Sap Fico Consultant

About the job

What We Offer

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Group Summary

Magna is more than one of the worlds largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are a mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global, entrepreneurial-minded team. With 65+ years of expertise, our ecosystem of interconnected products combined with our complete vehicle expertise uniquely positions us to advance mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.

Job Responsibilities

This position needs an analytical, well-educated, knowledgeable, and motivated team-player with strong FICO background, work ethic and integrity that will become a key part of “Global IT” to implement and provide adequate, 24x7 support for FICO (Finance and Controlling). Providing daily support to Magna divisions/plants, especially Americas region. Needs to discuss with users, host workshops, define optional solutions, and be able to initiate FICO improvement projects, implement it, and manage project status/schedule is also required.

Major Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements and gaps not met by the existing systems / implementations.
• Identify feasible solutions within SAP framework and estimate effort needed to meet those business requirements and gaps.
• Implement solutions using SAP configuration, master data setup or code and support roll-out projects.
• Provide day-to-day SAP end-user support including month end closing.
• Provide user training to group/divisions.
• Create a positive work environment by demonstrating and sharing functional/technical knowledge.
• Complete other duties as required by the Manager from time to time.
• Effectively uses teamwork to positively contribute to a high morale/high-performance team culture, consulting attitude and strong personal integrity.
• He/she ensures global support.
• Perform a complete, detailed needs analysis evaluating available applications and identifying opportunities for enhancing existing systems.
• Assist in the coordination and collaboration of external consultants (Customer & Suppliers) as well as internal team members.
• Time tracking and documentation according to Magna Global IT standards.
• Ensures billing of his/her projects and changes.
• Design practical, creative, conceptual technical solutions for business requirements balancing appropriate technology, cost and implementation timeline.
• Develop and adhere to standards for design, coding, testing, change control, code deployment, software controls, configuration management, continuous integration, and troubleshooting and root cause analysis of application problems.
  
  

Performance Measures

• Project Management (In time, in quality, In budget) proper documentation and reporting.
• SLA (Service level Agreement) fulfillment to the divisions.
• Less problem and escalations.
• Project time should be more than 30%.
• Support new SAP Implementations.
  
  

Knowledge and Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or similar discipline.
• Excellent English language skills (written and verbal).
• Experience in Automotive Industry is preferred.
  
  

Work Experience

• More than 5 years of SAP FICO-related experience.
  
  

Skills And Competencies

• Experience of SAP full cycle project as a FICO consultant.
• Basic finance and controlling concepts knowledge are must.
• Familiar with finance accounting submodules, have experience of data migration methodology, such as fixed asset migration, G/L master data migration, and inventory migration, etc.
• Able to configure and support FICO module in SAP.
• Product costing knowledge is required.
• Profitability Analysis knowledge is required.
• Familiar with FICO integration with other SAP modules such as material management, sales and distribution.
• Experience of China localization is preferred, GTS, reporting is desired if working for Asia Pacific region.
• Experience of FICO validation and substitution or enhancements is required.
• Payment interface with bank is desired.
• Material Ledger and Project Systems skill will be a plus.
• ABAP debug skill is a plus.
• Review and work up development requests & specs for ABAP programmers to develop customized functionality or reports to meet business requirements.
• Knowledge of Business Warehouse (BW) is preferred.
• Analytical and flexible approaches in the projects and coordination of available resources.
• Excellent performance and organizational skills.
• Must be able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload.
• Able to collaborate with users and have a strong desire to host workshops.
• Good communication and customer service skills.