JOB POSITION

OFS Fitel (http://www.ofsoptics.com) , a Norcross based global company and a world leader in Optical Fiber and Optical Cable manufacturing, is looking for qualified candidate to fill in SAP FI/CO Functional Lead job position in its CIO organization.

Contact: send resume to  richardli@ofsoptics.com

POSITION SUMMARY

As a member of our SAP team, the SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst will provide support of existing functionality and participate in new initiatives, additional site deployments, and other projects. The key role will be to analyze business problems, document requirements, needs and objectives, and coordinate activities with other functional analysts and technical team members to apply solutions to meet those requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Responsible for FI/CO configuration and user support

·         Liaison with finance super users and business users to deliver solutions to meet their business and reporting needs

·         Responsible for supporting IT projects when SAP FI/CO resources are required

·         Perform analysis of business processes and identifies improvement opportunities with the help of best practices

·         Creation of business process documentation, requirements specifications, test scripts, and training materials as needed.

·         Aid in development and implementation of project plans

·         Ability to examine system support problems/correct or delegate for resolution

·         Create and conduct test plans to ensure proper testing of business processes and participates in user acceptance testing and integration testing

·         Ability to work on a small team of SAP functional analysts, ABAP resources, and BASIS resources.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Candidate should have functional skills in the following FI/CO areas with detailed understanding of logistics processes, and its accounting impact:

• - General Ledger Accounting-foreign currency transactions, month end closing,
• - Accounts payables - payment processing, remittance advices, Vendor invoices,
• - Accounts Receivables / Treasury - AR invoicing, Lockbox receipts/applications
• - Asset accounting - basics (assets create, AUCs, AUCs settlements, Depreciation calculation, etc)
• - Product costing - understanding of 'Costing with qty structure' in different scenarios - MTS, MTO, COGS accounting, SO settlement process
• - Profit Center Accounting
• - Overhead Controlling - CCA(Cost Center Accounting), CEA(Cost Element Accounting)
• - Understanding of accounting impact behind logistics processes - GR, Material Consumption, Transfers, Consignment - Vendor / Customer, Deliveries, Shipments, Invoicing

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on configuration of SAP FI/CO required
• Hands-on configuration experience in GL, AP, AR, FA/AA, banking, treasury, credit management, lockbox processing, check reconciliation, vendor payments (check printing and wire transfers) and reporting is required
• Good experience in CCA, PCA, PA and costing required
• Good knowledge of integration with MM/IM/WM(materials costing, inventory valuation, goods movements, purchasing, pricing, consignment, etc..) , PP(repetitive and discrete), QM, SD (pricing conditions, taxation including US Sales Tax and VAT, consignment, returns, credit memos, etc...) is required
• Experience with EDI and electronic handling of banking transactions is required.
• Participated in at least one full-cycle implementation of SAP required
• Experience with full Software Development Lifecycle in an SAP environment for RICEF developments is required.
• Ability to write good functional specifications, test scripts, and develop training materials is required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, must be able to express your ideas and understand others using both verbal and written communications
• Data loading experience with creation of LSMW scripts is desired
• Knowledge/ Experience with BI/BW data warehouse, developing data models, info-cubes, queries, and reports are desired.
• Formal education of at least a Bachelor’s level degree and SAP certifications desired
• 1+ years experience with the latest versions of SAP ( ECC7 ) and new GL desired
• Good knowledge of US accounting practices such as GAAP is desired.
• Knowledge and/or Experience with meeting regulatory compliance requirements such as SOX / JSOX, and statutory reporting requirements are desired.
• Experience with other SAP modules an asset
• Experience / Knowledge of Vertex Q Series tax software integration is an asset.
• Knowledge or Experience with SAP DIMP Industry Solution an asset
• Knowledge or Experience with Variant Configuration an asset
• Experience with ASAP methodology is an asset
• Knowledge of ABAP/4, SAP report writer, Queries, BADI’s, BAPI’s, spreadsheet uploads and other developer-like skills are assets