What would be your main challenges ?

Due to an historic L’Oréal organization, there is today 2 main SAP Core solutions based on ECC6 or S/4 Hana: one for the “Affaires / Headquarters” and the other one for the “Factories”. 

Your main challenge will be to maintain the different solutions respecting the different levels of support and methodologies and the different IT and business stakeholders by solution.

 L’Oréal also launched a big transformation program to rationalize and redesign all the L’Oréal processes and landscape based on SAP S/4 for all L’Oréal entities worldwide. The run activities of this new Core, the Demands and the projects for lived entities are under our team accountability for the Finance scope.

You will join a complex organization and you will work on both run and project activities with a lot of challenges in an international context. Your stakeholders on business side will be the Finance & Legal direction of L’Oréal, the Controlling, Accounting and Treasury departments, and you will be also in contact to the local business in countries. Your stakeholders on IT side will be all the other teams that could be involved on integrated topics (Operations, Architecture, Developments, Data…).

In this role, this could be your next day-to-day:

Within the Beauty Tech organization, the SAP Finance and Controlling Business Analyst is part of the Transactional Finance Domain within the IT OPS&FIN department. We deliver solutions for the Accounting, Controlling, Tax and Legal business partners. 

Your role is to guaranty, design, specify, build, and maintain solutions aligned with Group processes & norms in an international context.

You will deliver projects, enhancements, and support solutions on different SAP Core solutions (ECC or S/4 Hana) and manage integration with satellite applications.

Main responsibility:

Participate to Group / local projects and demands providing your expertise on processes, SAP and the existing solutions (take the data custodian role in case of data projects).

Work with the Métier Group and local business on their requirements and validate the preferred solution considering the context and the constraints.

Ensure Group Core System solutions.

Ensure the L4 support respecting the ITSM principles.

Ensure the integration with other domains and teams.

Transfer the knowledge on within the team, to the AMS, to local IT teams on solutions implemented.

Develop and maintain an effective communication with all stakeholders.

Deliverables:

Write deliverable and lead workshops in coordination with business experts (Métier Group / Local Business / Project director)

Write SAP specifications (interfaces, enhancements, reports, forms, conversion) 

Write ECC or S/4 Hana customizing guide & Customize SAP

Test solution and assist User Acceptance Tests

Participate to integration issues solving & integration tests

Contribute to change management activities

❤ We love people that are curious, collaborative, eager to have an impact and who value innovation, autonomy, and team spirit.

💡 In this specific position, it will be important for you to have: 

7 years of experience minimum on SAP.

• Knowledge in Manufacturing controlling is a must have (CO-PC, material ledger)

• SAP FI (GL, AP, AR, AA, BL) and/or CO (CCA, PCA, OPA, PA, PC) on both ECC6 and S/4 Hana.

• Knowledge on the Integration with other modules

• Knowledge on Finance processes

• Capacity to understand and go deeper on technical aspects to solve issues (EDI, IDocs, files exchanges, API, forms…)

SOFT SKILLS

• English

• Leadership

• Team player

• Methodic & sharp

• Flexible and rigorous

• Good communication (right level of communication depending the interlocutor)

• Capacity of coordination

• Capacity for formalization and synthesis

• Capacity to define solutions based on a business requirements

• Capacity to challenge the business requirements