The post sits in the BBC Technology & Media Operations team, supporting finance platforms built on SAP. Duties cover co-ordinating small and medium technical changes delivered by an outsourced provider, supporting larger projects and resolving incidents. The team is mid-transformation in finance and procurement, and the work centres on SAP ECC and S/4HANA finance modules and their integrations. Fit turns on deep SAP finance knowledge and recent experience of a complex landscape.
What the job involves
- Contribute to a technical roadmap for systems and services within scope
- Co-ordinate small and medium technical changes, clarifying requirements from BBC business users
- Manage the change process run by an outsourced technology provider, covering documentation review, technical build, testing, production deployment and post go-live support
- Act as a trusted technical team member on larger projects with technical change elements, working with project management and stakeholders
- Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, promoting best practice and achievable goals
- Work with outsourced technology partners and internal stakeholders to resolve incidents at varied severity levels
What's required
Experience
- Extensive experience of SAP ECC and S/4HANA finance modules and best-practice configuration aligned to business requirements
- Deep knowledge of SAP FI/CO, Project Systems, Intercompany, Tax, Fixed Assets and Banking
- Recent experience of a complex SAP landscape
- Translating project, business and user requirements into technical and functional solutions while balancing competing priorities
- Reviewing technical and functional documentation against SAP best practice, quality and clarity
Skills & knowledge
- Strong SAP ECC6 and S/4HANA integration expertise across finance, sales, reporting and third-party platforms, using APIs, middleware, IDocs, web services and event-driven architectures
- Integration experience across MM, BW, SD and HR
- Stakeholder management and leadership, influencing senior business leaders, product owners, architects, engineers, suppliers and delivery teams
- Explaining complex technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
- Leading requirement gathering and evaluating solution options against engineering standards and strategic objectives
What's offered
- Flexible working discussed, including at offer stage
- Opportunity to pick up new skills and best-practice ways of working
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SAP Principal Systems Engineer in London employer: The Methodist Church in Britain
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