Company Profile:

At AstraZeneca's Oncology Business Unit, we’re all here to make an impact – to achieve our bold ambition of eliminating cancer as a cause of death. We relentlessly follow the science, challenging the status quo to deliver more effective treatments to patients in need. Our dedication means we purposefully push back the limits of knowledge to change the practice of medicine. To ensure no patient is left behind, no matter what stage of disease. We’re brave disruptors – entrepreneurial, adventurous and pioneering in our approach. Here you have the opportunity to step up, take personal accountability and lead changes in our ever-evolving environment.

Job description:

Job Title: Lead S/4HANA Consultant – SAP FI/CO

Career Level - E

SAP Experience         : 12+ years

Location                     : Chennai

 

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

 

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

 

ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY TEAM

It’s a dynamic and results-oriented environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or redefining the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross- functionally and broadly together.

 

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

Axial is a strategic multi-year business transformation program helping AstraZeneca achieve its 2030 Bold Ambition. Axial will deliver the new backbone for our innovation, growth, and performance, and the technology driving Axial is SAP S/4HANA and its Business Technology Platform(s).

The Axial Technology team actively partners with our business colleagues to deliver cutting-edge technology capabilities to fulfil AstraZeneca’s bold ambition of delivering life changing medicines to patients. Our ambition is to provide best-in-class expertise and leadership in technological solutions and Information Delivery that empowers our colleagues in the field and accelerates and improves strategic decision-making for a diverse range of partners. The team engages with some of the most exciting business areas within AstraZeneca and is faced with solving for a variety of complex business and IT challenges.

 

ABOUT THE ROLE:

S/4 HANA Lead Consultant - FICO for a world leading pharmaceutical company which operates in over 100 countries and is head quartered in the United Kingdom. The candidate is expected to be a part of a functional team for a large S/4 Hana Program.

 

The candidate should possess broad functional knowledge in his/her domain and good technical knowledge in the FI and CO modules in both S4 and ECC. The candidate should have work experience in Product costing, WBS, APP, P2P/OTC integration, Bank Master & Business Partners

 

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities of Role

• As SAP FI/CO consultant, to cover from design to deployment across the project phases. 

• Ensuring integration between business process definition, SAP solution definition and SAP data objects definition

  • Facilitate workshops to collect business requirements and map business requirements & processes. Identify, interpret, validate and document business requirements. 

  • Work with stakeholders to ensure agreement with the design and support the passage of the solution design through the appropriate governance forums.

• Perform detailed analysis of business processes and Implement the Business solutions. 

 

Skills and Experience

Essential

•  Full life cycle S/4HANA Implementation experience is mandatory and should be certified in S/4HANA Finance and / or Controlling.

• In-depth functional understanding of their respective work stream.

• Good understanding of business processes in the life sciences / pharmaceutical domain.

• Ability to understand business requirements from business users, prepare functional specifications, perform configuration changes, assist technical teams (e.g. ABAP) in their work, perform system and integration testing

• Exposure is essential to highly customized SAP environments and working on interfaces with Non SAP systems.

• Very good understanding of integration of SAP modules and end to end business processes

• Experience in New Asset accounting, Material Ledger, Accrual Engine, COGS splitting & Margin Analysis, Month end Closing Cockpit, Account and Costing based COPA

• Data Migration with SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit or other tools

• Ability to work in large and globally diverse / distributed teams

• Exposure to Run SAP (Solution Manager) methodologies. 

• Experience of various Estimation Techniques will be an added advantage

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Well versed in English. Excellent spoken and written skills.

• Willingness to work in shifts and Working from Office.

• Proactive approach to problem solving. 

• Experience working in a Globally distributed team

Desirable 

• Awareness about SAP Activate, EML, Agile, JIRA, SAP Solution Manager, BPML & Testing Tools

• Exposure to SAP Project Systems

• Good presentation skills

Education Background

- Engineering Graduate or Postgraduate from reputed University