SAP IS-U Billing & Rates Lead - Utilities Industry
About the role
We are seeking an experienced SAP IS-U Billing & Rates Team Lead with strong expertise in Utilities business processes and SAP IS-U solution design/configuration. This role involves performing hands-on configuration and support for SAP IS-U Billing and Rates, coordinating with technical teams for enhancements, interfaces, and defect resolution, leading and mentoring a team of SAP IS-U consultants and analysts, collaborating with business users, product owners, and project stakeholders to understand business requirements, conducting workshops and providing functional recommendations aligned with utility business processes, communicating status updates, risks, and dependencies effectively, supporting SIT, UAT, go-live, and HyperCare activities, participating in production support and incident management, ensuring compliance with project governance and delivery standards, and managing travel.
Responsibilities
- Perform hands-on configuration and support for SAP IS-U Billing and Rates.
- Configure and maintain:
- Rate categories and rate determination
- Operands and schemas
- Billing master data
- Billing variants and invoicing processes
- Support complex billing scenarios and tariff changes.
- Analyze and resolve billing exceptions, invoicing issues, and rate-related defects.
- Participate in requirement gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment activities.
- Collaborate with technical teams for enhancements, interfaces, and defect resolution.
- Lead and mentor a team of SAP IS-U consultants and analysts.
- Review deliverables and ensure adherence to quality standards and timelines.
- Support knowledge transfer and capability development within the team.
- Collaborate with business users, product owners, and project stakeholders to understand business requirements.
- Conduct workshops and provide functional recommendations aligned with utility business processes.
- Communicate status updates, risks, and dependencies effectively.
- Support SIT, UAT, go-live, and HyperCare activities.
- Participate in production support and incident management.
- Ensure compliance with project governance and delivery standards.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years experience supporting the Utilities Industry.
- A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in SAP IS-U Billing and Rates Configuration including but not limited to:
- Strong functional knowledge of:
- SAP IS-U Billing
- Invoicing
- Rate configuration
- Experience with:
- Operand configuration
- Schema setup
- Rate determination
- Billing master data
- A minimum of 2 years proficiency with utility business processes.
- A minimum of 2 years experience working in an implementation, rollout and AMS support project.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of SAP FICA, Device Management, or EDM integration is a plus.
- Experience in Agile delivery model is a plus.
- Exposure to S/4HANA Utilities programs is a plus.
- A SAP IS-U certification is a plus.
Skills
The ideal candidate will have a passion for storytelling, a strong ability to originate and deliver SAP-based Customer, Sales and Services Transformation projects, and a desire to work with the best companies in their industries. They should be able to spot and stay ahead of SAP platform, industry, and Customer, Sales and Services trends, and translate client goals into clear and actionable outcomes.
Benefits
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
Pay
Annual Salary Range: Varies based on location.
Schedule
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirement.