IT Applications Specialist - FICO

At Amcor we are inspired to change the packaging industry and are taking on the aspirational challenge to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Through our products and global footprint, we are in a unique position to truly make a difference in the packaging space. Our products impact the lives of millions of people across the globe every day from food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other essential products. Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860's and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.

Will you be next to join our journey towards a more sustainable future?At Amcor we are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to providing sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visitwww.amcor.com.

About the role

The FICO Application Specialist takes the lead on strategic initiatives, navigating large projects with finesse using Amcor's Project Management Methodology. From handling SAP cFIN and Finance to Controlling, FSCM, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, and Asset Accounting, they're the go-to for seamless Roll-out projects, blending Business Consulting and Solution Delivery effortlessly. As a Strategic Advisor, they bridge the gap between IT and business stakeholders, tackling problems, assessing impacts, documenting requirements, configuring applications, leading testing, and ensuring clear communication. Join us and be the driving force behind impactful outcomes

Key Job Accountabilities

• Work with Finance stakeholders to understand specific business processes, business drivers and business strategy across multiple areas while being able to instinctively recommend to-be-solutions to resolve new business needs.

• Identify, propose, initiate and lead significant improvement projects for IT. Defines requirements for the implementation of changes in business functions and supporting IT services.

• Analyze and document business requirements in Finance and Responsible for delivery of IT projects

• Lead strategic projects that drive value (cost improvement and/or top line growth)

• Lead the writing of functional requirements, configures, develops test plans and scripts, conducts component, integration and user acceptance tests. Lead data conversion, data validation efforts, cut over activities, and post live support for system implementations.

• Coordinate and facilitate business stakeholder engagement and user acceptance testing for Finance and Accounting.

• Proactively evaluate opportunities to streamline and optimize existing business processes

• Offer consultation to business stakeholders bringing new ideas and best practices to help the company become more effective with IT systems

• Manage advanced production support issues and service requests using ServiceNow while committing to timely resolution and SLA adherence. Lead major incident events.

• Analyze, resolve and documents system changes needed because of defects, enhancements, incidents, missing requirements or other root causes

• Develop and assist in the presentation of business cases and system roadmaps

• Manage day-to-day interactions with vendors and collaborate to complete required tasks.

• Provide level 3 support to issues raised by Helpdesk or Business Support teams.

Project Delivery

• Prepare, organize & drive workshops with business key users to collect and discuss business requirements together (Depending on projects, external consultants may drive delivery and role becomes advisory)

• Performs system testing taking into account the business requirements, and as well supports solution documentation according to Amcor standards . When leading externals validates the solution adherence to Amcor standards and consistency with overall solution

• Participate in project planning discussions and clear define dependencies in WBS

• Provide guidance through the implementation of the SAP solution

• Identify/anticipate roadblocks and communicate it to PMO; Collabrate with Senior managers and work towards successful delivery of project.

• Provide key-user or end-user support during and after go-live

• Advise other project members in terms of desired evolutions & value creation at stake

Qualifications/Requirements

• BS or MA in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, Accounting or a related field

• Minimum 10-12 years of experience in SAP FICO (FI - GL, AP, AR, AA and Banking modules, CO - CCA, PCA) configuration, development. Nice to have experience in CO - Profitability Analyasis and Product costing

• Minimum 2 years of experience in S/4 HANA, cFIN, EMEA legal requirements

• Understanding of Third party tools like Opentext VIM, Winshuttle

• Good Understanding of RICEF objects - development, test cases.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in IT project management/business analysis

• Experience managing Customer relationships at various organizational levels.

• Experience with formal SDLC methodology desired, as well as with system validation processes

• Strong end to end business process knowledge

• Strong understanding of SAP master and transactional data and reporting interdependencies

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We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor's quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor's consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor's leadership and products

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