Senior Product Expert Finance SAP Americas

Airgas•Radnor, PA

1d•$120,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

Airgas is seeking a Senior Product Expert Finance SAP Americas to join their team. This role requires deep functional and/or technical expertise in the SAP Finance module, focusing on design, development, and maintenance. The Product Expert will be responsible for gathering and clarifying business requirements, defining stories, and providing technical guidance. They will act as a subject matter expert for SAP FICO modules, eliciting requirements through various methods, critically evaluating information, and translating customer needs into application requirements. Collaboration with developers and subject matter experts is key to establishing the technical vision and analyzing trade-offs. The role involves implementing and deploying SAP template solutions for finance and controlling components, owning the design, documentation, and implementation of processes, and initiating continuous improvement activities. Collaboration with Product Managers on technical feasibility and defining necessary tests are also crucial aspects of this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and/or Business Administration or Equivalent
SAP S/4 HANA Finance & Controlling (FI/CO)
Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Cost Object Controlling, COPA (Margin Analysis), Allocations & Assessments, and Settlement Processes
Core Finance: General Ledger, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Financial Closing, Intercompany Processing, Document Splitting, Parallel Ledgers, Universal Journal
8+ years of experience implementing SAP products, including experience with S/4 HANA
8+ years of hands-on experience in configuring SAP FI/CO solutions
8 years of business and functional requirements analysis experience
Experience with troubleshooting and debugging complex integrated applications.
Extensive experience as a team member on medium to large SAP initiatives
Experience in leading key activities/projects involving cross functional teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with customizations and specific configurations

Responsibilities

Act as the subject matter expert to projects on SAP FICO functional modules
Elicit requirements using interviews, process reviews, shadowing, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits, business process descriptions, task & workflow analysis.
Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, identify, and close gaps, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and SAP functional requirements and deliver appropriate artefacts on standard templates, including but not limited to Process Flows, Technical Design, Solution Design, User Stories, Use Cases, GUI Screen and Interface designs.
Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability, functionality and performance needs.
Implement and deploy SAP template solution to achieve defined business goals to design, maintain, deploy solution for Finance and controlling components and cross functional components such as production planning, procurement etc.
Owns and manages the design, documentation and implementation of processes and process improvements in conjunction with process owners, Super Users, SAP functional specialists and third-party as part of the SAP CoE.
Initiates continuous improvements activities to increase the efficiency of the business information systems and meet global business objectives.
Collaborate on technical feasibility: Work closely with Product Managers to ensure that product features are technically feasible and sustainable within given timelines.
Define required functional, performance, security and compatibility tests to ensure all is working after integration of the product to systems
Orchestrate and plan system demos and tests