Financial Accounting System Analyst Lead - SAP MM

Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitate IT related projects for the Group and APAC branches that may be assigned from time to time.
• Understand business function and analyse user requirements, make a clear scope of project and build consensus with users (Create ‘Project Management Plan’).
• Lead in analysis and scoping of data sourcing and functional enhancements, functional/application design, functional specification discussion, and obtain users agreements.
• Obtain commitments from all identified stakeholders on creation of project plan and handle of project change management.
• Create project schedule, project activity list and control to keep the schedule and within budget.
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.
• Arrange with users to conduct User Acceptance Test and arrange with vendor (where relevant) to prepare necessary test environment and support functional testing.
• Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans.
• Prepare necessary documents to facilitate and deliver the project (Release checklist, UAT results, etc.).
• Communicate project details and schedules to the Business as required.
• Lead and co-ordinate Go-Live activities, including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
• Ensure that the delivery of assigned projects meet or exceed user expectations.
• Review post implementation issues coming out from project implementation.
• Manages risks and resolve issues for production incidents assigned.
• Manages relationships and coordinate work between different team members, and with developer resources.
• Will need to understand impacts of branches and code merges arising from needs of conflicting projects, change requests, and production incident fixes.
• Will need to closely supervise developer resources’ work, and ensure that quality coding practices and processes have been observed.
• Continually works towards making improvements in the FA team’s processes.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5-10 years of previous project management experience, with exposure to project management best practices/ methodologies/ project lifecycle.
• 5-10 years of supporting SAP ECC6 environment from a functional perspective, with solid understanding of core Finance modules such as Finance and Controlling (FICO) (including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) and Internal Order Management (CO-IO); and Budget Control System (BCS).
• Working knowledge of Material Management (MM), Workflow Management functionalities, Flexible Real Estate (RE-FX) and Asset Accounting (AA) is preferred.
• Working knowledge of SAP ABAP programming language, Control-M schedule, and JIRA issue management tool is preferred.
• Working knowledge of SAP Basis and Oracle databases is preferred.
• Formal training in project management practices preferred.
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills.
• General PC knowledge including Microsoft Office with expert level knowledge of Excel, and working knowledge of MS Access.
• Experience with IT support of Financial Accounting and Procurement business functions is preferred.
• Capability in requirement analysis and functional design skills in an SAP ECC6 environment.