Solution Specialist (FI Integration)

Job Description:

We are a global energy business involved in every aspect of the energy system. We are working towards delivering light, heat, and mobility to millions of people every day. We are one of the very few companies equipped to solve some of the big complex challenges that matter for the future. We have a real contribution to make to the world's ambition of a low-carbon future. Join us and be part of what we can accomplish together. You can participate in our new ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner and help the world get to net zero.

Would you like to discover how our diverse, hardworking people are leading the way in making energy cleaner and better – and how you can play your part in our world-class team?

Key Accountabilities:

• GBS Enabling Solutions owns, designs, governs, deploys, and supports global template products critical to bp's success, such as SAP global financial template, Finance Business Warehouse, SAP Ariba, and Salesforce.
• As Solution Specialist (for Group Reporting and FI Integration) you will use your business and accounting knowledge to govern the solution design of bp's legacy Finance Business Warehouse (FBW) system as well as your deep knowledge of SAP FI to design global solutions to resolve problems across bp's complex system landscape.
• In addition, you'll be accountable for coordinating the specification of the core configuration settings for establishing new entities in SAP and bp's Finance Business Warehouse System (FBW) and for supervising the work associated with the successful load and transformation of financial data coming from other ERP systems and validating financial data in bp's FBW for migrated entities.
• You will also give your knowledge and experience of FI processes and group reporting towards new solution design for group reporting using S/4 HANA - Central Finance as part of bp's ERP Transformation Project.
• Be the authority on template solutions within the functional area and participate in design authorities.
• For approved demand, understand business requirements and complicated business processes and scenarios and translate/break these down into a simplified set of requirements for which solutions can be investigated.
• Design global standard solutions to meet business needs.
• Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical customers.
• Prepare, review, and/or approve functional specifications for solution design.
• Lead template fit gap and user training sessions.
• Guide and constructive feedback to peers design work.
• Identify, analyse, and delineate problems.
• Investigate and solve solution incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
• Guide for designs that multi-functional areas in order to achieve end-to-end solutions that meet our customers' needs.
• Guiding to others on integration considerations for interfaces coming from external systems.
• Review and signoff cross-system cutover plans and integration testing scenarios.
• For new designs or changes to design, provide testing scenarios to ensure the solution is robust.
• Understand and accept agile principles and agile ways of working.
• Where agreed, act as Solution Integration Lead for specific projects, providing support to the project teams and their interaction and solution needs with the rest of the solutions team.

Essential Education & Experience:

• Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background. 
• Accountancy qualification or working towards one (e.g. CIMA, CPA, ACA, ACCA) Strong presentation and social skills, including the ability to articulate complex processes and influence a wide range of customers.
• Experience in collecting business requirements and improving processes and systems.
• General understanding of systems deployment activities.
• Ability to work and collaborate within a virtual distributed team environment.
• Ability to prioritise effectively for yourself and the team.
• Ability to learn and be the authority on template solutions.
• Ability to formulate and solve problems.
• Ability to build strong relationships with business customers, technical teams, and delivery teams.

Product Experience & Expertise:

• Deep knowledge and significant experience with Group and statutory reporting and consolidation processes.
• Good knowledge of group reporting technologies such as SAP S/4 Group Reporting and SAP BPC.
• Deep knowledge and experience of integrating external systems and technologies into SAP FI such as Workday and Blackline.
• Knowledge of financial data migration and financial reconciliations.
• Knowledge of data integration tools, such as Informatica.
• Significant experience with SAP and BW including a general working knowledge of transactional processes in an SAP environment.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience working in a multi-national organisation.
• Experience of Agile ways of working
• Enabling Solutions is a distributed team spanning multiple locations and serving customers from across the globe to design, deploy, and sustain solutions.

This role has global exposure and you will work closely with:

• Solution authorities in different functional areas.
• Internal / External auditors
• Deployment project data migration teams
• ERP Transformation Project team

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.

Candidates must be resident in Malaysia, or have the right to work in Malaysia.