Senior SAP Finance Functional Expert

Job title:

Senior SAP Finance Functional Expert

Company:

Santen

Job description

Company DescriptionAs a global specialized company dedicated to ophthalmology, Santen carries out research, development, marketing, and sales of pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products, and medical devices that benefit patients in over 60 countries. Santen’s long-term vision is to become a social innovator in ophthalmology and address social and economic issues related to eye health by strategically exploring advancing technologies and collaborating with key leaders around the world. Underpinned by its people-centric values, Santen aims to ultimately deliver happiness with vision – a life with the best vision experience for every individual around the world. With scientific knowledge and organizational capabilities nurtured over 130 years, Santen provides products and services to contribute to the well-being of patients, their loved ones and consequently to society.Santen is in an exciting phase of growth with a market leading portfolio of products in glaucoma and dry eye treatment – areas in which our portfolio serves every stage and type of disease. We are also growing our range in eye infections, allergies, and devices for vision correction and glaucoma surgery.This is an exciting time for us and we want exceptional people to be a part of it. More than just a part of it – we want your talent to drive our growth and grow with us. Because it’s our people that make our vision a reality; it’s their passion, creativity and expertise that makes a difference to patients’ lives, every day.If you’re motivated by new opportunities, if you’re ready for new challenges, and if you believe in doing business responsibly and staying true to your values, you may be the perfect candidate for a role at Santen.https://www.santen.eu/careersJob DescriptionJob’s missionDigital and Information Technology (DIT) department has worldwide responsibility for all IT processes, solutions and services. The aim is to further enhance Santen functions by delivering common solutions and services.Global business solutions (GBS) covers the management of business relationships and the design, development and implementation of common solutions by following a consistent methodology.The SAP Senior Functional Expert (SFE) reports to the SAP Centre of Excellence (CoE) Head. He/she is responsible for building and delivering expertise and support related to a specific application / functional domain. These are typically related to finance, supply chain, quality, manufacturing, processes. The SFE is responsible for the design and built of IT Solutions taking into account the lifecycle management of specific applications that are in scope of the Centre of Excellence and has a key role in projects related to the implementation and changing of those solutions. In managing the lifecycle the SFE balances costs effectiveness with the functional and technical fit of the solution. The SFE actively seeks for improvement opportunities in business processes and IT enablement.The SFE has generic knowledge about and experience with all per CoE relevant topics but is specialized in one functional domain e.g. finance or supply chain.Within any activity the SFE will need to manage project-related items within the allocated tasks to his/her area of expertise in accordance with our delivery standards. Within the area of expertise a SFE may also be allocated and expected to manage project management tasks on the assigned activities.The Senior SAP Functional Expert is expected to:

• Understand and interpret financial information to ensure value driven decision are made and the impact to the organisation clearly articulated
• Understand the end to end service not just the technical or functional components and business impact from a user’s perspective
• Own the technical architecture and delivery of the assigned domain E.g. Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, Manufacturing, etc
• Develop win-win, collaborative relations that add clear value to all internal and external stakeholders
• Actively embrace and promote change, especially from a business perspective
• Lead by example and actively engage and motivate individuals around them

Key Responsibilities & AccountabilitiesProcess Excellence

• Act as “technical” owner and guardian of the Global template for the assigned domain
• Grow maturity of application management team and broader DIT departments providing insight into the technical setup of the template
• Ensure execution of governance decision and planned implementation by AMS and other suppliers
• Build and promote a knowledge repository in close collaboration with other (Senior) Functional Experts

Solution Optimisation

• Solution Architecture of the whole domain (robust, scalable and supportable), customer centric and across the product life cycle, using best practices and innovation, stick to standard and avoid high customization if no business rationale exists (consider options vs effort/benefits/long term impacts)
• Provides subject matter expertise, and guidance on solution standards in the assigned SAP domain.
• Shape the long-term technical application strategy, roadmap, innovations/update in line with the Lead Architect
• Raise technology related scope change requests aligned with overall governance and roadmap
• Actively seek opportunities for improvement and innovation related to potential new IT solutions to support business and IT requirements

Delivery Capability

• Deliver on promise, manage (project) changes and technical deployment with clear communication on progress and challenges (incl. testing)
• Signal and judge appropriateness of new IT developments, systems, applications and processes and provide advice on potential improvement opportunities and the (dis) advantages of implementation.
• Perform the analyses and impact study in case of new requirements related to the SAP assigned domain, coming from new initiatives, projects or change requests.
• Take on an active role in the definition, design, construction, testing and implementation of SAP assigned domain
• Take responsibility for SAP assigned domain and promote the use of the solution and guard the solution integrity
• Provides knowledge to others during design work to ensure any complexities needing incorporated into the future build or data mappings are not overlooked.
• Coordinate and provide (end user) training related to new or changed application features that are supported by SAP CoE
• Contribute to and ensure a smooth and planned handover of assigned SAP domain solutions to Global Operations (AMS)
• Drive SolMan change request, coordinate approvals, validation, testing, and cutover (change coordination role).
• Update lifecycle documentation and ensure approval of SLDC documents

Application Health

• Provide proactive oversight and support on operational issues, root cause analysis, propose potential solutions and support the implementation of improvements to assigned SAP domain (L3).
• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability aspects when implementing technical solutions

Business Engagement

• Translation of business demands, support requirement analysis to ensure cost effective and fit for purpose solution (gaps as-is to-be; documentations; impact on existing processes, required budget, technology required)
• Actively support the business partners, portfolio manager and other experts in verifying the impact and value of IT changes to business processes and vice versa
• Partner with PMO and portfolio manager in managing governance bodies support of the process leads (e.g. CAB, PGB)
• Steer the key user network, support key user onboarding in alignment with process lead

QualificationsEDUCATION

• SAP certification in the applicable expertise area
• Bachelor or Masters degree in IT or Business
• PMP, Prince2 or equivalent certification

EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience managing SAP global applications with strong track record of design and architecting across the relevant solutions whether deployed on-premises or in public or private cloud
• Partnership with demanding business, project, operation and maintenance stakeholders to enable business value achievement and manage portfolio of solution demands.
• Preferably you have done a similar role in SAP CoE and pharma environment.

Additional InformationCompetencies

• Deep understanding of legacy SAP and related products
• In-depth knowledge of current SAP technologies (e.g. S/4HANA, SAC, BTP, Concur)
• Strong SAP functional and technical expertise, with a good understanding of integration touch-points between modules and applications
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Drive for result and sustainable value achievement
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Engage and manage DIT / business stakeholders expectations
• Standardization mindset and best practice sharing
• Good questioning skills with the confidence to challenge and probe
• Manage multiple Project Management and Resource planning
• Manage vendors for implementation, operation and maintenance
• Orchestrate various remote, internal / external IT teams to ensure on time solution delivery
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
• Speaks English fluently (Japanese a plus)

Santen SA, the Netherlands Branch has an exclusive arrangement for recruitment services. External recruiting agencies are kindly requested not to contact us regarding the positions listed here.If you require any kind of accommodation during our recruitment process, please let the recruiter from our team know.

Expected salary

Location

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Job date

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 03:26:17 GMT

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