Act! Solution Architect Finance and Controlling - Product Ownership

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Your Role

Context and Mission

Within the Group IT Services organization of Atlas Copco and within the SAP Competence Center, the act! organization (‘Atlas Copco Together’) ensures that all customer centers for the business areas Compressor Technique, Power Technique and Industrial Tools in the different countries can rely on a legally compliant, performant, stable and well supported business application. act! is used on a global scale covering all time zones.

act! secures efficient Customer Center end to end processes governed by business councils. Together with these business councils, act! steers the digital roadmap of the CC’s and makes sure to realize this roadmap according to the right quality and cost.

act! enables efficient and effective integrations to support reorganizations, mergers & acquisitions roadmaps of the business areas in a standardized group solution

act! is part of the SAP Competence center and provides global implementation experience within the Group

The SAP ECC on Hana platform (EHP 8 with simple finance add on) is the core platform to enable this standardization, using the SD, MM, PS, PP, CS and FICO as the core SAP modules. It also includes SAP GTS for trade compliance purposes and SAP BRIM to support our rental business , SAP B/4 Hana (for reporting) and other platforms like Esker, MS Power Platform (workflows), Montova (electronic communication). The platform is also integrated with different group and business area specific applications using SAP PO, SAP BTP, Azure and KAFKA as integration platforms.

The role

Within act!, we are looking for a SAP Finance and Controlling Solution Architect with several years of proven SAP FICO experience, with a good functional (finance, controlling, and integration processes towards logistics, production and service), technical, data and reporting affinity and background . You will be part of a cross functional team responsible to deliver end to end consistent processes and solutions for the involved process area in line with business council requests. The team is as much as possible self-reliant, organized with agile or project principles depending on the scope and timeline.

The act! solution architect provides the necessary knowledge and leadership to create, steer and implement solution architecture principle and guidelines in the involved area. The solution architect guides and assists our internal and external stakeholders and team members in the involved knowledge area, and to drive and perform the delivery cycle of the assigned change requests. He/she can manage the delivery of your assigned scope as a project manager, taking up responsibility for in time, in full and in budget delivery. Bigger and broader scope projects might be assigned upon proven seniority.

You’re a member of a hive/project, reporting to your appointed manager, and steered by the responsible product owner, solution architect and scrum master.

You will be part of a community with peer solution architects, functional and technical analysts where you will drive and share best practices in alignment with the overall act! strategy.

 
To succeed, you will need  

What we can expect from you

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Product Owner and the Product Manager to ensure requirements gathering and a robust solution design
• Analyze and Understand Business and technical finance and controlling requirements: you will be responsible for understanding the business processes of the organization and support the identification of areas where the act! reporting systems can be utilized to build reports. This involves gathering requirements from stakeholders, conducting workshops, and finetuning business requirements and create based on this solution designs and follow up builds up to handover to support.
• Full Lifecycle Implementation and Support: Support and guidance of the act! SAP Finance and Controlling analyst starting from requirement gathering, analysis, solution design, developing solutions according to platform and architecture guidelines, testing, providing support in User acceptance testing and hyper care. Additionally, he/she will be an escalation point of contact to provide support to end-users, troubleshoot system issues.
• Work with suppliers, partners and varied stakeholders across the group in order to design E2E solutions, keeping architecture principles, implementation, reporting and supportability into account
• Participate in the Solution Architecture Community to assure template-wide consistency and sharing best practices
• Keep track of technology innovation and partner roadmaps and translating them into opportunities.
• Play a key role in the release process for the hive by preparing and coordinating the transports within the hive and participation in cross hive release meetings.
• Manage the communication and knowledge transfer to the support team as well as the M&A team
• Act as a contact point for support in case of complex technical questions or issues.
• Be a librarian and responsible for all required solution documents and technical documentation within your area.
• Facilitate the implementation process as a member of the Core Design Group (CDG) and Act Design Authority (DA)

Competences

• You have experience with stakeholder management and can effectively communicate ideas and recommendations orally and in writing, while considering the viewpoint of others.
• A customer centric individual who understands customers’ needs and seeks to fulfill or exceed expectations.
• A team player and natural diplomat who interacts and unites team members, customers, all stakeholders.
• A methodic and structured achiever, who can plan, organize, prioritize, assess, adapt and deliver the promise.
• A resilient person who can cope with change in an ever faster moving digital landscape and who can spread this attitude of self-sufficiency.
• An innovative "there is always a better way" person with a positive, flexible and responsive mindset who embraces and promotes digital transformation.
• Open-minded with a global mindset, curious to understand and learn new perspectives.
• A person who complies with our DNA => Commitment – Interaction – Innovation.

Technology Experience

• 5+ Years of IS/IT, finance and controlling and reporting related processes background. 
• General knowledge of SAP ERP Platforms. 
• Knowledge in SAP FICO: General finance modules (AR/AP/NewGL, AA, Banking, ..) and Controlling (COPA, COPC, …)
• Experience with PowerBI and other reporting solutions are a plus 
• Experience with S/4HANA is a plus 
• Ability to work in a structured way and effectively communicate with employees at all levels. 
• Project Management experience is a must, specifically the Agile methodology. 
• The ability to motivate people. 
• Good spoken and written communication skills with colleagues at all levels. 
• Showing a responsible attitude. 
• The ability to plan and prioritize your own work and having good coordination with the rest of the team, including close cooperation with offshore resources and the support team. 
• Comfortable working under pressure to tight deadlines. 

Education

• You hold a master’s degree in IT, Business economics or equivalent experience.
• You have excellent organizational and planning skills and strong analytical abilities.
• You have a positive attitude and good presentation skills to communicate complex technical information into understandable business language.
• You are familiar with the principles of Agile methodology.
• You communicate effectively in English and are prepared to make short trips abroad when needed.

In return, we offer you

What you can expect from us

• A challenging process and SAP centric landscape with room for innovation
• A friendly, family-like atmosphere 
• Plenty of opportunities to grow and develop
• A culture known for respectful interaction, ethical behavior and integrity
• An organization that uses diversity as a driver of performance
• Potential to see your ideas realized and to make an impact
• New challenges and new things to learn every day
• Ability for work from home  (flexibility can be offered depending on the assigned tasks)

Diverse by nature and inclusive by choice
Bright ideas come from all of us. The more unique perspectives we embrace, the more innovative we are. Together we build a culture where difference is valued and we share a deep sense of purpose and belonging.