Senior SAP FICO Solutions Architect

Description

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

It’s Day 1 for Amazon’s next billion dollar business and we are looking for a Sr SAP FICO Solutions Architect to work in a start-up environment.
As the FI & CO expert, possess both the functional & technical background and that enables them to work with technology and a demonstrated ability to think broadly and strategically about Amazon Leo initiatives. They will experience a wide range of problem-solving situations requiring an understanding of business process and SAP configuration expertise. And able to design solutions, enhance and production support. Work closely with other SAP functional while designing and/or enhancement and support of these systems which is critical for scalability and cost-effective manufacturing of satellites and ground gateway terminals. To be successful you need to be highly motivated, detail oriented and effective communicator.

Key job responsibilities
- Build SAP Finance based product vision and solutions
 - Ability to identify and implement best practices to optimize business processes using SAP and championing for utility/intuitiveness/simplicity of process/product
 - Conduct Blueprint workshops, fit-gap analysis and produce detailed design documents reasoning from core needs, reasoning from core needs, challenging assumptions
 - Identify change management and training needs, support creating training documentation and lead train the trainer sessions for Product changes
 - Participate in strategic planning, roadmap discussions for SAP finance solutions including contributions to Amazon 1yr-3yr annual planning
 - Manage quarter planning, sprint planning, deployment for product feature enhancements bringing in business value, business impact and reasoning.
 - Defining critical metrics including - success metrics, product adoption, data driven insights into product improvement
 - Prepare product design, functional specifications, configure, test and support implementation for all SAP RICEFW areas
 - Build and support integration with cross-workstream processes - SAP PP, EWM, MM, SAP MES system
 - Support SAP Production system for ticket resolutions, business support needs, understanding product improvement opportunities
 - Team player, ready to share and contribute to collective success of the team

Manage a portfolio of projects related to SAP FICO module from design to deployment including integration with Amazon Corporate systems.
Build deployment project plans and manage risks impacting successful delivery.
Develop use cases by gathering business requirements, work with software development to build required features, clearly communicate dependencies and manage/track exceptions.
Participate and build Proof of Concepts (POCs) to ensure proposed solution can meet business requirements using SAP S/4.
Active participation in Unit Test, System Integration Test, User Acceptance Test, and User Training.
Apply strong knowledge of the business processes for designing, developing, and testing SAP S/4 HANA ERP functionality, which includes expertise in general ledger, accounts payable, project system, cost center accounting, product costing and profit center accounting.
Configure SAP S/4 HANA FICO to meet business requirements, including connection points with PP, MM, PS, & SD and other modules and implementation of SAP best practices.
Have an ability to navigate through a large amount of ambiguity and drive consensus between cross-functional stakeholder groups.

A day in the life
Gather requirement from Finance, Accounting & Tax teams and Collaborate with other functional teams for HLD design and configure SAP to business requirement with validate & user trainings.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in a technical field
- 6+ years of implementing and managing SAP ERP solutions, with a strong focus on SAP S/4HANA experience
- 3+ years experience in analyzing, creating system specifications, and developing tests and implementing business solutions utilizing SAP Finance
- Hands-on experience with SAP FI modules (Finance, Controlling, Asset management).
- 6+ years of SAP experience with Delivery of an end-to-end design and implementation as the main focus
- Strong understanding of financial and Accounting business processed and requirements.
- Strong understanding of core financial processes: General Ledger (GL), Project System, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Month-end and year-end close process
- Knowledge of integration points between FI and other SAP modules such as MM and PP
- Ability to analyze financial data, perform reconciliation and troubleshoot transactional issues
- Experience working with cross-functional team including Finance and Supply Chain
- Strong problem solving and communication detail

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent
- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience with integrations with SAP Procurement, Manufacturing and Inventory Management
- Experience with SAP S/4 HANA with RISE
- Comprehensive understanding of custom development approach and integration strategy from both a technical and functional perspective
- Knowledge of reporting tools (e.g., SAP Fiori embedded analytics or BI tools)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.