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IT SAP BASIS Administrator
Malvern, PennsylvaniaWe are currently looking for an IT SAP BASIS Administrator to join our client’s growing IT Finance Team. As an IT SAP BASIS Administrator, you will support the IT Manager, Financial Systems in the development, implementation, and administration of the organization's financial systems.
You will research requirements and liaise across the company to ensure that systems are modified to meet the most recent business requirements, processes, and reporting standards, as well as the needs of key business users and finance colleagues. Functional accountability includes supporting the finance business units from financial systems standpoint. You will establish best practices for financial systems use and ensure these practices are used throughout the organization.
Finance systems includes SAP ERP (S/4 HANA), Cloud based reporting systems, Consolidation tools, EDI platforms and Interfaces to banking and other third-party systems.
As an IT SAP BASIS Administrator, you will be responsible for:
You will research requirements and liaise across the company to ensure that systems are modified to meet the most recent business requirements, processes, and reporting standards, as well as the needs of key business users and finance colleagues. Functional accountability includes supporting the finance business units from financial systems standpoint. You will establish best practices for financial systems use and ensure these practices are used throughout the organization.
Finance systems includes SAP ERP (S/4 HANA), Cloud based reporting systems, Consolidation tools, EDI platforms and Interfaces to banking and other third-party systems.
As an IT SAP BASIS Administrator, you will be responsible for:
- Partner closely with SAP to ensure environment service requests are understandable and prioritized appropriately
- Administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning of all S4 HANA environments (Private Cloud Edition)
- Monitor the installation and perform upgrades for the various environments
- Coordinate teams on resolution of priority incidents
- Work with various Administrators to monitor and improve the performance of the instances
- Guide S4 environment planning based on program roadmap needs
- Work closely with project teams during build, test, and go-lives
- Be the focal point for all S4 related activities in the Change Review Board
- Follow change management practices, documentation, architecture and development methods for quality and adherence to software development lifecycle standards
- Provide all aspects of technical support for SAP Basis Administration in proactive and reactive modes, to ensure that SAP systems perform at optimized level to meet or exceed SLAs
- Analyze daily system health checks across all SAP landscapes and provide various proactive measures to reduce any Audit or security breaches including availability of SAP Applications
- Setup and ensure that all security or SOX guidelines and policies are followed for the S4 instances
- Participate in meetings to discuss process improvements and operational issues
- Manage SAP application and infrastructure outages
- Perform transports of code from environment to environment
- Perform 24X7 on-call applications support responsibilities as needed
- Ability to influence and drive activities across IT teams
- Collaborate with internal and vendor provided infrastructure teams (DBA, Storage, Backup, Linux)
- Work independently and lead teams (near shore/offshore)