SAP S4/HANA FICO Architect

at  Cognizant

ABOUT COGNIZANT SAP PRACTICE

Cognizant is proud to be a Global Strategic Partner engineering modern businesses with SAP. We work with clients across 20 different industry sectors and for some of the most prestigious enterprises around the world. We are S/4HANA “RISE” & Private Cloud Edition Partner with SAP.
Cognizant has over 20,000 Global SAP consultants, 9000+ S/4HANA consultants, 6600+ SAP certified consultants globally across more than 35 countries. We have won numerous SAP awards for innovation and our impact on the SAP eco-system. Our culture is working as one, harnessing the power of our global digital practices to deliver tangible business outcomes for our clients. We lead the way in pushing the boundaries of the SAP products and platform through internal hackathons and investment in industry leading SAP accelerators. Cognizant is experiencing phenomenal growth in UK and Ireland leading to an increased demand for its SAP expertise, we’re looking for talented SAP certified professionals to be part of our long-term success story.
At Cognizant your professional and personal development is our top priority. Our leaders will actively coach and support you every day so that you can continue to learn and contribute to the SAP practice to deliver customer excellence. You’ll have access to exclusive SAP partner learning events, skills coaching, and encouragement for SAP certifications to support your professional development and career progression.
Outside of the SAP practice we offer our Associates a variety of activities from joining our active affinity groups to volunteering your time across the 100’s of volunteering events that are organized by our Cognizant Outreach team.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS:

• Experience in Finance Transformation projects, Group Reporting and S/4 HANA latest features.

JOB DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the successful implementation of SAP Finance solutions.
• Analyse and map client’s business requirements, processes and objectives.
• Provide functional expertise, guidance, presentation, and solutions.
• Build credible relationship with clients, develop own professional learning of SAP products/ technologies and solutions.
• Assists in internal activities - remote/ spot consulting, presales, prepare training materials and provide knowledge sharing sessions.
• Present complex information to customers and colleagues in a clear and appealing manner.
• Understand Finance business processes and different modules.

TYPICAL DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THIS ROLE WILL INCLUDE:

• Implement Agile and DevOps methodologies as part of delivery execution.
• Review and refine effort estimations by analyzing business requirements for change requests and project requests.
• Review of functional design, configuration documents, functional specifications, test scripts, user training documentation created by team members.
• Identify at regular intervals risks and dependencies to delivery.
• Participate in discussions, presentations to customers at a strategic, advisory and consulting level.
• Demonstrate deep business domain, SAP technology and best practice expertise while providing technology solutions.
• Promote collaborative work culture, team bonding, transparency and work as One Team along with Customer, Cognizant and Business partner members.
• Build strong customer relationships and manage expectations.
• Comply to various quality metrics around delivery process.
• Pursue upskilling, updating SAP technology roadmaps and certification in SAP modules, related technology areas.
• Build a culture of knowledge management and regular contributions to SAP practice with case studies, knowledge assets and reuse accelerators.
• Drive solutioning for client proposals and RFP’s and participate in bid defence to customers.
• Participate in achieving business targets and financial goals.
• Prepare collaterals and publications for distribution in strategic areas related to SAP technology.
• Participate in industry seminars/ conference, as required, to share knowledge and build Cognizant brand.
• Participate in new talent selection, mentoring leads, senior SME’s to build SAP competency.
• Set clear and objective goals for team, recognize and award team members, evaluate performance and conduct regular appraisals.