Northrop Grumman's Corporate Enterprise Services team is looking for an SAP FICO Analyst to be a primary contact for Cost Accounting Support to reside within the Timekeeping and Labor Team. The incumbent will analyze, evaluate, modify, configure, test and implement enterprise-wide purchased systems (e.g. SAP, PeopleSoft, etc.) He/she will also prepare application system specifications.
This position is not location specific and can be performed virtually.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Gathering requirements in the CO area, recommending solutions, blueprinting, realization, and support.
• Report to the Timekeeping and Labor manager, and be the liaison with Cost Accounting and its impacts to company Timekeeping
• Regularly interacting with Finance management
• Being an integral member of the 1ERP Team
• Share SAP support responsibilities with fellow SAP Analysts.
• Provide primary support for the CO module in SAP. Support involves fielding questions, troubleshooting issues, and executing solutions.
• Provide secondary support for the Timekeeping (CATS) in SAP and Labor processing
• Develop, design, test, and validate SAP configuration/customizing related to new business processes developed as part of the business process improvement and optimization initiatives.
• Handle reporting requests by analyzing the requirements, preparing functional specifications, working with developers and testing new reports and changes.
• Assist in the setup, configuration, and testing of new companies.
• Work with the SAP security team on resolving authorization issues and provide recommendations on optimal security setup for ongoing projects requirements.
• Work with other SAP Team analysts on cross functional projects.
• Able to support after hours maintenance and upgrades on critical systems and provide on call support as needed.
• Provide support for Redwood scheduling application to support weekly processing.
• Plans, implements and coordinates system upgrades, enhancements or maintenance
Basic Qualifications:
To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills and abilities listed below:
• Bachelor's Degree in IT, Accounting or Business.
• 5+ years of hands-on strong SAP CO experience with a combination of project implementation and production support.
• Must have CO expertise in ECC 6.0 or higher.
• Basic knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Ability to directly work with business process experts.
• 1-2 full life cycle SAP project implementation in the area of CO.
• Working knowledge of CO integration with other financial modules, including GL, AP, & PS to help with support requests.
• Proficient in designing and developing user training documentation, test plan and test script development and execution.
• Experience working in a Global Company Structure.
Preferred Qualifications:
Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:
• Experience in Implementing S/4 HANA
• Experience with the Project System Module
• Experience with Fiori
• Experience with SAP Timekeeping & Labor
• Experience with SAP HR
• Experience with Redwood
• Experience working virtually