Finance Strategy and Enablement Order to Cash Process
Finance Strategy & Enablement is a global team within the Finance Corporate Function. The team shapes our Finance Strategy supporting each Finance Function Lead to develop a functional transformation roadmap and to prioritize the programs that deliver that transformation. Strategy & Enablement ensures that day-to-day activities across Finance are supported by robust and compliant processes, user centered solutions and application support fundamental to the overall success and transformation of Finance. It also leads a broad range of key programs and change journeys, drives improvements in technology performance and reimagines our processes with the application of new technology in collaboration with CIO.
The individual in this role will be dedicated to supporting the Order to Cash process area by involvement of the end-to-end process and applying process expertise toward the development, maintenance and continuous improvement of processes and SAP solution.
Team Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain deep expertise in the Sales and Distribution module of the SAP system used at Accenture
Partner with the CIO team supporting this SAP module to ensure functionality is maintained and enhanced as required by business teams including Global Controllership, Country Controllership, Global Tax, CFM, Client teams and Internal Controls
Drive efforts to continuously improve and optimize Finance processes and procedures
Development of opportunities to increase end user productivity by facilitating the sharing of best practices and the development of practice aids, reports, forms, templates, and other tools
Provide resolution to functional inquiries raised by end users
Ensure the consistent application of standard global and local processes, and prevent the development of unnecessary workarounds
Enable Venture and Acquisitions effectively and aligned with Accenture Global Design
Ensure end users are making the most effective use of the deployed processes and systems, and prioritize requests for enhancement between business need and capacity
Construct and deliver documents containing business requirements for SAP solutions managed by OTC; ensure that the CIO teams supporting the OTC process understand the business requirements
Actively participate in Global Finance Initiatives in which our team
Define requirements - design & build stage
Drive CIO & Finance discussion and make suggestions
Functional Designs review & sign off
Functional Testing, test scripts design & review, testing issues follow ups
Prepare Training Documentation, Job Aids & deliver training
SIR Mgmt. Calls attendance
Security discussions to define Security Model for the new solution
Deploy and stabilize the solution
Role Specific Responsibilities:
Actively participate in regular operations activities to support the OTC Invoicing process, with special focus on the enablement of new Accenture legal entities into the regular SAP OTC invoicing solution.
Collaborate defining business requirements - design & build stage – help driving Finance & CIO discussion and make suggestions
Functional Designs review & sign off
Functional Testing, test scripts design & review, testing issues follow ups
Help preparing Training Documentation & Job Aids
Construct and deliver documents containing business requirements for SAP solutions managed by OTC; ensure that the CIO teams supporting the OTC process understand the business requirements
Collaborate in the deploy, monitor, and stabilize the solution deployed
Help defining the support model required.
Qualifications
· Education: CPA or equivalent finance qualifications
· Recommended Certifications, Licenses, etc.: NA but requires experience with Accenture’s record to report processes.
· Work Experience: 1 or more years
· Work Requirements: Travel not required