Fica Support Specialist

A tech services company in Washington is actively seeking a new FICA Support Specialist to join their growing team in Vancouver. In this role, the FICA Support Specialist will be responsible for building and supporting a scalable and sustainable architecture, org strategy, solution design and serve as a functional expert for the SAP platform in the Finance domain.

Responsibilities:

The FICA Support Specialist will:

• Work with business partners and IT leadership on prioritization and proactively anticipate gaps and overlaps within the Finance portfolio
• Provide optimized solutions based on business needs and technology capabilities
• Serve as a solution architect for the projects and provide best practices and strategic platform direction
• Lead requirement gathering sessions with business team members in Record To Report(RTR) function and an excellent knowledge of Order to Cash (OTC) functionality
• Support month end closing, day to day operations and enhancements that ensure availability of our SAP application and its ecosystem
• Design & build products/solutions in SAP S4 HANA Finance (RAR, FICA, AP, GL & FA)
• Ensure quality and timely deployments across various SAP instances using DevOps model
• Provide solution design and implementation of SAP RAR solutions that drive scalability and efficiency
• Collaborate with the team to ensure that they follow best practices when architecting, programming or documenting solutions.
• Coordinate activities for month-end close procedures
• Perform other duties, as needed

Qualifications:

• 4 + years of experience in architecting and designing solutions using SAP Platform
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or in a related field
• SAP Certification
• Experience with procurement and time and expense management tools as well as standard transaction flows
• Extensive experience working with SAP FI-CA - Financials Contract Accounting
• Deep understanding of the Finance areas - Revenue Recognition, FICA, AP, FP&A, General Ledger, Fixed Assets
• SAP FI-CA is a must have skill set with at least 5+ years experience working in SAP FI-CA area
• Experience in SAP RAR ( Revenue Accounting & Reporting), specializing in design, configuration & integration with FI & SD
• Detailed understanding of RTR, SD/FICO modules integration, IFRS 15/ASC 606 and Revenue Recognition process within SAP
• Experience supporting a SAP project/s with SAP RAR with an understanding of project activities such as conversions, enhancements, support for RAR
• Experience working with products in SAP such as BRIM (SOM/CI/CC) and an ability to understand the full lifecycle functionality from quote to cash
• Experience working with reports in SAP using tools such as ABAP, SAC or Tableau among others and an ability to design reports related to RAR/SD/OTC
• Knowledge for setting up data through standard FICA transactions