We 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:
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)