Functional Finance Subject Matter Expert

cBEYONData is seeking a Functional Financial Management Solution Architect to support activities related to ERP modernization as part of a larger Army ERP transition and convergence. The Functional SME will work closely with a functional team and system engineers to analyze complex business processes and functional requirements with the goal of translating requirements into documents, help technical staff understand requirements, support business process reengineering workshops, and review the developed system to confirm requirements were met.

Note: Telework is acceptable under current government policies. Telework or a remote location will be acceptable with occasional requirements to travel to client offices at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and other Army locations.

Responsibilities:

• Support business process reengineering (BPR) workshops to translate functional requirements into technical requirements which will be provided to a system integration contractor
• Rationalizing and harmonizing current General fund and Working capital divergent end-to-end business processes to facilitate convergence
• Support the development of key acquisition and contracting documents to develop the Enterprise Business System – Convergence (EBS-C) Solutions (e.g., Performance Work Statement (PWS), Statement of Objectives (SOO), Statement of Work (SOW))
• Work closely with the functional requirements team to help prioritize and group requirements into work packages supporting a government capability implementation plan
• Serve as a Solution Architect / Subject Matter Expert to guide and integrate diverse stakeholder requirements into a holistic technical requirement
• Support the development of user stories based on deep understanding of Agile development principles and in alignment to functional epics and features
• Provide feedback to data architecture resources to ensure integrity and consistency between application best practices and enterprise data models
• Work with solution architects, functional and programmatic offices, system integrators, and stakeholders to communicate and advocate for proper understanding of requirements and prototype solutions
• Perform validation of system integrator configuration of EBS-C solution to safeguard and minimize against customizations of core SAP products

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Active Secret clearance
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience with Defense business systems or ERP software/system development projects
• 10+ years’ experience specializing in financial management processes
• 6 years operating as a functional expert, consulting, designing, implementing, or contributing to SAP based ERP process or system improvements.
• Experience and/or training with SAP S4/HANA
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas:
  • Guidelines, principles, processes, and systems associated with the Army’s Program Planning and Budget Execution (PPBE) process, such as the budget formulation and administration, the Program Objective Memorandum (POM) cycle, Program Optimization and Budget Evaluation (PROBE), and Project Management Resource Tool (PMRT)
  • Army financial business processes, integration and reconciliation within GFEBS; business process to include but not limited to Foreign Military Sales (FMS), Foreign National Pay, US Civilian Payroll, Army Joint Reconciliation Process (JRP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Reimbursables and Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPRs).
  • Army Logistics Processes such as, inventory, warehouse management, supply chain management, maintenance, transportation management, etc.
  • Understanding of relevant Army End-to-End (E2E) business processes and knowledge of how those processes work within current Army ERP systems, specifically the General Fund Enterprise Business Systems (GFEBS), Logistics Modernization Program (LMP), Global Combat Support System (GCSS-Army).
  • SAP ECC functional experience; specifically, implementing best practices and capabilities of one or more of following modules; Asset Management, Audit Management, Cost Management (CM), Controlling (CO), Financial Accounting (FI), Funds Management (FM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Special Purpose Ledger (Federal Ledger), Treasury (TR)

Preferred requirements:

• Master’s degree
• Agile certification
• S4/HANA Financial implementation, business partner master data management changes, and beta release and test support experience