Location: Remote, Timezone : EST

Client : Incusol Direct Client

Duration: 1 year and Extendable

IT Experience: 5+ yrs

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• BS in Accounting, Finance, IT, Computers, or another similar field
• 5  years of Reporting/BI in SAP ERP, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BW/BEx, SAP S/4 HANA and associated support experience specifically within SAP FI, CO, AR, AP, GL, PA, PCA, CCA etc.
• Excellent knowledge and experience working with Public Clouds such as AWS, AZURE & GCP
• At-least 2 full Life-cycle experience in SAP BI/BW/BEx, SAP Business Object, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Analysis for Office etc.
• Experience with at least 1 FP&A tools such as SAP BPC, Hyperion/HFM, OneStream, Anaplan etc.
• Experience building/supporting enterprise data warehouse (EDW) from ground up in SAP BW, Vertica, Teradata, Netezza, Snowflake a must

The Ideal Qualifications:

• MBA or equivalent and/or Certified Public Accountant preferred
• full life-cycle SAP S/4 HANA implementation with Universal Ledger preferred
• Experience in other SAP products – SAP FPSL, SAP BPC, SAP C4C is Bonus
• Knowledge of US GAAP, insurance statutory accounting/reporting and/or experience in Financial Institutions preferred
• Ability to work with senior management and influence decision making
• Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to adapt to change
• Ability to proactively take ownership of projects and drive to completion
• Experience working in a Finance transformational setting & driving change
• Use increasing insight to identify and implement improvements that increase the business value and efficiency of the work performed.
• Ability to Initiate and/or leads increasingly complex projects and continuous improvement activities that may span beyond the scope of own team
• Experience in best-in-class control execution/documentation
• Detail-oriented with demonstrated oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work across levels, from staff to executive management
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in future
• Travel between Boston and Springfield required

The Impact:

• Accountability –
  • Act as SME for SAP ERP centric reporting, leveraging data from SAP S/4 HANA, AWS Data Lake, Vertica, Anaplan, SAP BW, SAP FPSL and other related financial applications.
  • Collaborate closely with other Controllers teams, such as financial close team for accurate accounting of various transactions/events
• Business Acumen –
  • Review and optimize current reporting/dashboarding landscape.  Identify improvements to reduce dependency on spreadsheets
  • Understand data flow through the financial systems to the accounting function & plan appropriately for changes while prioritizing other tasks.
• Inclusion –
  • Rationalize reporting by partnering across teams & Product owners for SAP HANA, Fiori, BI/BW, Analysis for Office, Vertica, AWS Data Lake.
  • Coordinate & collaborate across Finance, enterprise technology, internal audit, enterprise risk, and external audit, as appropriate
• Resilience –
  • Support the automation effort to reduce data silos and intermediatory storage of data to reduce the overall day lifecycle time.
• Development –
  • Own the training and change mgmt. around reports/dashboards for users across controllership. Ability to develop training material and facilitate the training workshops on continuum basis.
  • Share Reporting & Dashboarding’s best practices, industry knowledge, and personal expertise to educate both business users and implementation team, in formal and ad hoc settings
• Leading Others –
  • Lead the liaison and report/dashboard building activities in partnership with IT, Financial Planning (FP&A), Actuary, Front Office, & others in firm.
  • Lead Use Case formulation, As-Is/To-be analysis, product demos, Joint Application Development (JAD sessions) to help understand processes, reporting needs, and associated business benefits
• Agility –
  • Domain Process owner for all dashboard/report changes, validations, consistency, maintenance, updates, & data quality checks
  • Guides the team in establishing effective control/governance for reports/dashboards with tight milestones for successful execution