SAP BPC Job Description
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Licensing or Certifications for SAP BPC
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SAP BPC Examples
SAP BPC Job Description
- Deliver solutions using SAP Business Warehouse and SAP Business Planning and consolidations in the financial sector
- Understand financial consolidations/planning processes and assist with implementing and supporting the business consolidations/planning process
- Translates business rules into SAP BPC rules to automate consolidation and planning process
- Facilitate & lead (if necessary) designing of planning solutions to solve business problems and needs using SAP BPC HANA
- Facilitate & lead business requirement definition sessions
- Review and/or participate in solution build and test activities on BPC implementations, rollouts, or upgrade projects
- Understand processes in SAP BPC such as EPM, BADI, script logics and computations
- Advise on solution roadmap for BPC projects taking into account current Microsoft and Netweaver footprint
- Business engagement leader by owning relationship at leadership & operational level
- Demand management for supports and projects for the area of responsibility
- Experience in architecting, building and supporting Financial Planning applications
- Experience with administration and/or implementation of SAP BPC is preferred
- Strong functional experience in financial statement consolidation
- Strong Microsoft Excel modelling skills
- Must have excellent presentation and communication skills and the ability to gain the confidence of business executives
- Bachelor or higher degree in Accounting, Computer Science or IT
SAP BPC Job Description
- Represent expert voice of the Corporate systems with other IT groups in envisioning sessions
- Become the trusted internal advisor for key business users
- Assist in troubleshooting production support issues
- Design functional solutions to solve business problems and needs using SAP BPC HANA which relates to Entertainment accounting/planning functions such as GAAP amortization, participants & residuals, electronic sell-thru, download to rent, advertisement supported streaming, accounting variations due to profitable show versus deficit show, tax amortization, books closings and planning functions
- Perform fit-gap analysis via discovery by engaging with business units and other corporate systems team members
- Configure processes in SAP BPC using EPM skills, BADI, script logics and computations
- Advise on solution roadmap for BPC projects taking into account current Microsoft and Netweaver footprint for Studio Production Planning processes
- Conduct comparative research and recommend strategies for migration from BPC Microsoft to Netweaver and platform consolidation for Studio Production Planning processes
- Represent expert voice of the SAP CoE with other IT groups in envisioning sessions
- SAP functional experience with SAP module
- Administer BPC Application (IP, BPC CONSOL and SAP BPC Planning) and from time to time other BI systems ensuring robust performance management and issue resolution
- At least 5 years experience in SAP BPC
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, or Accounting preferred
- Ability to provide architectural solution & ownership of multiple independent changes and projects simultaneously
- Ability to validate and challenge user requirements to ensure that appropriate due diligence is placed on requirements as opposed to delivering unreasonable or unnecessary functionality
- In depth knowledge of the SAP BPC system to ensure Scoping, Initial Investigation, Feasibility and Design provide an accurate assessment of impact including work effort and cost
SAP BPC Job Description
- Design and drive data validations utilizing Rules and other
- Generate input schedules and formulate Business rules
- Administer account transformations and maintain dimension logic
- Able to maintain script logic in BPC
- Manage large/medium size projects to implement new functionalities and improve existing functionalities including articulating, analyzing requirements, translating them into effective solutions and validate for 100% accuracy
- Work with partners and finance users to define the requirements and then explain the system solution, and translate into system requirements
- Work with Technical ABAP team in explaining the requirement and co-ordinate with them to get development moving
- Work with the onsite-offshore resources in different time zones to prioritize, coordinate and execute daily production support and guide them in implementing small to medium size projects
- Provides leadership in coordinating development requests and acts as a single interface to BPC and SAP Developers, Finance, and various project teams across IT
- Provides leadership in coordinating Project and Production Support with Application Management Vendors (such as SAP)
- Demonstrated capability ensuring that end-to-end solution designs meet the needs of the client, provide for a quality technical solution, comply with architectural directions and enterprise standards
- Knowledge of architecture standard and industry best practices in SAP BPC domains
- Demonstrated commercial management skills in budget management, business initiative costing and benefit realisation
- Workshop planning, facilitation and scribing
- Detailed solution design and modelling
- User Interface design and screen/work flow
SAP BPC Job Description
- Provides technical leadership in the Finance community and assists in the alignment of business activities
- Troubleshoots system problems and performs SAP Finance configuration to resolve production issues
- Act as a project leader on Finance Projects
- UAT management and related management reporting
- Participates in scope definition and developing business requirements for the business
- Responsible for planning, directing and coordinating the efforts of the SAP Finance domain covering the Finance, and Controlling modules and Business Planning and Consolidation
- Convert business requirements into functional specification for IFEC based on business requirements
- Responsible for supervising system configuration in the Finance modules implemented at IFEC by any external service providers
- Responsible for the support of the finance domain including any functional/technical support provided by external service providers
- Lead all projects/enhancements/changes related to SAP Finance domain
- Incident analysis and resolution (warranty support)
- Root cause analysis and design of problem rectification (warranty support)
- Development of IT strategy and roadmap for SAP BPC
- Development of alternate architectures with pros and cons (time, relative costs, integrity, scalability, risk)
- Development of 3 year IT roadmap for the SAP BPC
- Knowledge in various COTS technologies and applications that integrates with SAP
SAP BPC Job Description
- Design, develop and implement budgeting and planning models
- Promote the Global Budgeting and Forecasting template
- Project manager on projects/initiatives related to SAP or relevant applications for the finance domain through their entire lifecycle, including estimating resource requirements, RFP and SOW reviews, project activities and dependencies
- Resolve Finance domain business issues related to SAP Finance and Controlling (FI/CO), Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and any deployed applications that directly support the finance domain
- Manage project teams and support resources assigned to the finance domain
- Work with managed service partner’s delivery manager to ensure quality of service (QoS) support for the finance domain
- Actively mentor and coach consultants on engagement methodology and development of consulting skills
- Development and support of all BPC objects that includes reports, input templates, master/meta data, logic scripts, business rules, BPF, work status, batch schedules
- Delivery of support helpdesk services via timely issue resolutions, escalation, and resolver group liaison on a daily basis
- Managing the day-to-day provision of maintenance and support as subject matter expert in reporting/ report configuration with SAP and non-SAP tools
- Knowledge or certification in SCRUM and ITIL methodology
- Accounting Knowledge required for Operating Expense (includes HR staff cost and headcount planning), Capital Expenditure / Projects, Revenue Planning, Group Legal and Management Consolidation of legal entities (includes knowledge of cash flow statements, annual financial statements, notes to accounts, intercompany eliminations and entries)
- Functional and Technical Knowledge required for maintaining and designing SAP BPC for Legal consolidation (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow, Notes to Financial Statements) and Management consolidation (intercompany eliminations, management adjustment entries, alternative hierarchies)
- Intermediate knowledge of BW/HANA platform to be able to support intermediate to complex issues in BW/HANA
- Should have at least 7 years of hands on experience in SAP BPC
- 4+ years of ABAP experience developing BADIs, BAPIs, Other ABAP and Front End (Excel) logic