SME Finance And Controlling Applications

Are you looking for an in-house SAP consultancy role where you can take full ownership of the Finance & Controlling domain while working on diverse and impactful projects? Do you enjoy getting hands-on with SAP, diving into complex challenges, and driving real change? If you have strong expertise in SAP and thrive in a role with broad responsibilities, this might be the perfect opportunity for you!  

The great part about this role is that you have an impactful and value-added role in our IT team. You have a broad responsibility and if you like to have a varied and unique job where you can dive into different roles of a project such as - project manager, business consultant, system configurator, test coordinator, trainer, steerco member and member of first level support team during go-live and hyper care – this is a wonderful match for you. You will be in close contact with various international stakeholders in our local business units and at our headquarters.  

We are looking for a new valued and entrepreneurial colleague as our:  

SAP FICO Consultant 

In this role you act as an internal consultant and take full ownership of a certain application, in this case that is Finance & Controlling. You are fully responsible for incidents, changes, and projects related to this application as you have a very deep knowledge of the processes and systems involved. For this you need to keep your applications up to date, working closely with the basis team to install relevant updates. On productive systems, you are the one to guide and instruct the business on master data maintenance and housekeeping activities. On test systems, you take full ownership, always ready to conduct an end-to-end test, training, or demo session. You keep yourself trained and informed on the novelties in your area of expertise and you are aware and consulted of business trends within Refresco, so that you can anticipate requirements.  

 You will be part of the dynamic and diverse Central IT team for Europe together with 40 colleagues, divided into 4 functional teams: Core Applications, Infrastructure & Networking, Enterprise Data Management, and Portfolio Management.  The team of Core Applications has SAP Consultants in a wide range of functional domains and is a multicultural team of close to 20 colleagues. You will report into the Team Lead, Finance & Procurement Applications.  

The position 

• You are responsible for incident solving. You may have an outsourced AMS team (L1 and L2) reporting to you, so you do not need to solve incidents personally in most cases.   
• You aim for optimal user satisfaction, ensure SLA compliance, use problem management tools to reduce repetitive incidents, implement preventive measures, and organize and participate in escalation calls when required.  
• You are co-responsible for change requests and improvements. You have a European Business Process Owner as counterpart, together with whom you receive and analyse business requirements.   
• You are responsible for the delivery of:  receiving and analyse business requirements, offering to use standard SAP solutions or to reuse existing features when possible. 
• Produce functional specification documents, including impact analysis, test instructions and permission concept. 
• The system configuration (SPRO) is your responsibility. You may do it yourself or delegate it to an external partner. 
• Work together with the development team in technical specifications. You are not expected to write code yourself. 
• When changes are ready, you conduct a unit test. 
• Process flows, procedure manuals and similar documents need to be updated after every change. Although you are not responsible for those documents yourself, you contribute by hand over the relevant information to the business process owners. 
• Business users conduct the UAT. You validate their test results. 
• A change cycle ends only when the improvement is productive and the functionality is confirmed. 
• You follow up changes until you get a positive confirmation from the business. 
• Contributing to various projects.  

About you  

We’re looking for a knowledgeable, curious and committed SAP Consultant with the following qualifications and attributes:  

• You have a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information systems, Business, or other fields related to the role, or equivalent experience.  
  

• You have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as SAP FICO consultant. 
  

• Hands-on experience in SAP S/4HANA customizing and configuration.  
  

• Experience with cross functional subjects with core SAP modules.  
  

• Understanding of ABAP and ability to debug code.  
  

• Experience with EDI and integration.  
  

• Fluent English, additional European language preferred.  
  

• Solid communication, negotiation, presentation, and interpersonal skills.  
  

• FMCG experience preferred.  
  

• Familiarity with ITIL is preferred.   
  

• And most importantly, you are fun to work with!  
  

We are the creator of drinks. We take great pride in creating world-class beverages, partnering with top retailers and brands across Europe, North America, and Australia to produce drinks that you love/you know/drink every day.  

 Do you want to see your drinks on every table? Do you want to join our exciting journey?   

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