Solution Manager (CO/JVA)
BP
- Kuala Lumpur
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be the authority on template solutions within the functional area and participate in design authorities.
- For approved demand, understand business requirements and complex business processes and scenarios and translate / break these down into a simplified set of requirements for which solutions can be investigated.
- Design global standard solutions to meet business needs.
- Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Prepare, review and/or approve functional specifications for solution design.
- Lead the preparation, structure, and delivery of presentation materials for template familiarisation, template fit-gap, solution design, user training and team knowledge sharing.
- Lead template fit gap and user training sessions.
- Provide expertise and constructive feedback to peer’s design work.
- Identify, analyse, and delineate problems.
- Investigate and resolve solution incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
- Provide expertise for designs that cross functional areas in order to achieve end to end solutions that meet our customers' needs.
- Advise others on integration considerations for interfaces coming from external systems.
- Review and signoff cross-system cutover plans and integration testing scenarios.
- For new designs or changes to design, provide testing scenarios to ensure the solution is robust.
- Understand, adopt, and embrace agile principles and agile ways of working.
- Where agreed, act as Solution Integration Lead for specific projects, providing support to the project teams and their interaction and solution needs with the rest of the solutions team.
- Work with individuals to set performance goals in focus@bp and regularly check-in on goal progress.
- Schedule regular 1:1 catch-ups with team members and provide support and coaching when needed.
- Discuss career aspirations with team members and ensure everyone has a development plan with focus areas identified, including training needs and stretch assignments.
- • Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background.
- Accountancy qualification or working towards one (e.g. CIMA, CPA, ACA, ACCA)
- Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex processes and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
- Passion and experience in capturing business requirements and improving processes and systems.
- General understanding of systems deployment activities.
- Ability to work and collaborate within a virtual global team environment.
- Ability to prioritise effectively for yourself and the team
- 5+ years of experience of system design
- Ability to learn and be the authority on template solutions.
- Ability to formulate and solve problems.
- Ability to build strong relationships with business stakeholders, technical teams and delivery teams.
- Deep knowledge and significant experience with SAP CO and the design of associated processes and functionality for Allocations, Cost Management, Time Writing and Recharges
- Good knowledge of SAP Resource Relating Billing (RRB)
- Knowledge and experience of Joint Venture Accounting from a business and a system perspective along with an understanding of integration points with other modules.
- Significant experience with SAP and BW including a general working knowledge of transactional processes in an SAP environment.
- 12+ years of relevant work experience with systems and process design.
- Experience working in a multi-national organisation.
- Experience of Agile ways of working