Lead Process & Solutions Finance Analyst

Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO) is a leading producer of packaged bakery goods in the United States, with 2024 sales of $5.1 billion. We craft moments of joy through brands like Nature's Own, Wonder, Dave's Killer Bread, Canyon Bakehouse, and Tastykake. Our culture values Honesty & Integrity, Respect & Inclusion, Sustainability, Passion, and Humility.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and medical benefits
• 401(k) Retirement savings plan
• Professional growth and leadership training
• Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave

Benefits may vary depending on your work location.

About the role

This position is responsible for the execution of SAP Financials solutions and services, including projects, enhancements, and application support in collaboration with Flowers business and internal IT partners. The role involves managing multiple financial accounting subprocesses and requires expertise in finance, management accounting, and SAP functional submodules such as GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Internal Orders, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Product Costing, Project Systems, FS-CM, BPC, or Hyperion.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize project, enhancement, and support requests with business and IT stakeholders and manage delivery.
• Develop systems requirements, design, configure, prototype, and work with IT teams to implement changes. Collaborate with finance users to test, train, define support procedures, and roll out SAP FICO business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Create functional design documents for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions. Develop business process functional diagrams, test plans, test scripts, and training documentation.
• Execute SAP FICO functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management, SAP CoE teams, SAP managed services providers, and related third-party application service providers.
• Ensure consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP financial and management accounting applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance, and reference architectures.
• Assist in evaluating functionality enhancements in SAP FICO upgrades and work with the infrastructure and operations team to manage roll-outs.
• Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues. Seek continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations.
• Assess the impact of emerging SAP and other IT technologies in your area of expertise against strategic business needs and interpret business value for IT management.
• Perform other duties as deemed integral by management, including adherence to work schedules, attendance policies, and applicable operating rules.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in SAP FICO application design, development, quality assurance, testing, training, implementation, and support processes.
• 1+ years of experience in an IT management and leadership role.
• 1+ full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO and related integrations and bolt-ons such as SAP BPC (or Hyperion), Blackline, Vertex, and other third-party supporting applications using ASAP, Agile, and other SDLC methodologies.
• Experience leading SAP FICO processes and integrating with end-to-end process design.
• Experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
• Full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO experience in North America.
• Experience integrating SAP FICO solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate bachelor's or postgraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or Business Administration.
• CPA preferred.

Pay

Salary Range: $115,000 - $130,000