S4 Release 1 Cfin / Reporting Lead

Job Description

Overview

SAP S4 HANA Release 1 Reporting Lead

Current WBD employees will be given preferential consideration for this opportunity. This position will only be posted for five business days.

Location(s): DC, New York, Knoxville, Atlanta, Burbank

Responsibilities

What you will be doing:
• Develop release specific work plan (toolset scope: SAP's Central Finance, Master Data Governance, Group Reporting); works closely with the S4 Business Integration Lead and S4 Project Manager in finalizing scope, timeline and overall management of release deployment to ensure that solution is meeting business, functional and technical requirements
• Manage Release specific risks, actions, issues, decisions including escalation responsibility, removing impediments to progress and working with project leadership to develop path to green
• Develop release testing cycles entrance and exit criteria for each test cycle in collaboration with the S4 Program Management Office and process leads
• Coordinate with S4 Organizational Change Management team to ensure communications are development and issued to stakeholders of key release timelines, impacts, testing, training and readiness
• Assist in the outline of roles and resources required to support Release tools on an ongoing and post Release business as usual support mode
• Responsible for managing Release finance hypercare support and smooth transition to business as usual applicable management support

Knowledge Skills & Abilities
• Ability to navigate across finance, business and technical organization(s)
• Strategic Thinker
• Capable of driving work, outcomes and decisions for a workstream

Qualifications

What you need to have:
• Minimum 5 years experience in General Accounting / Record to Report, Financial Reporting
• Previous project implementation / management experience
• Accounting, Finance, Reporting background

It's a plus if you have:
• Understanding of Corporate Consolidations

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rbjjjy-3-145-60-166-42 in your application.