SAP Finance Consultant

About the job

At GBfoods we offer culinary solutions in several countries of Europe and Africa with prestigious leading local brands, including Jumbo, Gallina Blanca, Erasco, Gino, Liebig, Star, Bama, D&L, Grand'Italia and Blå Band, among others. GBfoods Africa operates in 24 countries with a Regional office in Accra - Ghana.

Our Purpose “Celebrating local flavours” is to empower and take care of each of the local communities we belong to and to bring out their authentic flavours. Some of our local brands have been in consumers' kitchens for over a century and have positioned themselves as authentically loved brands, as well as deeply rooted parts of the local culture.

Today, with a turnover of around 1,5 billion euros and a team of around 3,300 people, we are the preferred choice of millions of consumers.



Reporting to the Corporate IT PMO:

The SAP Finance Consultant will be based in our regional office in Accra with the responsibility of providing support to current business units in Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Algeria, West Africa, and Central-East Africa) and future integration of new countries which includes finance applications maintenance and evolution, SAP FI & COPA and new implementation tools and contribute to drive our Finance landscape into the future.

Key Responsibilities:



Manage implementation of new developments/enhancements in collaboration with external E2E delivery including analysis, design, develop, testing, user training and documentation review.
Participate in the definition of business requirements and perform gap analysis between finance requirements and SAP FICO standard functionalities.
Perform analysis of impacts in current finance systems due to changes requested or new projects.
Close cooperation with global and local finance process owners to design future-oriented processes until completion.
Provides guidance and information to business partners on system capabilities and challenge current finance.
Ensures Quality delivery of development from external resources.
Coordinate with Regional IT Manager on the interaction between applications-infrastructure in the different projects.
First point of Call for escalation in Applications and IT&BP issues.
Understand processes across the organization to efficiently coordinate the IT applications and business processes that run the company day to day.
Ensure coordination with corporate team to ensure corporate processes are correctly implemented in the Business Units.
Help the rest of the support Team to assess the impact, urgency and criticality of the incidents and improvement requests reported by business.
Take accountability in the finance area to act as SAP Consultant Support.


What can you expect from us?

You will be part of a unique company in an exciting moment, when we are growing and becoming a very consolidated multinational in the FMCG Food industry, with many strong brands.

Requirements:

Technical Competencies:



Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or Business Administration.
Must have a minimum of five (5) years of working experience in the same or similar role.
Demonstrate experience with different SAP FICO modules (Asset, GL, Account payable, Account receivable, Treasury, Banking, Controlling).
Working knowledge of other SAP modules i.e., BPC, SAC, Employee Central would be an advantage.
Extensive Project Management.
Must have a deep knowledge in both, Finance business process and functional IT Finance Management tools.


Behavourial Competencies:



Highly organized with ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced
Excellent analytical, problem solving, and time-management
Proactive person with ability to build relationships and work effectively independently and within a
Good communication skills with different stakeholders with different backgrounds (Business users and IT).
Being able to work closely with team members across all business units and with the management team to ensure coordination of all efforts and real-time communication with all stakeholders.
Solution oriented mentality with high affinity for new technologies and automation.
Must be able to speak both English and French.
Knowledge in process and cloud.
Willingness to travel mandatory.