UI Planner Functional Analyst
Axelon Services Corporation
Oakland, CA
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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Oakland, CA
POSTED
11 days ago
Oakland, CA
Will Sponser H1
Will provide relocation
A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $140,000.00
MIDPOINT: $189,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $238,000.00
The position I have is for an IT Principal (min 10 years exp) who will be responsible for building models, creating business rules, and managing data imports from other systems and so on, as we plan to redesign the entire application
Description:
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 UIPlanner all modules.
The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents, and performs UIPlanner 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.
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 Designclient 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 baseclient revenue requirements, rate designclient 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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