SAP Finance Specialist in Harlow

Location: Harlow (Essex) or Glenrothes (Scotland)

Security Clearance: UK Eyes Only and either currently holds or is eligible to obtain SC

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world's most complex problems. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

This role is key to our BAU support of the Finance & Manufacturing functions ensuring SAP issues are resolved and that we are able to complete monthly processing correctly. In addition, it will be key to ensuring that projects such as PST are able to be delivered and supported long term in the UK business.

Main Duties:

• Reviewing of transactions (Distribution, Purchase orders, Pegging etc) and work with the business team to resolve errors
• Manage financial calendars and schedules in SAP
• Provide training to users around issues with business processes
• Work with key users to identify, scope and implement system changes to improve processes and respond to business change
• Provide a single point of knowledge across the different business functions (Finance, Manufacturing, SCM etc) on how data moves between them and to manage impact of work in one area impacting others.
• Act as the Business Process Expert/Super User for all SAP and SAP BW activities that take place in both the Business and IT.
• Act as First line of help for all business users
• Review daily GPD Pegging error report and investigate new errors. Suggest corrective action
• Review daily GPD Distribution error report and investigate new errors. Suggest corrective action
• Review daily GPD ZCMR (Purchase Order report) analysing movements in error accounts and suggesting corrective action
• Respond to any GPD questions from the business, analysing whether there are actual issues or a lack of understanding.
• Answer questions on GPD cost movements from the business identifying where the costs have moved and the reason for the movement
• Provide training on GPD matters when requested or where a gap in Knowledge is identified
• Act as the resident expert in the use of the SAP and SAP BW applications.
• Define processes and procedures for how transactions should be used in the business.
• Work with the IT Technical System Experts to prioritise defects and describe any system changes needed as a result of evolving business requirements.
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert in Finance, SCM, Quality, Manufacturing and Commercial from an IT perspective, bridging both organisations to maximise user engagement and IT understanding of these functions.
• Plan works with the Head of ERP Services, ensuring operational integrity and compliance covering information security, change management, asset management and software licensing.
• Meet IS assurance, governance and policies to ensure we operate with confidence, through effective maintenance of secure and stable IT platforms for the business, adherence to company security, accreditation and audit requirements.
• Lead troubleshooting of all business related service issues.
• Support the implementation and measurement of key service level agreements (SLAs).
• Support the maintenance of service quality levels, overseeing diverse and complex customer service events that require drive and focus to resolve.
• Manage incidents, problems and changes to the service efficiently and effectively following the agreed and documented processes.
• Maintain all associated documentation, support procedures and support rota/cover arrangements as necessary.

Essential:

• Proven experience in developing & implementing the SAP R/3 ERP system
• Holds recognised financial qualifications to support their level of experience and to substantiate their level of knowledge of Finance.
• Experience in the analysis of GPD (Grouping, Pegging and Distribution) issues within the aerospace and defence industry is required.
• Strong, demonstrable experience with SAP ERP/ MRP with emphasis on product cost management.
• Demonstrated functional expertise with SAP R/3 FI/CO/PS and integration experience with SAP PP/MM/SD modules is required.
• SAP experience in a manufacturing and supply chain environment
• Understanding of IT Systems disciplines, including: requirements, management, configuration management, change control, reliability analysis and quality management.
• Ability to lead business centric requirements discussions, obtain consensus among stakeholders and support those through into technical designs through deployment and into operations.
• Experience of providing high demand/mission critical systems on a 24x7 basis.
• Knowledge of Service Management disciplines engagement, design, delivery and maintenance lifecycles in a high technology or IT services domain.
• Demonstrable evidence of effective problem solving skills in complex support incidents.
• Excellent relationship skills - the ability to build positive relationships with both business and technical personnel.
• Experience of delivering high demand business services within technology services environments, in a complex matrix structure.
• Strong communication skills in written and oral presentation material.
• Ability to demonstrate effective collaboration capability within virtual teams and multi-party environments.

Desirable:

• SC cleared or the ability to become SC cleared.
• Experience of other key transactional and reporting systems and data warehousing.
• Experience of working closely with other key functions such as Manufacturing and Supply Chain.
• An appreciation of ITIL Functions & Processes.
• Business leadership experience of teams and functions utilising complex ERP systems.
• Knowledge and experience of project and service delivery disciplines including business analysis and requirements gathering, resource planning, ability to create project proposals.
• Full project lifecycle experience, user support & training experience.
• Preferably degree level education in a software engineering discipline although significant experience and track record with tertiary qualifications is acceptable.