Senior SAP FPSL Configuration Engineer

Liberty Mutual Insurance•Boston, MA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

We deliver our customers peace of mind every day by helping them protect what they value most. Our passion for placing the customer at the center of everything we do is driving a transformational shift at Liberty Mutual. Operating as a tech startup within a Fortune 100 company, we are leading a digital disruption that will redefine how people experience insurance. This role has a hybrid work schedule (2 days onsite) for candidates based within the 50 miles radius of Portsmouth, NH, Boston, MA, Plano, TX, Indianapolis, IN and Columbus, OH office locations. Job Introduction: The Global Finance Technology organization is looking to hire an experienced Senior SAP FPSL Configuration Engineer to their Data Subledger team within the OneGL program. Under limited supervision, this individual would be responsible for developing, configuring, integrating, and optimizing new and existing use cases within SAP FPSL (Financial Products Subledger). This candidate will support production users and configure, test, and train to support maintenance and enhancement of the OneGL finance environment supporting the financial month-end close process. Responsibilities include modifying, testing, data analysis, debugging, maintaining, integrating, and enhancing existing modules.

Requirements

Bachelor or Master`s degree in technical or business discipline or equivalent experience.
Minimum 5+ years of Techno- Functional SAP Finance experience.
Minimum 1-3+ years of hands-on FPSL experience (design, implementation, and integration).
Strong technical skills including data processing frameworks, ETL tools, SQL, Python, APIs, and large-scale system integration.
Strong understanding of SAP architecture and components: SAP S4/HANA, FIORI, PaPM, Reporting (e.g., SAC Analytics for Office), and SAP Finance touchpoints to other SAP modules (and SAP finance integration with the general ledger).
Candidates are required to demonstrate proficiency in SDL (Source Data Layer), RDL (Result Data Layer), and DLL (Data Load Layer).
Must have experience with CVPM (Calculation and Valuation Process Manager).
Hands on experience in the setup and configuration of master data (contracts), flow data characteristics, business transactions (events), account determination, and derivation rules.
Strong understanding of financial transactional flow, SAP general ledger concepts such as company codes, chart of accounts, accounting entries, coding blocks, profit centers, cost centers, ledgers, currencies, etc.
Experience working with multiple GAAP-based accounting systems and reconciling from subledger to GL (General Ledger).
Hands on experience in subledger accounting configuration and performing manual journal postings.
Prior experience in BCF (Balance Carry Forward) and exposure to FX Reval process.
Strong understanding of finance business processes and ability to map business requirements to standard SAP processes with minimal or no customization.
Strong communication with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders with a proven track record of collaboration across multiple organizations, business partners, and stakeholders.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to work with ambiguous and incomplete information.
Good understanding of agile software development concepts and processes including backlog tracking, prioritization, strong collaboration within a scrum team, and adaptability through incremental delivery.
Must be proactive, demonstrate initiative and be a logical thinker, have extensive consultative skills, including the ability to understand and apply customer requirements, including drawing out unforeseen implications and making recommendations for design, the ability to define design reasoning, understanding potential impacts of design requirements.
Strong negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills.
Experience providing production support including troubleshooting issues, requirements gathering and solution design for enhancement requests, as well as implementing the solution via configuration, etc.

Nice To Haves

Experience within the Insurance or Finance industry is preferred.
IFRS17 experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Configures modules according to defined design specs & demonstrates a highly proficient understanding of transactions and major configuration options for business processes.
Identifies and coordinates the interdependencies within modules to ensure development activities are positively impacted.
Leads initiatives to improve performance, scalability, and maintainability of FPSL and related systems, ensuring high availability and resilience.
Supports testing cycles, develops complex test scripts, and assists coordinating test transactional data creation.
Identifies and researches complex testing and configuration defects in FPSL.
Identifies designs for functional and technical requirements (e.g., gap analysis, infrastructure, interfaces, reports, enhancements, and/or conversions).
Documents architecture development and standards.
Identifies design elements of new business processes and package application design.
Uses testing tools successfully and documents test results for components within modules or business processes within a mixed team.
Identifies process improvements that address complex functional and package technology gaps within business processes.
Analyzes and prepares complex technology enabled recommendations to address gaps within business processes.
Supports pieces of the implementation process such as post implementation support, cutover plans, and transition planning.
Other duties and projects as assigned.