Title: Sr. Finance Consultant/Architect

Location: San Jose, CA, 95134

Duration: 8 Months (With Good Chance of Extension)

Job Description:

Job Title: Sr. Finance Consultant/Architect

Key Responsibilities:
Expertise in architecting and driving custom reports like Financial Statements, Cash Flow and profit and loss reports.
Designing, implementing, and supporting complex business processes in an SAP environment
Designing, building, testing, and deploying SAP FICO technical solutions, emphasizing RICEFs (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, Forms) design
Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients, and stakeholders to build trust.
Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realizes they are required.
Coordinating and liaison with the other cross functional Workstreams, Strategic Integration Vendors, SME's, Communities of Practice's, IT Solution Architects/COE and Stakeholders across the network to develop a strong and deep pool of expertise across Finance processes and Applications.
Liaise with the SMEs to develop training plans for each of the key Applications to enhance the knowledge base across the Finance Domain
Identify System enhancements, including reports, setting system targets, preparing estimates and understanding actuals through critical analytics.
Support cross functional teams across organizational entities to drive business systems through improvement and sustainable changes.
Analyze, design, and implement S/4 Hana system improvements through interaction with internal users and customers to understand and document system requirements to produce business requirements documents (BRDs)
Identify and support end user system access and/or transactional issues and interface with additional internal/external resources as required.
Teams with internal auditors during deployment of system audits

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, or a related field
15 years of experience in financial roles
Strong understanding of Finance operations
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy
Ability to work collaboratively in a team and across departments.
Experience in process automation and cost-saving initiatives is a plus.

Desired Qualifications and Experience:
Exceptional ability to comprehend and translate complex functional requirements. Proven experience in leading complex projects.
Outstanding communication and collaboration skills for effective leadership in cross-functional teams.
Proven experience with Agile methodologies and practices.
Willingness and ability to travel as needed to support projects and solution requirements.
SAP certification(s) in SAP S/4 Hana Finance is highly advantageous.