BCG—IT Business & Technical Analysis Manager

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Description: Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. What You'll Do The Finance and Procurement Product Portfolio plays a critical role at the intersection of BCG’s Global Finance and IT functions. Its purpose is to deliver best-in-class financial systems that enable the organization to transact efficiently and responsibly, capture, enrich, and report core financial data to BCG’s business leaders, and comply with the complex fiscal requirements of a multinational organization. The portfolio also ensures that its platforms provide exceptional user experience, aligns with BCG’s global IT enterprise architecture and security standards, and minimizes the total cost of operations. It embraces the latest technologies and Agile ways of working to enhance financial systems and deliver business value at scale. BCG’s global finance function is undergoing a major transformation, with technology serving as a core enabler. A key part of this transformation is the deployment of SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud as the firm’s global ERP platform. This new platform creates exciting opportunities in Global IT Analyst Manager – Finance . In this role, you will work closely with the global finance organization to drive an efficient period-end close through continuous improvement, further expansion of SAP capabilities, increased automation, and the use of cutting-edge technologies such as generative AI. You will ensure the accounting transactions are recorded correctly in system, maintain system configurations with recent business and functional changes. To deliver results, you will collaborate with stakeholders, including functional Business Process Owners, to understand business priorities, help them translate them into a product roadmap, prioritize a backlog of enhancements, and build business cases for potential improvement. Leveraging your expertise in finance, accounting, and SAP, and following Agile principles, you will break down enhancements into meaningful segments of work for your squad to deliver and will track progress toward the desired outcomes. What You'll Bring - Experience as Finance System Manager on SAP Products - Finance Domain experience with Engineering/Technical background Or a Master’s/MBA finance & accounting - 7-8yrs experience in SAP S/4 Hana - Technical and Functional expertise in understanding Finance functional data flows - A very professional communication and stakeholder management skills - Certification in SAP ERP or Products would be preferred. Who You'll Work With - Members of your team and external resources across different functional areas - Functional Business Process Owners, superusers and technical team members translating issues into solutions - Squad Chapter Lead who will be your line manager and help coordinate work across SAP squads - Chapter Lead will help setup the vision and roadmap in your workstream and would align the operations engineering squad overall tribe vision set by Technical Area Lead - Learn and share best practices and ensure alignment between team members and squads Additional info YOU'RE GOOD AT Key Responsibility Areas - Production support of SAP Financials (SAP S/4 Hana, Public Cloud) with focus on FI modules within SAP - Develop detailed understanding of the SAP Financials solution handed over by system integration partner and build capability to manage system configurations. - Problem Solving attitude and should be capable of performing detailed analysis for complex business problems and provide appropriate solutions to stakeholders - Identify, Interpret, validate functional specification shared by product development team and create support model - Conduct sessions with customer to understand the system problems and design requirement gaps document those for product owners to fix and deliver them to end user - System defects should have experience working with SAP to initiate OSS Cases/Incidents as required escalate and get the hot fixes deployed as needed - Testing and Release of upgrade related changes in SAP S4 Hana system landscape and align impact of changes on the functional process with process/technical owners - Understanding about Agile concept of Project Delivery - Participate in transformation meetings as we go-live in other markets - Develop Subject Matter Expertise and create knowledge support documentation for mentoring to other team members. Functional & Technical Expertise - Experienced profession with at least 7-8yrs experience as SAP FI Consultant. - Expert understanding of various components within the Financial Accounting (FI) module such as General Ledger (FI-GL), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Intercompany, Tax and Enterprise Structure as well as their integration with other SAP Modules like SD, AP would be added advantage. - Expertise in managing the Month End period close activities with global finance function - Execute and deploy necessary system configuration changes in SAP as per the business requirements - Trouble shooting application jobs and fixing system issues - Deep understanding of the Business Partner concept, Bank Account Management, Cash Position and Cash Flow Analysis - Experience working on FIORI apps, S/4 HANA preferred - Certification in SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting is desired At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person collaboration plays an important role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development. For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on business needs and in line with local policies and practices. We aim to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork. Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify. Skills: sap s/4hana, sap fi consultant, financial accounting, asset accounting, month end close, sap fi-gl, sap fi-aa, intercompany accounting, tax, enterprise structure, sap sd, sap ap, sap fi-enterprise structure, sap fi-intercompany, sap fi-tax