SAP RAR Engineer

Posted 11 June 2021
Salary £50000 - £80000.00 per annum + + Bonus and Benefits
LocationBerkshire
Job type Permanent
ReferenceBBBH118887_1623423826
Contact NameJoe Redwood

Job description


RAR Engineer S4/Hanna - Revenue Accounting and Reporting
£50,000 - £80,000 + Bonus and Benefits
Berkshire


Investigo is partnering with a global organization that is going through a huge multi-year program to revamp its technology and digital solutions footprint, SAP will act as the 'digital core' for the company's major processes enabled by SAP's latest cloud and S4HANA offerings, they offer the opportunity for exponential career growth with support along the way, throughout the company they deliver a successful work-life balance and promote flexible work-hours.



As RAR expert, you will lead engagement with Accounting to reporting and Revenue Accounting teams for assigned finance platform, partner with finance technology team to create a vision, translate team vision into roadmap and will be responsible for end to end deliveries of the team on best suited technical platforms in alignment with the enterprise strategy. We are operating in more than 130 countries across the world and with rapidly and constantly changing business and technology environment, RAR expert role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the vision and implementation of finance solutions.

Key responsibilities
* Technology delivery partner with RAR team for finance & tax platform

* Help create vision in partnership with finance ATR, RAR function and platform product owners

* Translate vision into roadmap and lead end to end deliveries in alignment within technology architecture framework

* Actively collaborate with other platform product owners and Lead Engineers to understand the impact on RAR and ensure accounting needs are delivered

* Manage the platform product backlog as per prioritization based on business needs, creation of backlog items and mapping out dependencies in collaboration with users and customers

* Work closely with development teams in Agile way of working; contribute to the planning, execution and review of each sprint and work with the team to refine and improve the development process.

* Evaluating product progress accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product. Inspect and evaluate product progress at each iteration, determine whether final product is acceptable. Performance of product in general, includes example value delivery, user satisfaction, performance of the support process, compliance, cost, stability of the product and deployment/roll-out performance.

* Ensure governance is followed in change deployment, IT budgeting and manage relationship with vendors where relevant
We are looking for
You have:
* Most recent experience in S/4 HANA Implementation as SAP RAR Lead consultant and have multiple project experience in designing and implementing SAP RAR module

* Must have experience in end to end solution of RAR covering - integrate sender components, perform and configure the inbound processing, configure and use Contract Management, perform a price allocation, process contract changes (prospective and retrospective), perform fulfillment and create invoices, integration with Cost Object Controlling, process revenue postings, reconciliation and consistency checks, SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting, configure and perform the migration and transition to SAP Revenue Accounting.

* Bachelor / Master's degree in Business, Finance with minimum 10 years of experience with & should have managed Global Transformational projects with RAR in scope

* Broad understanding of the IFRS15 standards and how the new SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting (SAP RAR) solution has been designed to meet those standards.

* Should facilitate the implementation and support of the SAP RAR solution to enhance the business functionality

* Should analyze and define business requirements, processes and objectives to scope project and deliverables. Should have an experience in FI modules such as New GL/AR/AP/AA/Bank accounting

* Should have experience with at least 5 years in Finance/IFRS Strong knowledge of IFRS Accounting processes and best practices Overall knowledge of SAP IFRS15 solutions

* Expertise in the integration of Finance with other SAP solutions such AS SAP BRIM, FI-CA

* End to End process knowledge for upstream and downstream data modelling for IFRS 15 compliance, accounting processes and best practices. Expertise in IFRS 15 regulations and reporting using RAR

* Knowledge of majority of new features related to HANA is needed embedded analytics using CDS views, user experience using Fiori, S/4HANA conversion and pre-requisites, S/4HANA simplification and technical impact, SAP cloud platform, usage of BRF+ in SAP S/4HANA.

* Performs analysis of cross-functional and complex business requirements. Strong understanding of data management covering business and IT dimensions.

* Experience with Agile combined with global delivery. Strong facilitation skills with ability to lead business and map the requirements into solution

* Ability to lead and manage team of functional and technical experts.

* Good Communications and Presentation Skills