Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst - UIPlanner

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Job description

Pay rate range: $120k-180k/yr.

Job Details:

Position: Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst - UIPlanner

Location: 300 Lakeside Dr, Oakland, CA, USA 94612

Duration: DIRECT HIRE

Description:

STRAIGHT FTE/ Client's DIRECT HIRE ACTUAL TITLE:

Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst - UIPlanner -

Oakland, CA, US, 94612

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Onsite

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments that collaborate effectively to deliver high-quality technology solutions. The SAP Electric Ops Work Management Delivery organization provides SAP IT services to the Electric line of business. The organization is responsible for strategic technology planning, roadmap development, solution design, solution delivery, and solution support.

Position Summary

The role IT SAP Functional Analyst UIPlanner is to configure, implement, maintain, and upgrade UI Planner all modules.

The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents, and performs UI Planner system configuration and localization to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations. This role is viewed as an integral strategic partner and business liaison in technology decisions and provides ongoing UI Planner system support. This includes analyzing business requirements and developing integrated IT and complex business solutions.

Client is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. We would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would land at or near the top half of the range described below, but the decision will be dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

This position requires at least 3 days in-person in office. Working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the Client Service Territory.

Responsibilities

Business Support and Consulting:

Define standard processes in UIPlanner and drive adaptation in Finance areas.

Analyze end-to-end complex business processes across all modules within UIPlanner

Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new UIPlanner capabilities.

Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross- organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.

Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

Functional Analysis:

Automate/optimize UIPlanner system.

Map business requirements to SAP S4 / SAP BW4HANA system capabilities and configure to meet requirements.

Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution.

Perform UIPlanner configuration and do quality review and testing activities.

Qualifications

Minimum:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience

10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology

8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in UIPlanner system

Project creation, estimating, approval

Desired:

Creating checks and balances to prevent data issues in automated processes

Month-End Close Processes

UIPlanner Integration Tools

SDLC and Integration Best Practices/ETL processes

Expertise in UIPlanner Financial Model, including calculation configuration, report construction, inbound and outbound interface design, and system design and best practices

Preferred expertise in additional UIPlanner Modules including Regulatory and Rate Design, PlannerDash, Shared Tables, Capital Planning, Budget, Plant Book / Plant Tax, and Customer Revenue

Experience managing IT transformation and software implementation projects

Expertise in SQL and Database architecture for UIPlanner interfaces

Ability to investigate reported issues, isolate causes, and deploy fixes with a quick turn-around

Ability to act as liaison between finance and IT teams and outside vendors

Ability to design and execute training plans and create user guides and related documentation

Broad understanding of Utility Finance and Regulated Accounting for Electric and Gas Utilities

In-depth understanding of utility accounting concepts such as deferred accounting, CWIP/AFUDC, rate base, revenue requirements, rate design, decoupling.

Experience with Rate Case processes as well as general Regulatory and Government Affairs activities

Background or experience in Financial Forecasting or experience on a Utility FP&A team preferred

Familiarity with PowerPlan, SAP, Oracle, and other accounting and ERP systems for utilities

Proven track record of being able to design and implement end-to-end processes in UIPlanner, including requirements gathering, project planning, application configuration and report design, and interface construction

Development experience in Java preferred.

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