Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst

Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst

Direct Hire

Hybrid, 3 days onsite

Salary range $132 - $226k/Year

 

Department Overview

Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments that collaborate effectively to deliver high-quality technology solutions.

The SAP Electric Operations Work Management Delivery organization provides SAP IT services to the Electric line of business.

The organization is responsible for strategic technology planning, roadmap development, solution design, solution delivery, and solution support.

 

 

Position Summary

The role of IT SAP Functional Analyst PowerPlan is to configure, implement, maintain, and upgrade PowerPlan all modules.

The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents, and performs PowerPlan system configuration and localization to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations. This role is viewed as an integral strategic partner and business liaison in technology decisions and provides ongoing PowerPlan system support. This includes analyzing business requirements and developing integrated IT and complex business solutions.

This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business needs.

The assigned work location will be within the client Service Territory.

This new teammate needs to be able to come to the client's Oakland headquarters 3 days a week since all the project team is here in person from Tuesday to Thursday.

 

Job Responsibilities

Business Support and Consulting:

Define standard processes in PowerPlan and drive adaptation in Finance and Tax areas.

Analyze end-to-end complex business processes across all modules within PowerPlan.

Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new PowerPlan capabilities.

Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross-organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.

Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand the risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation costs and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

 

Functional Analysis:

Automate/optimize the PowerPlan system

Map business requirements to SAP S4 system capabilities and configure to meet requirements

Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution

Perform PowerPlan configuration and do quality review and testing activities

 

Qualifications

Minimum:

10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology

8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in the PowerPlan system

 

Desired:

Familiarity with CR, PM, Asset/ARO, Depr modules and their data flow

Project creation, estimating, approval

Collecting and classifying charges (derivations and true-up)

In-service and completion of work orders

PowerTax and Tax Repairs

Creating checks and balances to prevent data issues in automated processes

Lease Accounting Module (if client uses PowerPlan)

Month-End Close Processes

PowerPlan Integration Tools

SDLC and Integration Best Practices/ETL processes

 

Additional Desired:

SAP

Familiarity with SAP tables and structure

SAP GUI experience and documenting integrations

Hana Experience

SAP settlement process and integration impacts with PowerPlan/capital projects

 

S4HANA ERP Implementation and Upgrades

Large ERP projects, integrations with forecasting and FP&A systems

Dashboarding tools for metric tracking

 

Functional Skills

Accounting Concepts in Asset Management/Depreciation

Mass property accounting

Group depreciation

Various asset retirement methods

ARO accounting

Book vs. tax depreciation

 

GAAP vs. FERC Accounting Concepts

FERC system of accounts and new accounts for renewables and Software/hardware/communications equipment effective 01/2025

AFUDC/CPI/capitalized interest

Managing differing capitalization/recovery schedules for GAAP vs. FERC

Rate cases depreciation studies, and supporting documentation for assets in GRC - Clauses and tracking recovery costs separately from normal rate base assets

Mergers and Acquisitions/Divestitures

 

Non-Technical Skills

Interacting with both technical and non-technical team members to resolve issues

Communicating success/failure stories to management teams

 

Benefits:

Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans

401k Retirement Fund

 

About The Company:

Our client, incorporated in 1905, is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy companies in the United States. Their primary business is the transmission and delivery of energy such as natural gas and electric service to approximately 16 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area. They serve residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers, as well as natural gas-fired electric generation facilities.

What’s it like on this company’s team? There’s a strong sense of family here — an open and welcoming environment that’s filled with smiling faces and plenty of opportunities. When you join this company, you’ll become part of a stable company with deep roots in the communities we serve. And you’ll Client an unwavering commitment to the work we do.

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