S/4 HANA Senior Finance Business Analyst
An opportunity has arisen for a S/4 HANA Senior Finance Business Analyst within Glanbia Enterprise Solutions. This role will be based in Kilkenny, Ireland or CityWest, Dublin, with a hybrid working arrangement available through our Smart Working model, offering greater flexibility and work-life balance. The successful candidate will report to the a Product Owner within our Digital Finance Team and will be voice of technical expertise in the team while interacting with the rest of the Glanbia business.
Key Elements of the Role
Lead end-to-end implementation and enhancement of SAP FI/CO solutions and related Finance systems.
Own design decisions for one or more core finance processes such as:
- Record-to-Report (R2R): GL, journals, allocations, intercompany, close, consolidation integration.
- Order-to-Cash (O2C): customer accounting, revenue recognition touchpoints, credit management integration (as applicable).
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P): vendor accounting, invoice processing, payments, withholding taxes, approvals integration.
- Asset Accounting (AA): capitalization, depreciation, transfers, retirements, integration with procurement
- Controlling (CO): Margin analysis, profitability reporting, product costing, allocations optimization.
- S/4 HANA transformation: Fiori, simplification items, parallel accounting.
Translate business requirements into scope documents, blueprints, functional specifications and collaborate with programming teams for enhancements, forms, interfaces, workflows, and reports.
What background and experience are we looking for?
- At least 10 year’s SAP implementation and configuration experience with multiple lifecycle implementations
- Ideally a Qualified Accountant with relevant Finance process knowledge & experience.
- Strong expertise across the SAP finance domain: FI (GL/AP/AR/AA) and CO (CCA/PCA/IO/COPA, allocations) in either SAP ECC or S/4 HANA.
- Basic ABAP coding knowledge, while not essential would be an advantage.
Core competencies
- Experience in addressing key business issues with IT solutions
- Ability to display a high degree of professionalism in dealing with business managers and users.
- Commercially focused, high levels of enthusiasm and energy.
- Flexibility to undertake international travel where required.
- The energy, enthusiasm and drive to make it happen.
- A team player who has the ability to motivate others, making it fun while getting the job done.
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced, innovative environment where the focus is on continuous improvement and the challenge to make it better.
- Competence in Training is a plus
- Excellent communications skills including listening skills a distinct advantage
Our Purpose & Values
At Glanbia we are dedicated to delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey. We differentiate ourselves by doing not only what is right for our business, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work. So if you’re looking to develop your career, stretch your ambitions and work for a company that has the ability to succeed on the world stage, ours is a journey you’ll want to share.
At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.
