Sap Finance Control Consultant

Role:- SAP FICO, FM, and PS SME

Location:- Middletown, PA

**Currently Remote but can change to hybrid. Only candidates 1.5 hours or less from Middletown, PA will be considered**

Description of Duties

The selected candidate will perform a variety of support duties, including:

• Serve as SME for Finance, Funds Management, and Project Systems process for supporting the current systems as well as supporting the implementation of any new S/4HANA-based financial enterprise software system, application, processes or procedures as part of the SMART project. This includes integration with other SAP modules and other related PTC systems.

• Serve as an IT point of contact and subject matter expert for Finance, Funds Management, and Project Systems related activities, coordinating with project, system integrator, and business resources as needed.

• Partner with the system integrator, internal IT, and the business finance teams to provide configuration, development, testing or other required support for PTC financial systems.

• Quickly adapt and learn PTC’s current As-Is Finance, Funds Management, and Project Systems processes to facilitate mapping these processes to the To-Be processes in the SMART project.

• Work with the system integrator, internal IT, and the business finance teams to support the implementation of any new or enhanced processes or reporting capabilities.

• Support, develop, and document changes in Finance, Funds Management, and Project Systems processes in the current ECC and future S/4HANA environments as needed.

• Support data profiling, cleansing, reconciliation, testing, and validations of master and transactional data in support of project activities.

• Assure modifications and upgrades are thoroughly and successfully tested and documented.

• Partner with the system integrator, internal IT, and business teams to support reporting and analysis of financial and project systems information.

• Assist project team in identifying Finance, Funds Management, and Project Systems related training needs, including initial training for new users, training on new processes or training to groups on specific functionality in the S/4HANA environment, etc.

• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving issues in the current ECC environment and provide support during cutover and post-go live in the S/4HANA environment.

• Support best practices for system and process change management and business practice documentation.

Minimum Experience

• At least 10 years of experience in configuring and supporting SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA Finance, Funds Management, and Project Systems.

• At least 2 implementation project experience in configuring S/4HANA Finance, Funds Management, and Project Systems.

• Extensive knowledge and experience with SAP Finance and Controlling components with a strong understanding of the related end to end business processes

• Strong knowledge and deep experience working with Project Systems components of SAP, ideally using both ECC and S/4HANA.

• Experience with month-end and year-end financial processes in SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA

• Experience participating in process discovery and design workshops to develop and deliver SAP Finance, Project Systems and Funds Management solutions, ideally using SAP S/4HANA.

• Candidates must have thorough understanding of end-to-end business, data, and transaction processes.

• Experience developing, reviewing, and editing design documents (functional design, technical design, testing, etc.) as well as training material (process documents, job aids, etc.) as needed.

• Understanding of financial procedures, policies, and regulations for public agencies.

Desired Skillset

• Experience with real time and batch integration between SAP ECC 6.0 AND S/4HANA and other systems and vendors for finance related processes.

• Experience in Background job processing in SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA for finance related processes.

• Experience in handling postings for various forms of payments such ACH, and Check and real time payments including digital payments processed in SAP

• Experience in integrating SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA with external systems and banks.

• Experience with Integrations to and from Microsoft Dynamics

• Experience as a user with ServiceNow and Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO)

• Experience with planning and executing migrations from ECC to S/4HANA

• Experience developing, documenting, and reviewing test scenarios, cases, scripts, and results as well as conducting hands on testing in ADO if necessary.

• Experience with planning and executing brownfield migrations from ECC 6 to S/4HANA including supporting migrations to cloud-based S/4HANA environments and transitions from SAP GUI to Fiori.

• Experience developing, documenting, and reviewing test scenarios, cases, scripts, and results as well as conducting hands on testing in ADO if necessary.

Certifications / Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business management or information systems. Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be accepted.

• Certifications in S/4HANA Finance, Funds Management, and Project Systems are strongly preferred

Engagement Requirements

• Candidate’s location is preferred to be within the Continental United States.

• The work location will be virtual/remote until further notice. When required to be onsite, the work location will be at either PTC’s Central Administration Building located at 700 South Eisenhower Boulevard in Middletown, PA, or PTC’s Turnpike Industrial Park location located at 2850 Turnpike Industrial Drive, Middletown, PA.

• In-person interviews or work sessions with stakeholders will be conducted at the PTC facilities in Middletown, PA.

• Overtime requests always need to have prior approval of Project Principal with the rightful reasons for overtime.

• This position is primarily remote; however, this position may require reporting to the commission headquarters during key phases of the project - Solution Confirmation, Program Increment Cycles (PI), Showbacks, System Integration Test Cycles (SITs), User Acceptance Test (UAT), Go-Live, Immediately Post- Go-Live (Hypercare). The PTC will provide the onsite requirements when onsite is required.

• Any assigned PTC Equipment must be picked up in-person, by the resource, at the PTC’s Middletown, PA office. Travel costs associated with picking up this equipment will not be reimbursed.

• Remote connectivity: computer equipment and access to required administrative services and facilities will be provided to vendor resources as required. Computer equipment for use while engaged with the Turnpike may include a laptop, iPad or other tablet device, laptop bag, monitors, wireless keyboard, mouse, or other equipment as required to perform job functions. When an engagement ends, all equipment issued to the vendor resource must be returned to the PTC within 2 weeks of the resource being offboarded. All equipment shall be returned to the PTC in good working condition. The Prime Contractor will be invoiced for any unreturned equipment or equipment damaged beyond reasonable wear and tear.

• No additional compensation for any travel required, if the resource is based within a 3-hour commuting distance. The rate is inclusive of any travel costs.

• Travel expenses submitted for reimbursement must adhere to federal GSA guidelines governing hotel, mileage, and meals per diem rates, and must include appropriate expense documentation (receipts). GSA Guidelines are available at: https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates?gsaredirect=portalcontent104877

• Vendors are responsible for providing complete and accurate information and correctly completed forms for on-boarding resources. The vendor should allow a minimum of five to seven business days to fully on-board new resources. Vendor resources must:

• Complete the consultant onboarding spreadsheet provided by the PTC.

• Sign the PTC’s “Acceptable Use of Commission Technology Resources” (Policy 8.01) and the Non-Revenue Card Application Use Agreement for door access.

• Provide a contact phone number and a current professional photo.

• Must provide a copy of the results of a Pennsylvania Access to Criminal History – Record Check Certification (ePATCH) of the selected candidate dated after the release date of the Statement of Work.

• Provide a copy of the results of a National Criminal Check.

• If vendor resources will manage or access PTC systems and/or data for the Commission, they must sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which must also be approved and signable by their PTC supervisor.

• The PTC IT Department has established the following guidelines while working virtually and the vendor resource is expected to follow them:

• Use cameras during meetings.

• Maintain a professional appearance when in meetings and on camera.

• Resources must be available to come to the PTC work location within 3 hours in case of an emergency.

• The vendor-provided resource is expected to be on-site as needed for planned implementations or system issues (when required) with advance notice given when possible.

• Resources must abide by all published IT Standards, including those published publicly at http://paturnpike.service-now.com/kb.