions, in an SAP environment utilizing a CoE support model
  • Experience in the Food Industry and/or Consumer Products preferred
  • Functional SAP knowledge in the following business processes: General Ledger accounting, Controlling, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Preference for experience in any of Banking, Fixed Assets, Tax, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis
  • Experience in an SAP S/4 HANA environment, including Central Finance and new G/L with multiple ledgers is strongly preferred
  • Experience with financial bolt-on solutions is preferred, e.g., Diapason, HFM, Vertex
  • Experience with Trade Promotions based accrual and spend analysis is preferred
  • Basic ABAP knowledge is a plus, e.g., debugging, user exits, function modules
  • Knowledge of end-to-end IT software development lifecycle from idea conception through planning, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, support and transition into operations teams
  • Experience in support ticket applications
  • Experience in Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
  • Strong analytical, time-management and facilitation skills
  • Independent, self-motivated, self-managing, proactive and responsive with a bias for action and results
  • High level of personal integrity consistent with the client's core valuesLactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.
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