Senior Analyst, SAP FI

Job Title: Senior Analyst, SAP FI

Reporting To: Senior Manager, SAP Finance Applications

Location: Chicago, IL

Looking for a job that can turn into a lifelong career? At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees opportunities to grow. Whether you're starting fresh or bringing years of experience, we'll provide the tools and support you need to succeed!

Lactalis, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to nurturing the future by providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. We produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day. We offer an enviable range of dairy brands including Galbani, President, Kraft Natural Cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond, Parmalat, Siggi's, and Stonyfield Organic in addition to several brands imported from our affiliates in Europe.

We live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity-and we're building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, don't let that stop you from applying! We're eager to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how you can bring your EXPERTISE to help us make an impact.

From your PASSION to ours

Be a key member of the Technology team at Lactalis! In this position you will play a key role in providing overall technology support for the enterprise applications used by the Finance functions of the Lactalis US Businesses. You will need to have both strategic and tactical capabilities, excellence in business processes, and a deep understanding of SAP FI solutions as well as other enterprise applications.

The Senior SAP FI Analyst is responsible for identifying technology solutions that support achievement of relevant business objectives and working with the business to define the requirements for new system or process enhancements to existing and/or new applications.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Support the successful build and run activities, within the defined workstream, for a US SAP ERP solution across multiple business units
• Analyze and document business processes to align with global and local requirements
• Analyze and document functional and technical requirements for SAP system designs with input from business users
• Participate in workshops and presentations with users and management to facilitate solution development and continuous improvement
• Identify benefits, risks, and alternatives in proposed system design solutions and their impact on the integration with other systems and SAP modules
• Perform SAP configuration to satisfy a solution designed to meet requirements and business process parameters
• Support system testing processes (unit, integration, and regression) including test build, execution, and defect resolution
• Maintain project and solution documentation standards to ensure sufficient detail and clarity, collaborating with business partners to ensure that these are captured correctly with clear and complete understanding of process and technology implications
• Provide on-going business user support and issue resolution
• Provide support to rollout/implementation teams.
• Assist service providers and others to implement changes and resolve issues in processes/systems.
• Travel may be required for on-site support at Lactalis facilities

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business or other related academic discipline
• 5+ years experience in a large-scale, enterprise environment
• 5+ years experience in providing business analytics solutions, in an SAP environment utilizing a CoE support model
• Experience in the Food Industry and/or Consumer Products preferred
• Functional SAP knowledge in the following business processes, General Ledger accounting, Controlling, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Preference for experience in any of Banking, Fixed Assets, Tax, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis
• Experience in an SAP S/4 HANA environment, including Central Finance and new G/L with multiple ledgers is strongly preferred
• Experience with financial bolt-on solutions is preferred, e.g., Diapason, HFM, Vertex
• Experience with Trade Promotions based accrual and spend analysis is preferred
• Basic ABAP knowledge is a plus, e.g., debugging, user exits, function modules
• Knowledge of end-to-end IT software development lifecycle from idea conception through planning, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, support and transition into operations teams
• Experience in support ticket applications
• Experience in Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Strong analytical, time-management and facilitation skills
• Independent, self-motivated, self-managing, proactive and responsive with a bias for action and results
• High level of personal integrity consistent with the client's core values

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.