SAP FICO Consultant

About VertexOne: VertexOne is a fast-growing, innovative company that develops SaaS meter-to-cash solutions for the North American Utility industry in billing, customer service, digital engagement, Electronic Data Interchange, and operational/customer analytics. We provide services for over 400 utilities across the U.S. and Canada.

We are currently seeking a customer-centric, innovative, energetic, and highly motivated full-stack developer to join our Product Software Development and Support Team. The developer is responsible for supporting and producing scalable SaaS solutions. You should have excellent knowledge of the full development life cycle, from conception to deployment, and be familiar with Agile methodologies.

Position Overview: Configure, build, and support SAP ERP application in FICO module. Provide functional design and support for North America based utility clients of VertexOne. Collaborate with the client and NA team members to gather requirements, develop, and deploy solutions

Primary Responsibilities:

FI Responsibility
• Should possess SAP FI (GL & AR/AP Specifically) knowledge for preparation of business blueprints, business process plan (BPP), functional documents, and test cases etc.
• Should have knowledge on the Bank accounting and Asset accounting, Chart of accounts, field status variants, validation & substitution, BTE’s & BADI’s.
• Should have experience in maintaining Field status variants, Fiscal year variant, drilldown reports.
• Experience in configuring financial statement versions, document splitting, AP/AR Master data, interest, payments is required.
• Strong knowledge in New GL, GL Master data, document splitting is desired.
• Hands on experience in Open item processing, interest calculation, down payments, vendor invoice.
• Strong knowledge of AP/AR Master data, automatic and manual payments processing & invoices is mandatory.
• Knowledge in GR/IR clearing process, correspondence (types, programs & forms).

CO Responsibility
• Should have knowledge on Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Contract Accounting, Activity based Cost accounting, Overhead Cost accounting, Reporting under S4 Hana Finance for FICO reports under ECC, S4 Hana Finance under ASAP and Agile methodology.
• Cost Center Accounting - Experience creating new Cost Center hierarchy, groups, planning Cost center allocation of expenses under Assessment and distribution, Statistical key figures.
• Experience implementing Internal Order Planning, settlement, Month end reports.

Consulting Responsibility
• Develop templates and methods to improve the efficiency of application support.
• Gather and prioritizes relevant SAP Business requirements and designing the appropriate solution.
• Understands configuration dependencies and inter-relationships between other modules of SAP such as Materials Management (MM), FI-GL, AA, AR and design plus troubleshoot in the area with this knowledge.
• Should be familiar with the month end and year end closing activities.
• Involvement with FI integration focuses on other SAP-based ERP modules like MM and PM.
• Should have experience and knowledge in S4 HANA FINANCE with new data structure
• Defines test scenarios to cover full scope of the business as well as creating master data and carry out the unit, cycle and integration tests.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Commerce, Chartered Accountant, Master’s in Business Administration or degree in Finance or equivalent degrees.
• At least 5+ years of experience in SAP application
• Should have minimum of one full life-cycle implementation experience
• Should have mature inter-personnel and communication skills, both written and oral

Additional Requirements:
• Exposure to SAP Project Systems (PS) would be preferred
• Working experience in utilities and energy sector would be preferential
• Fluency in written and spoken English, proficiency with MS Visio, Word and Excel, incident management tools.
• Conceptual understanding of relational databases and middleware technology.
• Basic understanding of SaaS, cloud computing.
• Can work under minimum supervision, good time management and work planning