Associate Manager SAP Business Process Implementation Lead - Intercompany Accounting - Remote

Stryker • Kalamazoo, MI

165d • $100,500 - $215,300 • Remote

About The Position

The role reports to the Intercompany Accounting Business Process Owner within the Finance workstream. Responsible for the achievement of program goals, objectives, and deliverables through execution of deployment activities including testing, training, data conversion, cut over and hyper care. Works with business deployment teams to achieve process harmonization and organizational change management. Drives implementation of 'to-be' Commercial Template processes for Intercompany accounting in partnership with program process owners and business deployment teams in our divisions, functions and geographies.

Requirements

• BS, BA in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration (with concentration in Finance, Accounting, or Economics), Economics, Mathematics or Statistics required.
• Minimum 6+ years of experience in Finance or Accounting required.
• Strong understanding of Intercompany Accounting processes.

Nice To Haves

• Master's in finance, Accounting or Business Administration (with concentration in Finance, Accounting, or Economics), Economics, Mathematics or Statistics.
• Professional certification preferred. CPA, CMA or equivalent.
• Experience with the Blackline Intercompany Hub is a plus.
• Experience with Supply chain processes and the relation to accounting.
• Prior experience on an ERP, major business-system, or large-scale transformational projects or programs.
• Exhibits acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the timely completion of project activities within their process area, focused primarily on release delivery, including process harmonization, testing, training, data load, cutover, and hyper-care.
• Understand the business process in scope of the end-to-end (E2E) and collaborates with other BPILs, BPOs and E2E leads to drive E2E solution adoption.
• Drive adoption of to-be business processes to align with ERP capabilities and gain alignment with the Stryker divisions, functions, and geographies.
• Facilitate rapid decisions impacting solution development, defect resolution, and deployment activities.
• Coordinate involvement of Stryker regional/divisional business process experts (BPEs) in key project activities and work with them to understand the business process steps and data flows in support of successful implementation and adoption by their business.
• Close collaboration with our Global Finance Centers during the deployment.
• Prepare the team for incremental scope and changes to live processes through clear communication, training and change management.
• Support onboarding of local data readiness network resources for data objects in their process area.
• Ensure understanding of how data enables design in their process area and ensure completeness and accuracy of enterprise master data.
• Support local data resources during data load processes to ensure they are updated on data design.
• Work closely with business process owners (BPOs/ISPOs) and provides input into the configuration of the system.
• Work with BPEs and business analytics (BA) to refine the release specific analytics requirements and prioritization.
• Work with testing team to turn business scenarios and requirements into test scenarios and expected outcomes.
• Participate in scoping activities for user acceptance testing (UAT) and day-in-the-life (DITL); help to prep scenarios and data as needed for successful outcomes.
• Ensure solution stays within scope of design lock documentation (BPM, BPD, FDS).
• Support system integration testing (SIT) activities for process areas.
• Support the creation and delivery of training and procedure content.
• Support business enablement team and deployment teams with role mapping activities.
• Conduct Train the trainer (TTT), support instructor led training (ILT) and day-in-the-life (DITL).
• Provide business process support during cutover and hyper-care.

Benefits

• $100,500 - $215,300 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits.
• Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree