Becton Dickinson

Global medical devices, lab equipment supplier

A2 Integration Analyst

Financial AccountingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeJohannesburg, South AfricaNo salary listedIn-person

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Responsibilities

Walk through the new financial process flow in the S4Hana environment with support from the A2 project team and GL COE team.
Share the process flow with the local finance team to ensure all checking and control points are in place in the new system.
Support the GL COE and EU consolidation team in developing a robust month-end close process, including the month-end schedule, to ensure proper consolidation of data from both S4Hana and ECC at the legal entity level and an integrated entity sign-off process.
Coordinate a robust month-end review process across multiple SAP systems to facilitate reviews with country controllers and country BP&A partners.
Map key subprocesses managed by the local finance team, such as tax and transfer pricing computation and accruals, and ensure all entities have the knowledge and tools to update their templates before day-one implementation.
Coordinate and map key changes affecting statutory accounts with A2 W1 implementation, including trial balances from two systems, subprocess changes, control-environment changes, and legal entity integration implications for year-over-year comparison, and incorporate these changes into statutory audit planning.
Identify areas to prioritize on standard templates and share best practices across the region for statutory accounts.
Coordinate with the compliance and internal audit teams to ensure all entities comply with key controls in S4Hana.
Reassess the threshold of SOX controls by entity after legal entity integration and implement an action plan for any scope changes.
Identify S4Hana super users within EFCOE and organize internal training to bring the team up to speed.
Leverage super-user groups to explore advanced analysis and reporting tools in S4Hana and optimize existing reporting processes where possible.
Coordinate with country finance teams to ensure a plan and sufficient resources are in place for JDE closing procedures and post-day-one reconciliation, alongside day-to-day operations and additional work such as interim audits due to legal entity integration.
Support country finance teams through the first few months of month-end close and the first year-end close in S4Hana, including during a holiday season.
Collect feedback from S4Hana users and communicate enhancement ideas to the A2 team.
Develop a plan for W2 preparation from the local finance perspective, including further integration of external systems and larger-scale change management around front-end processes.

Job Description

Walk through new financial process flow in S4Hana environment with support of A2 project team and GL COE team. Share the process flow with local finance team to ensure all checking/ control points are taking in place in the new system.Support GL COE and EU consolidation team to work on a robust ME close process (incl. ME schedule) to ensure proper consolidation of data from both S4Hana and ECC system at legal entity level and an integrated process in place for entity sign offCoordinate a robust ME review process with the complexity of multiple SAP systems to facilitate review with country controllers & BP&A country partnersMap out key sub-processes managed by local finance team (eg: tax and TP computation, accruals) and ensure all entities have the knowledge & tools to update their own templates before day 1 implementationCoordinate and map out key changes that will have an impact on stat account with A2 W1 implementation (eg: TB from two systems, sub process changes, control environment changes, LEI implication on YOY comparison) and incorporate the changes in the statutory audit planning processIdentify areas that we should prioritise on standard templates and share best practice across the region when it comes to statutory accountCoordinate with compliance team and internal audit team to ensure we're compliant in S4Hana for all entities when it comes to key controls. Also reassess the threshold of SOX control by entity post LEI and implement action plan if there's any scope changeIdentify super users of S4Hana within EFCOE and organise internal training to bring the whole team up to speed with S4Hana. Leverage super user groups to explore advanced analysis/ reporting tool in S4Hana and optimising existing reporting process where possibleCoordinate with country finance team to ensure we have a plan and enough resources to carry out JDE closing procedures and post day 1 reconciliation on top of day to day operations, as well as any additional work (eg: interim audit) due to LEI.Provide support to country finance team to successfully go through first few months' ME close and first YE close in S4Hana especially during a holiday season.Collect feedback from S4Hana users and communicate enhancement ideas to A2 teamPut together a plan for W2 preparation from Local Finance perspective with further integration of external systems and larger scale of change management around front end processes.

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Becton Dickinson

Global medical devices, lab equipment supplier

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is a global medical technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells medical devices, laboratory equipment, and related services for hospitals, labs, clinicians, and biopharma partners. It operates in four segments: Medical Essentials (medication delivery and specimen management devices), Connected Care (medication management and advanced patient monitoring systems), BioPharma Systems (drug delivery systems for pharmaceutical partners), and Interventional (surgical, endovascular, urological, and critical care products). In addition to devices, BD offers connected software, analytics, clinical education, customer portals, and service programs to support its products. The company’s goal is to help healthcare providers improve patient outcomes by enabling safer and more efficient delivery of care through integrated devices, data, and services across the health ecosystem.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Franklin Lakes, NJ
Founded: 1961

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