SAP FICO Senior Functional Analyst

ITT is a leading manufacturer of critical components for harsh environments that serves fast-growing end markets in flow, aerospace and defense, energy and transportation. Building on our heritage of innovation, we partner with our customers to deliver solutions to the key industries that underpin our modern way of life.
Headquartered in Stamford, CT, we have more than 11,700 employees globally with operations in ~40 countries and sales in more than 125. At our core is our engineering DNA, with 1,280+ engineers, 1,700+ active global patents and ~51 manufacturing locations.

Our businesses are organized in three distinct segments, each based around our core engineering DNA: 

Industrial Process: A global leader in centrifugal and twin-screw pumps and engineered valves for chemical, energy, mining, and industrial applications. Our leading brands include the iconic Goulds Pumps (with more than 175 years of history), Bornemann, Habonim, Engineered Valves, Rheinhütte Pumpen and Svanehøj. 

Motion Technologies: A global leader in brake pads (ICE and electrified brake pads) and shock absorbers (energy absorption solutions) for transportation applications. Our leading brands include Friction Technologies, KONI and Axtone.

Connect and Control Technologies: A leader in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, including harsh environment connectors and control components. Our leading brands include ITT Cannon, Enidine, Aerospace Controls and kSARIA. 

The resource will be integrated in the SAP CoE team and located in Athens (Greece) as SAP Functional Specialist with responsibility for the FI (Finance) area and CO (Controlling) area.

Mission is to maintain, implement and improve the SAP FI and CO Modules for all the ITT sites and all the SAP landscapes active in ITT

He/she will be responsible to ensure the ITT ERP system (SAP) effectively supports business processes.

The SAP FICO Functional expert will provide hands on in defining and executing the day-to-day operational responsibilities in delivery of SAP Financial support (both FI and CO) for ITT's global enterprise. This will be a transversal role in the organization within the ITT's Corporate SAP Center of Excellence (CoE), reporting to the SAP CoE Functional Leader.

You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the FICO configuration (related to operational activities supporting all the VC but also projects related to the FRC business and special projects supporting the VC), compliance (SOX), and standardization of SAP processes and system configurations across our diverse enterprise.

You will be expected to have a deep technical background in the SAP FICO area, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills to bridge the internal needs of the various internal IT organizations. This individual is expected to be an expert in all the SAP FICO requirements and their respective obligations, guiding the ITT business units and external contractors in the maintenance, improvements and growing of all the ITT SAP systems.

For a person to be successful in this role, they will need to be highly driven ("high motor"), able to balance many active priorities, detail oriented, planful, comfortable in searching out and addressing ambiguity, able to consistently deliver results to achieve intended business outcomes, persists with a naturally curious and highly accountable mindset, and approaches situations in a thoughtful and process-oriented manner. 

This person will be included in the SAP CoE FICO Functional team

• Support the SAP FICO operational activities (both in the AMS area + Special projects to support the VC + all the projects under the FRC scope); evaluate needs and provide options/recommendations to address the needs, etc.
• Advocate for the needs of the end users and IT teams as they aspire to provide a premier level of service for all our business units.
• Working with our SAP Value Center expert, proactively evaluate and assess each landscape on the FICO area and evaluate / make recommendations to improve Financial and Controlling posture and performance in a proactive manner.
• Effectively integrate SAP FICO configuration into the business environment to achieve expected business results.
• Independently drive issue resolution coordinating with all parties as needed to drive results.
• Apply best practice business processes and technical alternatives while operating in a rapidly changing business environment
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure business requirements are integrated into SAP implementations and upgrades.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of SAP FICO configurations
• Monitor and respond to SAP FICO incidents, conduct risk assessments, and implement mitigation strategies
• Standardize SAP FICO configurations, across multiple SAP instances and landscapes
• Communicate FICO issues, and solutions effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• FICO Incident management and resolution
• Due to the critical nature of this role, on-call support will be required should there be a critical issue impacting business operations.
• Identify and execute opportunities that create operational efficiencies (automation, etc.).

Overall, we are looking for experience with SAP support in multinational environments with FI and CO as first areas of competence (both FI and CO are required but a solid CO focus will be considered as a plus) with a higher focus on SAP Application Maintenance/Operational activities and sporadically also support to SAP Special Projects.

• Bachelor's Degree (preferably in Business or Computer Science); MBA a plus
• Experience (8+ years) in SAP FICO proven track record in large, complex organizations.
• Excellent knowledge of SAP best practices and methodologies.
• Proficiency in SAP FICO, localizations and compliance reporting
• Experience within a large multi-national organization with a diverse set of personnel from multiple regions and countries.
• Strong client-driven mindset and be willing to extend themselves to collaborate across teams, geographies, and time zones in an effective and efficient manner.
• Experience in migrating organizations from ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA
• Confident initiative-taker who is driven and results-oriented
• Strong documentation skills to maintain detailed records of control design, assessments, and testing results.
• Must have knowledge to support different SAP releases:
• S4H/Suite on Hana
• ECC 6.0
• SAP 4.0b
• Strong organizational & analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Proficiency in the English language is a necessity.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Must be able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload.
• Able to balance competing priorities and work under tight deadlines.
• a plus
• Experience working in a SOX-compliant environment.
• Travel is project based, but generally no more than 10% to 15%

Will be considered a plus:

• Solid FI skills (AP-AR-GL-AA-SL)
• Solid CO skills (PCA-CCA-Profitability Analysis-Product Costing)
• A strong CO focus and experience will be considered as a plus
• IM and Project System skills are a plus
• ABAP coding skills
• Automotive industry experience
• ITIL, Six Sigma, and PMI certification

Additional Attributes

• Leverage a consultative approach in conjunction with their technical skills and SAP solution expertise
• Maintains high ethical standards and works by a strong moral compass. Keeps their word and follows through on commitments. Honest, credible, and trustworthy.
• Continuous improvement mindset; always curious and open minded.
• Effectively examines events, issues and problems and determines implications, isolating root causes and ensuring they are solving whole problems rather than simply addressing symptoms.
• Adept at building relationships across the enterprise through collaboration, teaming, consensus building and interpersonal effectiveness. Positive influencing skills, able to interact with professionals in various functional areas to resolve issues throughout the organization and to mesh complex technology concepts with needs from company-wide constituents. An experienced manager and motivator of teams.
• Effectively conveys ideas and messages formally and informally. Delivers clear, concise, accurate, articulate, and persuasive written/oral messages, supplying supporting facts, as necessary. Adept at tailoring communication to different audiences. Demonstrated ability to prepare reports, documentation, and other written information thoroughly and completely.
• Effectively manages multiple tasks to complete complex projects. Highly organized, efficient, and able to define objectives, sequence, timeline, interdependencies and contingencies for projects or initiatives, maximizing time and resources and overcoming obstacles.