SAP FICO Functional Consultant

at  Panasonic Corporation of North America

WHO WE ARE:

Meet Panasonic! Panasonic Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation of North America, is a leading provider of Consumer Lifestyle technologies, as well as innovative Smart Mobility, Sustainable Energy, Immersive Experiences, and Integrated Supply Chain solutions for its business and government clients. Panasonic is creating technologies that move us.
At Panasonic Canada, we do more than just offer great products and solutions. We pride ourselves in promoting gender and culture equality, as well as encouraging personal growth and success to elevate our 350+ employees to their full potential. Their passion has been one of the driving forces behind our success for more than 100 years.

• Process Design and Application Architecture - Performs routine to complex analysis and design for various business applications and business critical functions. Gathers, analyzes and prioritizes user requirements. Develops graphical user interface design through the use of data models, functional flow diagrams and other documentation as part of the business and system analysis and design as defined by departmental standards and methodologies. Drives concepts and requirements into a design that meets a defined business need. Performs cost benefit analysis and identifies areas of risk. Creates functional and technical specifications based on defined business rules. Facilitates walkthroughs to confirm business requirements and functional specifications. Works collaboratively with other information technology departments to determine an optimal system design. Prepares status reports as required, verifies design specifications, or project objectives, and makes course corrections as required. Maintains current knowledge of PCI’s business applications both within functional and technical areas. Research technological advances and resources to provide appropriate recommendations.
• Project Management - Prepares project plan, identifies impact of scope changes, areas of risk and prepares and presents project planning efforts on a medium to large size projects. Prioritizes, assigns, and re-assigns work to staff assigned to the project. Resolves conflicts to advance the project. Participates in the performance evaluation of project team members upon project closure. Prepares and presents project deliverables to the appropriate management for project review throughout the development life cycle. Prepares appropriate feasibility studies and recommendations. Tracks activities, prioritizes task, and escalates and addresses issues to resolution. Ensures successful project implementation within budget and time constraints. Negotiates with stakeholders to obtain agreement regarding requirements. Ensures IT controls are met within the given project including requirements defined for SOX.
• Software Testing and Documentation - Creates and executes applicable unit and system integration testing. Creates test scripts to automate testing where possible. Performs tests in accordance with the test plans created by the testing lead. Verifies and ensures that tests meet the functional and business requirements. Develops usage scenarios and use cases. Highlights and identifies process and system changes to expert users to facilitate acceptance testing. Develops user documentation for on-going support. Creates and develops training documentation within a given project. Develops and delivers user training as required. Assesses training needs and adapts materials to audience. Collects and analyzes participant feedback to determine training success, and to improve training content and delivery. Provides feedback to all parties.
• Problem Management - Responds in a timely and effective manner to resolve business application problems/incidents. Analyzes problems, identifies root cause, and prepares appropriate solutions. Develops workarounds, prepares work process/application documentation and coordinates with other IT staff to implement effective resolution.
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