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As the SAP ERP configuration specialist in Platform Services in the Global Technology Services Corporate Systems group, this individual will deliver S4 HANA solutions in GL, CFIN and Tax. This role will participate in strategic and transformation initiatives such as 1ERP global transformation. The primary function of this role is intended to take a broad-based view of business processes across core functional domains for both domestic US and global business entities to build and configure solutions on the SAP platform. The primary responsibility will be to leverage his/her deep understanding of the core processes to ensure that the SAP platform is architected, built with fit to standard approach and integrated with cloud applications to support corporate roadmap for customer, employee and enterprise product domains. This individual will deliver best in class out of box capabilities through planning, platform functional build, leading development teams and participate in release control to realize the business processes. Core functions are Master Data Management, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay/Acquire to Retire, Record to Report and Central Finance. These functions will be defined as enterprise wide business processes centered around SAP S/4 HANA ERP platform with business functions spanning across other systems and other SAP products such as CRM, BRIM, IBM, CAR, Ariba, SAP Analytics. This role will interface with product owners, agile product teams, platform services and strategy and operations in order to fulfill the stated primary goal.

• Solution Build, Configuration and Technical Architecture: Lead technical architectural discussions, evaluate the out-of-box capabilities in GL, Central Finance and Tax to meet platform objectives to optimize cost, speed and quality. Conduct fit to standard analysis for end to end solution design and perform configuration changes to close the gap. Engage in technical discussions to build solutions that can scale and resilient. Lead development team or managed service framework to complete development and deliver solutions, including new capability upgrades. Engage with product agile teams to review solution and garner signoff or approvals.
• Agile Delivery/Quality Assurance/DevOps: Guide teams across IT, business and vendors to deliver disciplined Quality Assurance and solution delivery via Agile methodology. Full responsibility leading functional and performance testing across multiple SAP modules and integration with internal or external systems, build alignment with product agile team to perform user acceptance testing, acquire signoff. Drive cost optimization, quality, speed of delivery and security/data privacy through test automation and DevOps tools adoption. Drive process improvement. Establish governance to ensure full compliance of audit, controls and security requirements.
• Run and Operate: Own and lead all facets of platform application maintenance and optimization for ERP applications to ensure product reliability, data quality, reduce cost of ownership and meet SLAs. This includes developing and realizing best practices such as ITIL, Business Continuity, Automation, Run IT like a Factory or implementing best in class tools to drive demand reduction. Lead production deployment, cutover or cloud migration activities with TechOps engineering teams. Engage the vendor for any major production issues, and lead the product development teams on resolution and root cause. Establish plan and measure production support SLAs, ensure security remediation / security by design and deliver Cloud/DevOps modernization. Provide leadership updates, on outage and solution to avoid future production outages. Transition new solutions and/or features to run and operate teams. Ensure proper knowledge transfer and domain expertise is retained for platform sustainability and effective operations.
• Strategic Leadership: Lead innovation and “Build vs Buy” to deliver best-in-class solutions. Develop technical strategic roadmap to drive customer experience and improve operational financial cost controls. Work with vendor to build or innovate capabilities into their product roadmap through participation in SAP conferences, production innovation and design thinking workshops or analyzing latest trends to deliver value added functionality. Deliver enterprise level impact through influencing organization(s) to deliver solutions using the latest trends or technologies.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A Master’s degree in computer science.
• Functional and customization experience working directly with General Ledger, Central Finance and Tax processes on the SAP S4/HANA platform together with specialized SAP products/add ons such as GLSU, MDG-DQM, BRIM, Ariba, IBP, PaPM etc and Workday.
• Functional/technical proficiency with at least three full lifecycle SAP and/or ERP implementations.
• Deep knowledge of ERP master data, business processes and technology stack using SAP suite of products and its integration points. Applications include SAP S/4HANA and Cloud (e.g., BRIM, Ariba, IBP).
• Deep experience in SAP processes and customization, S/4HANA, ABAP, SQL, SAP Workflow/Release Strategy, SAP IDOC, SAP LSMW, Fiori/UI5, SQL Connectors.
• Experience in creating on-demand metrics/analytics using SQVI, SQL for the business processes supported.
• Demonstrated ability to develop innovative solutions to business problems.
• Ability to review code and system configurations to develop a deep understanding of the systems solution that supports the corresponding business process.
• Ability to debug systems to analyze and resolve issues.
• Well versed in researching and identifying SAP Notes to resolve issues.
• Experienced in creating and tracking SAP OSS notes and working with SAP to resolve issues.
• Hands-on access and exposure to the latest technologies.
• Ability to guide other functional and development teams in implementing solutions based on business requirements.
• Leverage DevOps and Agile to deliver solutions. Lead design and implementation of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipeline automation.
• Global delivery experience (onshore/offshore).
• Security and vulnerability remediation. Experience with security by design.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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