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Date: May 18, 2020
Primary Location: Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 42910
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Position Specific Description
Our IT team is searching for a Sr. FICO Functional candidate who can work on small to medium project independently. This role involves heavy interaction a team of business representatives or liaisons for requirement gathering, prioritize work, develop enhancements to the existing system, coordinate testing, and perform change management / training and design. You will provide technical direction on projects to department or project participants. You will also maintain thorough knowledge of new development and/or technology pertaining to project(s) and recommends changes for improvement, and provide formalized, continuing work direction, and knowledge transfer to more junior FI/CO team personnel to ensure timely and effective project execution.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Provide SAP ECC FI/CO functional expertise on projects to ensure timely and effective project execution.
- Assist with planning, design, configuration, testing, and production release on financial projects which typically involve and impact multiple business areas.
- Interact with a team of business representatives or liaisons to gather requirements, prioritize work, develop enhancements, coordinate testing, and perform change management.
- Conduct SAP functional training for business users.
- Work closely with development teams both onshore and offshore providing detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines.
- Plan and manage assigned work activities, complete projects on time and on budget following Agile development methodology
- Conduct SAP functional training for business users.
- Maintain thorough knowledge of new development and/or technology pertaining to project(s) in the SAP ECC FI/CO space
Highly Desired Experience and Education:
- Bachelor's – Sciences or Accounting. A CPA and / or MBA is a plus.
- Minimum 5 years of SAP FICO functional experience in FICO core modules including GL/AP/AR/Banking/AA/CCA/PCA/PS.
- Must have at least 2-3 full life cycle SAP ERP implementations.
- At least 3-5 years’ extensive configuration experience in supporting existing SAP Systems (ECC 6.0).
- 3-5 years of experience configuring SAP FICO modules: FI-GL, CCA, AP, AR, TR/Banks, SPL, Month End processing (Settlements/Overheads/Assessments)
- Experience in Asset management module is required.
- Strong Experience in integration with other SAP modules including Materials Management and Sale and Distribution.
- Experience in SAP integration with external Tax Software Sabrix.
- Experience with ReadSoft/Kofax is strongly desired.
- Experience implementing ECC to S4 projects is strongly preferred.
- Experience in interfaces from Work Management Systems, other Financial Systems (Phoenix, PowerPlan, UI Planner) is desired.
- Experience with the Agile development methodology and tools such as Atlassian Jira software is preferred.
Employees in this role are responsible for specification and configuration of SAP application enhancements and proactive identification of opportunities to use SAP functionality to better support business processes, along with providing end-user support. Individuals will work with project managers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Managers, and information technology and business representatives to keep abreast of operational issues, initiatives and strategies with a potential SAP impact.
• Possesses a strong familiarity with business processes that are in their area of business focus
• Establishes and manages effective customer relationships with users of business, financial and operations systems as well as technical team members
• Applies advanced analytical skills within functional area to decompose work into manageable value-based units
• Responds to requests, identifies conflicts, and make recommendations where needed
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems
• Uses knowledge of business processes to identify interdependencies and functional gaps
• Builds strong working understanding of the technical solution being delivered and can analyze and determine failure points in the solution
• Contributes to the application testing process directly and in support of end users
• Creates and updates documentation, as appropriate for selected project framework
• Maintains a familiarity with market trends in technology
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned
• High School Grad / GED
• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience: 5+ years
• None
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: Florida Power & Light Company
Location: Juno Beach, Florida
Other Work Locations: Florida
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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