Sr. SAP Functional Analyst FICO

About the Company

Simplot is a family-owned, privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho. Its integrated portfolio includes food processing and food brands, phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, farming, ranching and cattle production, and other agriculture-related enterprises. Simplot operates in nine countries with products and services available worldwide.

About the Role

The Senior SAP Functional Analyst - FICO / Record-to-Report will serve as a functional expert for SAP Finance capabilities in the global S/4HANA landscape. This role guides solution direction, supports complex design decisions, participates in roadmap priorities, and provides functional guidance across delivery, stabilization, production support, and continuous improvement. The Senior Analyst must understand end-to-end finance processes and integration points connecting Record-to-Report with adjacent business capabilities. The role requires deep SAP Finance expertise, practical leadership, strong judgment, clear communication, a coaching mindset, and the ability to drive alignment across complex dependencies. This position reports onsite to Simplot HQ in Boise, ID.

Responsibilities

• Guide and participate in solution design, configuration strategy, testing, deployment readiness, stabilization, and continuous improvement for assigned areas.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Source-to-Pay, Quote-to-Cash, Make-to-Deploy, Forecast-to-Schedule, reporting/analytics, tax, treasury, and relevant non-SAP platforms.
• Partner with IT Product Managers and Business Portfolio Owners to shape roadmaps, prioritize backlogs, define outcomes, identify dependencies, evaluate risks, and support business value realization.
• Provide production support for escalations, including critical incident triage, root cause analysis, problem management, escalation facilitation, defect resolution, enhancement assessment, and knowledge management.
• Collaborate with architecture, development, integration, QA, data, security, reporting, AMS, and vendor teams to ensure complete, scalable, secure, and supportable solutions.
• Communicate complex solution options, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations in a concise and business-readable manner for leadership, product teams, and stakeholders.
• Utilize agile methodologies for continuous delivery of solutions, emphasizing rapid deployment and validation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from a 4-year college or university.
• 7+ years of experience as an SAP Functional Analyst or comparable role supporting SAP FICO / Finance capabilities.
• Strong hands-on experience with Fiori tools and S/4HANA environments (1809, 1909, 2020).
• Deep understanding of finance processes such as general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, asset accounting, controlling, profit center accounting, cost center accounting, financial close, or related Record-to-Report capabilities.
• Good understanding of integration patterns between SAP and non-SAP products, and experience utilizing these patterns in business process enablement.
• Experience with SAP Solution Manager in a Dev/Ops environment.
• Experience working in agile, product delivery, DevOps, or hybrid delivery models using structured backlog, sprint, release, and governance practices.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical and functional complexity into clear business language.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

Skills

• Deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA Universal Journal (ACDOCA), New General Ledger, Ledgers and Extension Ledgers, Parallel Accounting (US GAAP, IFRS, Local GAAP), Profit Center Accounting, Segment Reporting, real-time integration between FI and CO, Group Reporting, and Financial Consolidation.
• Practical leadership, strong judgment, clear communication, coaching mindset, and ability to drive alignment across complex dependencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Treasury, Tax, or OpenText VIM.
• Ability to write functional specs and design custom objects for business-specific requirements, collaborating with development teams.
• Overall working knowledge of ecosystems connecting with SAP S/4HANA Business Suite.
• Knowledge of SAP Accounts Payable processes, including vendor invoice management, payment processing, withholding tax, duplicate invoice prevention, exception handling, and integration with OpenText VIM.
• Understanding of Treasury and Cash Management processes, including bank account management, electronic bank statement processing, cash positioning, liquidity planning, payment approvals, and interfaces with banking platforms.
• Knowledge of SAP Tax configuration and processes, including indirect tax (VAT/GST), withholding tax, sales and use tax determination, tax reporting, and integration with third-party tax engines.
• Understanding of finance controls and compliance requirements related to vendor payments, tax reporting, bank reconciliations, segregation of duties, and audit support.
• Understanding of end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes and key finance integration points between Materials Management (MM), Accounts Payable, OpenText VIM, Treasury, Tax, and General Ledger accounting.
• Knowledge of automatic account determination, financial posting logic, document splitting, parallel ledgers, and financial impacts from upstream procurement, logistics, and inventory transactions.
• Understanding of intercompany accounting processes, intercompany vendor transactions, cross-company payments, and impacts on financial consolidation and reporting.
• Understanding of SAP Central Finance architecture, including source-to-target data replication, financial document harmonization, master data governance, mapping frameworks, and financial reporting consolidation.
• Knowledge of Central Finance integration touchpoints across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, non-SAP ERP systems, SLT replication, AIF monitoring, and financial reconciliation processes.
• Understanding of migration and transformation concepts related to finance process standardization, chart of accounts harmonization, business partner adoption, and enterprise reporting requirements.

Travel Required: Less than 10%. Location: Simplot Headquarters - Boise, ID.