Finance Advisor SAP FICO at Shell Petroleum Development Company

What is the role?

• Provide world class Finance operations support to Shell Companies in Nigeria leveraging on cutting edge technology and top quartile technical skills.
• The role sits in the engine room that ensures the integrity and accuracy of the financial data of supported entities and ensuring that meaningful business insight can be derived therefrom. It requires laser sharp attention to detail coupled with an ability to zoom out and see the big picture.
• May operate in one or more of the broad activity areas in the Finance operations spectrum including: Business Reporting and Analysis, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Expenditure, Revenue, Treasury, Governance, Risk Mgt and Assurance amongst others.
• This role will provide in-team subject matter expertise, peer guidance and support to their immediate teams and the wider Finance operations function in general.
• The job location for this role is Lagos.

Accountabilities:

Support the functional lead and team in providing specialist expertise to Finance business area, and to take full advantage of the SAP implementation.

• Guide the Business on the best way to apply SAP in the management of relevant business processes in such a way as to realize the planned benefits of SAP
• Ability to interact and assist users with different level of SAP Skills
• Assess potential impact of organization changes on SAP use
• Participate in the development and review of training materials and support training delivery on best endeavor basis to increase SAP user effectiveness in FICO areas of the business.
• Actively promote efficient use of SAP and monitor its business impact in their areas of the business with a view to realizing the identified benefits.
• Evaluates proposed changes and improvement initiatives in corporate context.
• Monthly Management Information Reports/Dashboards preparation for various stakeholders
• Ensure SAP FICO and BW HANA solutions are fit for purpose and updated timely to meet business requirements.
• Standardization and automation of MI reports using PowerBi, Alteryx and other solutions.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure quality master and transaction data are available in SAP ECC and BW
• Developing aggressive training plans to block identified competence gaps among end users.
• Maintaining training sessions across Shell Companies in Nigeria (SEPCiN) locations; Individual is required to develop the training to grow SAP competence of SAP end users.
• Work with the Shell Central IT & Process Excellence team to ensure Nigeria requirements are covered.

SAP/BW Management

• Data Analytics and Visualization tools such as Excel, Power BI and Alteryx, Use of SAP (FI-CO) and Business Warehouse, Management Information and Reporting, IT knowledge or skill, Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Planning, Budgeting & Management Information Reporting

• Management Information Reporting/Dashboards, Reporting Template Maintenance and Standardization, Report automation using Macros and Visual Basic, Master and transaction data integrity and availability, Business Plan upload and update, Budget approval and cost recovery process support

What we need from you?

• Bachelor’s degree
• Must have an SAP Finance & Project Mgt. certifications.
• 3 to 10 years post-graduation work experience in ERP systems management with  a good understanding of financial concepts and standards.
• Use of SAP and Business Warehouse or other ERP and MI systems
• Management Information and reporting
• Stakeholder management and negotiation skills
• ERP and Management Information systems change management experience.