Lead Process & Solutions Finance Analyst

Flowers Foods•REMOTE, SC

1d•$115,000 - $130,000•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for the execution of SAP Financials solutions and services, including projects, enhancements, and application support, in collaboration with Flowers' business and internal IT partners and management. The role will oversee multiple financial accounting subprocesses and requires an individual with business domain expertise in finance and management accounting, as well as SAP functional expertise in various submodules such as GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Internal Orders, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Product Costing, Project Systems, FS-CM, BPC, or Hyperion. The ideal candidate is results-oriented and value proposition-driven.

Requirements

An undergraduate bachelors or post graduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering or Business Administration.
CPA preferred.

Nice To Haves

8+ years of progressive experience in SAP FICO application design, development, quality assurance, testing, training, implementation, and support processes.
1+ years of experience in an IT management and leadership role.
1+ full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO and related integrations and bolt-ons such as SAP BPC (or Hyperion), Blackline, Vertex, and other 3rd party supporting applications using ASAP, Agile, and other SDLC methodologies.
Experience leading SAP FICO processes and integrating with end-to-end process design.
Experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
Full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO experience in North America.
Experience integrating SAP FICO solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.

Responsibilities

Prioritize project, enhancement, and support requests with business and IT stakeholders and manage delivery.
Develop systems requirements, design, configure, prototype, work with IT teams to realize the change, work with finance users to test, train, define support procedures, and roll out SAP FICO business solutions under multiple deadlines.
Create functional design documents for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions.
Create business process functional diagrams, test plans, test scripts, and training documentation.
Execute SAP FICO functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management, SAP CoE teams, SAP managed services providers, and related 3rd party application service providers.
Ensure the consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP financial and management accounting applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance, and reference architectures.
Assist in the evaluation of functionality enhancements in SAP FICO upgrades and work with the infrastructure and operations team in managing the roll-out of upgrades.
Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues.
Seek out continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations.
Continually assess the impact of emerging SAP and other IT technologies in the area of expertise against strategic business needs and interpret business value for IT management.
Perform other duties which are deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including, but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies, and procedures.