Senior Principal IT Technologist - Hyderabad, India - Medtronic

Description

As an SAP Accounts Payable IT Technical Analyst, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing the SAP system to support Accounts Payable operations including several upstream and downstream processes. Your role in the SAP AP & EEM (Concur) IT Team involves working with the Sourcing, Accounts Payable, EEM and Treasury business and the AP (SAP, ReadSoft), EEM (Concur) and Kofax IT Support teams to conduct the following duties; Configuring and maintaining SAP Accounts Payable and Employee Expense Management (Concur) applications to meet Medtronic functional requirements (policy workflows, integrating with upstream processes of procurement, travel, event management, expenses, services, contracted services and contingent sourcing as well as with downstream processes related to integrations with banks or check management).

This individual would be responsible to configure systems for accounts payable invoice processing, ensuring 2-way and 3-way matching, workflow for non-PO based invoices, payment approvals, check and bank payments, based on payment policies and terms, manual and automated bank integrations and cash management, SOX Compliance and risk management. You will conduct the Concur Admin role liaising with SAP Concur for support and reporting requests, provision Concur user access, conduct Concur configuration to meet country allowances and develop Concur (Cognos) reports to meet business requirements. You would also be supporting current and future Accounts Payable solutions for electronic invoicing and invoice verification, invoice scanning (Kofax) and bank payment processes and other process optimizations (Dynamic Discounting and Supply Chain Finance). You will act as a liaison between the sourcing, accounts payable and IT departments, ensuring that the SAP system aligns with the organization's Accounts Payable goals and policies. This position is expected to engage with the business and analyse and delineate requirements, draft and review function specifications, configure SAP and Concur systems for the AP & EEM functional areas, engage with development teams, plan and execute testing and eventually deploy and support the functionality in production.

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·Bachelor's degree

·18+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree and 8+ years of S/4 experience with an advanced degree

·Previous Medtronic experience

·Extensive experience in SAP projects, with a focus on end-to-end development, SAP BW/4 HANA, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP HANA database, SAP ECC.

·Expertise in Smart Data Integration for HANA.

·Experience integrating SAP / Non-SAP ERP platforms with SAP BW/4 HANA and upstream/downstream systems (including API Development)

·Strong cross-functional knowledge on HANA Database, SAP Functional (esp. Finance and Sales), and other SAP technologies and able to translate those skills into technical solutions for issue resolution.

·Deep understanding of ABAP skills is required.

·Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

·Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

·Proven ability to work independently and in a team.

·Prior Pharma and/or Medical Device experience