Sr. SAP Functional Analyst FICO

Summary

The Senior SAP Functional Analyst - FICO / Record-to-Report will serve as a functional expert for SAP Finance capabilities in the global S/4HANA landscape. This role guides solution direction, supports complex design decisions, participates in roadmap priorities, and provides functional guidance across delivery, stabilization, production support, and continuous improvement. The Senior Analyst is expected to understand end-to-end finance processes and the integration points that connect Record-to-Report with adjacent business capabilities. The Functional Analyst are directly responsible for the systems or modules that are in their area and must have the ability to communicate technical solutions to non-technical audiences. Successful candidates will have deep SAP Finance expertise, practical leadership, strong judgment, clear communication, coaching mindset, and ability to drive alignment across complex dependencies. 

This role reports onsite to Simplot HQ (Boise, ID).

Key Responsibilities

• Guide and participate in solution design, configuration strategy, testing, deployment readiness, stabilization, and continuous improvement for assigned area.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Source-to-Pay, Quote-to-Cash, Make-to-Deploy, Forecast-to-Schedule, reporting/analytics, tax, treasury, and relevant non-SAP platforms.
• Partner with IT Product Managers and Business Portfolio Owners to shape roadmaps, prioritize backlogs, define outcomes, identify dependencies, evaluate risks, and support business value realization. 
• Provide production support from escalations, including critical incident triage, root cause analysis, problem management, escalation facilitation, defect resolution, enhancement assessment, and knowledge management. 
• Collaborate with architecture, development, integration, QA, data, security, reporting, AMS, and vendor teams to ensure complete, scalable, secure, and supportable solutions. 
• Communicate complex solution options, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations in a concise and business-readable manner for leadership, product teams, and stakeholders. Utilize agile methodologies for continuous delivery of solutions.  Rapid deployment and validation of solutions components is a must.

Typical Education

Bachelor's Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4 year college or university

Required Qualifications

• 7+ Years of experience as an SAP Functional Analyst or comparable role supporting SAP FICO / Finance capabilities.
• Strong hands-on experience of the new Fiori tools and S/4HANA environments (1809,1909,2020).
• Deep understanding of finance processes such as general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, asset accounting, controlling, profit center accounting, cost center accounting, financial close, or related Record-to-Report capabilities. 
• Good understanding of various integration patterns between SAP products and non-SAP Products and when to utilize these patterns when enabling a business process is preferred.
• Good understanding of the development lifecycle utilization of SAP Solution Manager and how it will be utilized in a Dev/Ops environment is preferred.
• Experience working in agile, product delivery, DevOps, or hybrid delivery models using structured backlog, sprint, release, and governance practices. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical and functional complexity into clear business language. 
• Understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban is preferred.
• Understanding of SAP S4 HANA Universal Journal (ACDOCA), New General Ledger, Ledgers and Extension Ledgers, Parallel Accounting (US GAAP, IFRS, Local GAAP), Profit Center Accounting, Segment Reporting, Real-time integration between FI and CO, Group Reporting and Financial Consolidation
• Deep SAP Finance expertise, practical leadership, strong judgment, clear communication, coaching mindset, and ability to drive alignment across complex dependencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extra Consideration will be given to those candidates with experience in Treasury, Tax, OpenText VIM, Central Finance.
• Ability to write functional specs and design custom objects for business specific requirements and work with development teams.
• Overall working knowledge of various ecosystems that connect with SAP S4 HANA business Suite
• Knowledge of SAP Accounts Payable processes including vendor invoice management, payment processing, withholding tax, duplicate invoice prevention, exception handling, and integration with OpenText VIM. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of Treasury and Cash Management processes including bank account management, electronic bank statement processing, cash positioning, liquidity planning, payment approvals, and interfaces with banking platforms. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Knowledge of SAP Tax configuration and processes including indirect tax (VAT/GST), withholding tax, sales and use tax determination, tax reporting requirements, and integration with third-party tax engines. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of finance controls and compliance requirements associated with vendor payments, tax reporting, bank reconciliations, segregation of duties, and audit support. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes and key finance integration points between Materials Management (MM), Accounts Payable, OpenText VIM, Treasury, Tax, and General Ledger accounting. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Knowledge of automatic account determination, financial posting logic, document splitting, parallel ledgers, and financial impact resulting from upstream procurement, logistics, and inventory transactions. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of intercompany accounting processes, intercompany vendor transactions, cross-company payments, and the resulting impacts to financial consolidation and reporting. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of SAP Central Finance architecture, including source-to-target data replication, financial document harmonization, master data governance, mapping frameworks, and financial reporting consolidation. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Knowledge of Central Finance integration touchpoints across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, non-SAP ERP systems, SLT replication, AIF monitoring, and financial reconciliation processes. (Nice to have but not mandatory)
• Understanding of migration and transformation concepts related to finance process standardization, chart of accounts harmonization, business partner adoption, and enterprise reporting requirements. (Nice to have but not mandatory)