SAP S/4 Group Reporting Lead

Requirements recording, concept development and solution implementation of the group reporting system

Technical & Process:

• Tailor-made development of business concepts in cooperation with the specialist departments
• Coordinated implementation of these specialist concepts/business concepts in IT concepts
• System-side implementation of the developed IT concepts (if necessary, with the support of external consultants)
• Analysis and evaluation of technical and business problems during the reporting process
• Permanent optimization of processes and application parts
• Individual transfer of application know-how
• Coordination and control of internal and external project employees
• Subject-specific cooperation with SAP on system issues (OSS messages; Workshops)
• Provides technical guidance and support to clients for complex tasks during the implementation, operation and decommissioning of new systems.
• Joins on request the actions and processes of day-to-day management of the information system in place in all its dimensions
• Ensures documentation is in line with the overall technical and process needs

Project & Methodology:

• Participation in the project management of large IT projects by coordinating, planning and estimating workpackages
• Analyzes customer needs, recognizes the critical elements of highly complex application problems, determines innovative solutions, and makes logical recommendations for complex project/ solution development and implementation
• Researches, acquires knowledge and expertise on system or solution upgrades, and stays up-to-date on the latest technology trends and advancements.
• Conceptualizes technical design for new functionalities or installation of new technologies.

Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement:

• Ensuring professional group reporting system administration as well as application maintenance
• Validation of structural customizing settings (e.g. eliminations; Capital consolidation) taking into account the overall context Master data maintenance in the system after coordination of the order grids with the specialist departments (e.g. organizational changes)
• Establishes the quality of technical deliverables and conducts work reviews, unit testing and ensuring compliance with coding or work standards and best practices and ensures a common quality understanding
• Designs, implements and sustains the quality criteria and quality processes for our IT services.
• Acts as primary technical expert and be able to recommend appropriate IT solutions or process changes by ensuring product quality in the assigned area following enterprise- defined risk management policies and procedures and achievement of quality targets
• Drives service improvements within own service area and makes service improvement proposals for related service areas

Training, Guidance and Knowledge Transfer:

• Securing the transfer of know-how within the framework of international Group Reporting training courses for all user classes
• Conception and preparation of user training courses as well as training documents
• Implementation of user training courses (face-to-face events; meetings)

Financial (Budget responsibility/control/etc):

• Management of the external consultants involved in the project in the area of group reporting hotline and system administration
• Budget planning for the external consultants, ongoing review of cost developments, technical approval of the performance records of the consulting firms
• Coordination of the external consultants
• Involved in the Group Reporting project Responsibility for deployment planning
• Contributes and supports decisions towards administration of cost efficiencies on onshore/offshore project work of the team.
• Supports policies that help achieve overall budget sufficiency.