As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we're dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.
Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we're looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.
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Compensation:
The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $93,000.00 to $154,900.00. This position is eligible for participation in our short-term incentive program in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan.
The range provided is not a guarantee of compensation. The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills. The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above.
Position Details:
Business Systems Engineer will be working on leading the design, configuration, and implementation of SAP FICO modules, including Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, Material Ledger, COPA, Profit Center Accounting, Taxation and integrations. Additional areas include Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) and Blackline where experience is desired but not required.
This role is a functional role, and you have experience with configuration, and designing the business processes. This position functions as a liaison working with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems.
This role consists of tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identify business needs and to determine and assess proposed solutions to business problems. Solutions require analysis of impact against 3 variables:
- Process Development - Analysis work performed to review the current stated solutions used by an organization, to identify the issues, define the requirements, and suggest best possible solutions.
- Continuous Improvement - Analysis work to review current manual or workflow activities and tasks performed by people, functional areas, and systems which are designed to achieve a specific outcome, while assuring data quality/integrity.
- Understanding relationships, information exchanges/handoffs, procedures, policies, and observations of work performed to achieve specific outcomes. Within the relationship with the business, the candidate assures alignment for continuous improvement within the systems landscape.
You Will:
- Participate in and/or drive design effort focusing on end-to-end process optimization, using standard system functionality whenever possible.
- Provide business systems analysis and process redesign expertise, interacting with business partners to clearly define and document business requirements.
- Create and maintain, functional and technical specifications for the applications required at various phases of the System Development Life Cycle.
- Participate in and/or drive the system configuration, and development which meet security, architecture, and support requirements, all while satisfying business needs.
- Understand the systemic data requirements as they relate to improving/changing the business process or system.
- Participates and/or coordinates required testing/validation of system enhancements and fixes, creating and/or executing test cases including problem determination and resolution.
- Collaborate with business partners regarding deployment needs, training, communications, change management and implementation of the application change.
- Apply project management standards ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner; communicates status and escalates open/unresolved issues, when necessary, in Service Now and JIRA.
- Participate in system emergency or crisis situations to define/implement workaround processes, corrective action, communication, and system cleanup activities.
- Stay current with changing needs of the business and technology advancements in the marketplace that may drive improved business operations.
You Have:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in migration, implementation, upgrade, enhancements & support, with Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Material Ledger and COPA modules.
- 5+ years of experience in taxation (preferably Vertex), including taxes on Purchase and Sales.
- Excellent knowledge of SAP FICO integration with other SAP modules (MM, SD, PP).
- Expert ability to design, develop, test, and deploy business processes.
- Strong usage of conceptual thinking to understand advanced business challenges and implications.
- Experience with embedding data analytics capabilities and understanding of key business data models, contribute to cross-functional solutions and be key expert representing domain in data discussions.
- Collaborate with architects to design the best solutions.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one's employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.