SAP Business Process Consultant (FI, CO, FM, PS)

IBM consulting’s Federal pracitice is seeking an experienced SAP consultant with strong Public Sector knowledge of Financial Management processes and/or experience in SAP S/4HANA solutions. The successful candidate will be responsible for working closely with our clients in leading workshops understanding their business processes and requirements designing and presenting solutions and testing SAP functionality. The primary focus is on reviewing customers’ current business processes systems and solutions and documenting the high-level as-is and to-be processes based on SAP S/4HANA solutions. This role requires a broad understanding of SAP Federal Financial Accounting processes and solutions.

• The Sr. Business Process Functional Consultant facilitates business process workshops to collect business requirements and translate them to system requirements with the ability to identify gaps issues and work-around solutions.

• Supports and/or facilitates workshops to gather and validate business and system requirements relating to SAP Financials

• Identifies business process solutions that enhance the client’s business functionality and overall performance while maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction.

• Identifies business process pain points and provides process improvement feedback.

• Supports the functional and technical teams in designing and configuring SAP S/4HANA solutions to meet customer requirements.

• Designs and creates user stories test scripts and test data needed for solution validation.

• Tests SAP S/4HANA configuration within the FI CO FM PS and other modules.

• Acts as liaison with client for troubleshooting: investigates analyses and solves software problems and maps client business requirements processes and objectives recommends necessary software modifications to satisfy clients’ needs.

At least 3 years of SAP Experience.

• Experience/Exposure to SAP Project Systems Module.

• Exposure/experience in Business Process workshop design and/or facilitation and SAP best practices.

• Experience in public sector financial business process design reengineering and/or configuration and testing of process scenarios.

• At least 1 full lifecycle implementation.

• Ability to facilitate customer discussions and elaborate on the areas of proposed improvements.

• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork facilitation and negotiation.

• Strong written verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to present and discuss strategies and technical information in a manner that establishes rapport persuades others and establishes understanding for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to analyze problems hypothesize proposed solutions and provide clear recommendations.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration Engineering Computer Science or related discipline.

Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM).

• Experience designing and configuring SAP Application areas such as Sales and Distribution (SD) Materials Management (MM) Project Systems (PS) and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).