Senior Specialist , Software Engineering

R3 – EIT SAP General Ledger and Operating Expense Management Software Engineer (SG)

Enterprise IT is an essential component of the current IT division that provides support to the Pharmaceutical Research, Supply Chain, Marketing organizations as well as Enabling Functions. The EIT SAP Platform Team is responsible for company’s SAP Global Template asset, delivering enterprise-level capabilities through harmonized business processes and data. The team is responsible for the operation of all company’s SAP and integrated solutions, governance of the associated enterprise assets, and cost-effective delivery of capabilities to support achievement of immediate and future state business objectives.

Within the EIT SAP Platform Team, the EIT SAP General Ledger and Operating Expense Management Software Engineer will be responsible for product delivery in this focused area through working with a globally diverse set of teams; SAP Basis/Security/ABAP, SAP Functional, other IT Platform teams together with the Finance Value team. The candidate will be responsible for product delivery by providing functional design, technical configuration, test verification, documentation with relate to their respective Finance application(s). 

Responsibilities:

Bea member of global FBM (Finance Business Management) team of SAP Experts located in Singapore Tech Centre.

SAP Cross-Functional Delivery:

• Collaborate with delivery peers to ensure best-in-class delivery from solutioning of business requirements through unit-tested, working solutions.

SAP Functional Expertise:

• Possess detailed understanding of SAP Financial in the area of General Ledger (GL), and general understanding in the area of Operating Expense Management (CO-CCA, PCA, IO, PA)
• Collaborate closely with Finance Value Team to convert user stories to functional specification for product development.
• Be able to analyse/design complex system solution, setup system configuration and perform testing as part of product team delivery in a ECC 6.0 Global instance.
• Ability to visualize end-to-end integrated business processes and impacts across key areas such as Financial Business Management, Order to Cash, Source to Settle, Supply Chain Management, Tax, and Financial Supply Chain.
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in SAP functionality and identify opportunities for process improvements and automation.
• As part of the regional onsite team, to provide expert level support to production support/operations team to ensure minimum disruption to business continuity (e.g financial closing).

SAP Configuration and Development Governance:

• Responsible for SAP configuration changes and developments align with business requirements, industry standards, and regulatory compliance.
• Adhere to change control processes and methodologies to minimize system disruptions and ensure system stability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and technical teams to prioritize and work independently on the delivery of SAP enhancements and new functionalities.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, including finance, supply chain, and other functional areas, to understand their needs and align SAP solutions accordingly.
• Work closely with Product tech/value team lead to prioritize, providing insights and recommendations on leveraging SAP capabilities to drive business growth and operational excellence.
• Work in a matrix environment and reporting to the Product tech leads in a global setting. Participate in review of own work,and leads review of colleague’s work as appropriate.

Desired Education Level: 

• Master or Bachelor's Degree is required. Concentration in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field is preferred.

Required Skills & Experience: 

• 7+ years of SAP solution delivery experience in the area of FI-GL, CO-CCA/PCA/IO/PA. -required.
• Cross-functional business process experience - required
• Knowledge of interface development E.g. Idoc, BAPI, Middleware (BTP, TIBCO) – required.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact directly with business process owners and business stakeholders. – required.
• Practical experience with single ECC instance in a large scale corporation with global presence. – preferred
• Knowledge of localization within Asia/Europe/US region – preferred
• Working knowledge with Automation team (E.g. Bot) - preferred
• SAP FICO delivery lead experience - preferred
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA will be an advantage.
• Migration experience from ECC to SAP S/4HANA - preferred
• Life Sciences Industry experience - preferred
• Proven record of excellent performance. - preferred
• Proficiency with product life cycle tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Xray. – preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines/timezone with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with seniormanagement, clients, peers and team members - preferred
• Agile software development and DevOps settings - preferred