Applications Lead

Description:

As the Applications Lead - ABAP & FICO you will play a key role in one or many workstreams in the program to implement S/4HANA solutions for Element Mexico and CEI. The lead will assist and guide the support teams to maintain and enhance the solution for Corporate and Element US & CA.

After acquiring functional expertise, the lead will be expected to work with the business teams to understand the growing needs of the business to provide options and solutions for achieving the outcome. The lead will be responsible for supervising the execution of the approved solutions. This work directly influences the application of cash paid by clients towards their invoices, payment to vendors and overall financial results of the company.

A Day in the Life

• Create/review functional specification documents, prepare/review technical specification documents (TSD) and implement/enhance SAP FICO solutions.

• Assist with the legacy data migration activities including but not limited to Customer, Vendor master, Open Items for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger and Controlling data.

• Work with the System Integrator and Data integration to implement RICEFW objects.

• Assist in testing activities.

• Lead the project team in hyper care activities.

• Assist with the cutover activities for major releases.

• Help in the coordination of knowledge transfer to IT staff

• Configuration of SAP FICO modules (General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP) – direct and indirect sourcing, Accounts Receivable (AR), Banking, Cost Centre Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting (PCA), Cash & Bank, Asset accounting, etc.,) based on business requirements.

• Review TSDs, code and test results for PEERs (small enhancements)

• Responsible for Unit/ functional testing, SIT, and work with business for UAT.

• Be the point of contact for major upgrades to plan, review and assess the functions that were deprecated/enhanced, deleted, and do thorough testing post upgrades.

• Researches and recommends enhancements of SAP functional areas including the use and integration of cloud products (such as Blackline, Vertex tax solution, Ariba, Concur, Onestream, etc.)

• Defect Management (configuration, RICEFW, ABAP, etc.) – in partnership with System Integrator and Data Integrator, triage, troubleshoot and solution defects

• Lead the AMS team for production issues in the FICO modules. Work with the application team and provide necessary inputs and support to validate the changes when there is a change.

• Embrace best practices and provide design guidance to the development team and collaborate with the Element application team, and our professional services partners (onshore & offshore). Should be accountable for reviewing and signing off all the configuration and RICEFW changes that go live.

• Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support for SAP

• Address major incidents, problem tickets, root cause analysis and problem tasks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required with a strong academic record in Software engineering or related Engineering disciplines.

• 5+ years of progressive work experience working hands-on with SAP ABAP

• Should have hands-on experience in developing RICEFWs and good knowledge of IDOCS

• Hands-on experience in creating architecture documentation, and functional/technical specification documentation.

• Experience in working with North American businesses/clients

• Experience in working on functional areas of FI and CO modules - General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Banking, Cost Centre Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting (PCA), and Asset Accounting.

• Experience in integration and interfacing with large-scale IT systems

• Beginner proficiency in SAP BTP/CPI