SENIOR IT PROFESSIONAL - APPLICATIONS (FICO)

Applications accepted from: ALL PERSONSJob Classification: SR. IT PROFESSIONAL - APPLICATIONS (FICO) Posting Number: 26782 Department: Houston Information Technology Services (HITS) Division: HITS - Enterprise Application Services - ERP Reporting Location: 611 Walker Workdays & Hours: Monday - Friday; 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.* *Subject to Change In order to meet the City''s financial businesses'' changing needs this role is critical for the ongoing support and maintenance of the City''s core financial system, SAP, in the following SAP modules and other third-party applications in order to meet business needs that are aligned with the overall technology direction in the following core areas, among other areas: DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSResponsible for supporting the City of Houston with SAP FICO processes and configurations, e.g., SAP Finance and Controlling, Funds Management, Grants Management, Fixed Assets, Project Systems, Treasury, etc.Understand complex finance functions in order to assist the business in the development and modernization of critical finance systems and processes, due to the roles requirement of being a finance SAP FICO subject matter expert (SME) requiring broad and deep ERP-SAP FICO experience. Assist the business in automation, optimization, and innovation finance related processes using the City''s SAP finance system and related third party applications.Serve as an application expert and support users in their daily, month end and year end processes using SAP.Ability to evaluate and analyze the impact of configuration and process changes across other FI/CO and SAP modules.Responsible for supporting finance business users and controllership to clearly capture new requests for SAP finance code block, master data changes, etc. Provide governance and oversight for critical finance interfaces, including IDOC and batch process monitoring and resolution.Serving as a SME in one or more business areas, provide analytic support to all user departments of the SAP accounting services. Including develop ad-hoc custom reports and data extracts for management.Experience creating detailed documentation, test scripts, and user training to support business processes and new development. Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to make timely and sound decisions based on logical assumptions and factual-information.Knowledge of and ability to use testing methodologies, processes and tools for testing of functionality, including unit, integration, system, regression and dry run testing. Coordinate execution of project tasks in your functional area and be comfortable in working under the pressure of tight project deadlines.Supporting the City''s Fiscal Year End (FYE), as well as ensuring effective day-to-day operations and success of critical interfaces to banks, e.g., JPMorgan, etc. WORKING CONDITIONSThis position is physically comfortable; the individual has discretion about walking, standing, etc. There are no major sources of discomfort, i.e., essentially normal office environment with acceptable lighting, temperature and air conditions.? Significant time spent using computer display, keyboard, and mouse. Operates a motor vehicle.

Created: 2021-11-29