TTT - SAP Functional Hiring - Tax Senior

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SAP FICO -Functional Consultant

About us

EY’s GDS Tax Technology team’s mission is to develop, implement and integrate technology solutions that better serve our clients and engagement teams. As a member of EY’s core Tax practice, you’ll develop a deep tax technical knowledge and outstanding ERP, database, data analytics and programming skills. Ever-increasing regulations require tax departments to gather, organize and analyse more data than ever before. Often the data necessary to satisfy these ever-increasing and complex regulations must be collected from a variety of systems and departments throughout an organization. Effectively and efficiently handling the variety and volume of data is often extremely challenging and time consuming for a company. EY's GDS Tax Technology team members work side-by-side with the firm's partners, clients and tax technical subject matter experts to develop and incorporate technology solutions that enhance value-add, improve efficiencies and enable our clients with disruptive and market leading tools supporting Tax. GDS Tax Technology works closely with clients and professionals in the following areas: Federal Business Tax Services, Partnership Compliance, Corporate Compliance, Indirect Tax Services, With-holding Tax, and Internal Tax Services. GDS Tax Technology provides solution architecture, application development, testing and maintenance support to the global TAX service line both on a pro-active basis and in response to specific requests.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Management, Solution build and System delivery

Lead functional requirement workshops/meetings with Client/EY teams and create detailed business requirement specification and user stories Create Functional Design Documentation and Key Design Decisions and present the same to stakeholders Manage the requirement scope changes and requirements traceability through sufficient documentation like MOMs, User stories and Requirement specs Ability to work in an iterative approach with client/onsite teams to build functional solutions through solution wireframes Create and document business process models to illustrate current and future state processes using various modelling tools

System Implementation

Lead SAP FICO solution architecture and configuration in S/4HANA. Design and integrate core financial modules: GL, AP, AR, AA, CO. Leverage S/4HANA innovations like Universal Journal and embedded analytics. Exposure on SAP Simple Finance – GL Accounting, Asset Accounting and CO – Overhead Cost Controlling & Profitability Analysis. Creating Financial Statement versions & General Ledger hierarchies. Understanding of SD & MM modules in relation to transaction flows and dependent configurations. Work with offshore design/development team to convert the functional solutions to technical solutions by providing solution discovery support

Work as a bridge between client business team and the technical team during the build phase providing requirements debriefs/walk throughs to build the new system against approved specifications. Participate in interim work products review to validate the work product against the baselined requirements

Demonstrate work products to client/onsite in sprint reviews and document feedback

Project Execution

Ability to work under agile framework adhering to agile ceremonies and methodologies Manage end-to-end SAP FICO project lifecycles. Create status reports and provide status updates to client against work scope. Ability to identify opportunities for business process improvement and optimization through automation

System Validation

Create Functional/User acceptance test cases, perform functional testing and document test reports

Work with the QA team to help them understand requirements and review test cases.

Create System Acceptance Criteria, end user training documentation and deliver user training Provide Support system cutover and parallel run functional support

Ensure compliance with financial regulations and internal controls.

Documentation & Training

Develop detailed functional specifications and design documents for SAP FICO solutions Analyse data and documents to identify insights on current client state - processes, functions, operational practices Convert the business requirement specification to detailed functional solutions/specifications for design and development Document key design decisions and criterions from a future system angle prior to the functional specification documentations

Create User Manuals, Business User Training Decks, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)s for the solution transition and adoption. Deliver end user training and ensures a smooth transition to the client.

Ability to learn new work domains as demanded by the project requirements

Qualifications & Experience

CA/CMA with 4 to 8 years of post-qualification experience Minimum 2 to 4 full cycle implementation experience for financial transformation projects preferably on tax/accounting side. Strong functional knowledge and work experience on SAP FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, CO-OM, CO-PA. Experience with SAP Fiori apps and real-time reporting. Excellent analytical, communication, and leadership skills. SAP FICO certification (preferred).

Functional and Technical skillsets

Tax domain knowledge on areas like Indirect tax, With-holding Tax, International Tax and transactions, Transfer pricing, Legal Entity Forecasting, etc Financial Planning, Analysis modelling (GL, TB, Financial statements) Knowledge on CO-PA & Product Costing (Planning and cost object controlling). Experience with Business intelligence tools would have additional preference.

Soft skills

Problem Solving – Understand core business issues, Problem root cause analysis (RCA), attention to details, apply creative thinking for building novel solutions Analytical Skillset –Situation and Case Analysis, Data Analysis & Interpretation, Business Process Analysis Decision making – Ability to make quick decisions out of the analysis finding and choices available Communication Skillset –

Oral Communication-Speak efficiently in meetings with clarity and confidence communicating the required information to stakeholders Written communication skills -Producing decks, documents, diagrams, and emails that meets project requirements Active listening and patience to work iteratively

Personal strength - Systematic, meticulous, and well organized Social skillset –Ability to collaborate and cooperate with cross functional virtual teams, empathy towards fellow team members Ability to adapt and work in ever changing and uncertain environments

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