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Job Summary

The Business Process Analyst will support SAP Finance & Controlling processes spanning General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Cost Accounting, Product Costing, Fixed Assets, and COPA. This position will lead Finance process improvement through improved System Usage, Enhancements, Data Analytics & Reporting. The individual in this role will work closely with Finance SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), IT partners, and cross-functional track leads to anticipate and troubleshoot issues, brainstorm solutions, prioritize, design, and test changes. This role requires a person that has a mindset of continuous process improvement to meet the needs of the North American Finance Team in their efforts to increase accuracy, functionality, efficiency, and profitability while reducing risk.

In addition to understanding processes within multiple areas of Finance, the Business Process Analyst must have a solid understanding of many cross-functional processes to be successful in this role. This knowledge allows the Business Process Analyst to better anticipate and prepare for gaps and proactively find solutions.

Responsibilities

Work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to:

• Anticipate potential gaps/risks/issues and troubleshoot solutions

• Analyze and document current and future system related business needs

• Ensure future business processes satisfy the requirement and intent

• Liaison cross-functionally with other business teams to ensure business processes operate at their optimum efficiency

• Identify and manage all data integrations to/from legacy applications

• Review and approve functional specs, design documents, and develop test scripts

• Plan for and complete all system testing within deadlines

• Coordinate user training where necessary with SME and users

Partner with IT and business process owners to:

• Provide user support and ensure smooth functioning of the SAP RTR business processes

• Monitor RTR ServiceNow queue and update users on tickets

• Prioritize projects and enhancements for the RTR track

• Engage from concept to implementation on all changes affecting finance & accounting

• Monitor billing errors and Transportation settlement errors, determine course of action, enter IT tickets as appropriate

Represent Finance as a member of business process project teams:

• Understand upcoming changes to business as they affect GL, financial processes, data, and financial reporting

Examples of recent and ongoing projects affecting Finance:

• Working with cross functional team for opening, closing, or moving warehouses and/or manufacturing lines

• Integrating financials of merged companies

• Keeping up with changing customer and vendor systemic requirements

• Adding or changing 3rd party business partners that have data sharing requirements

• Keeping up with changing compliance requirements that affect systems & finance

• Converting from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4 Hana

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance

• 5-7 years of Accounting or Finance Experience required, 7-10 preferred

• Clear understanding of complex business functions to include proper general ledger entries for Purchasing, Manufacturing, Inventory, Logistics, Transportation, Fixed Assets, Customer Billing, Vendor Payment, Inter-Company Transactions, Collections, Credit, Cash Application, Customer Programs, etc.

• Experience as a Finance process SME for SAP enhancements and implementations working closely with IT and cross functional teams

• Basic understanding of the end-to-end processes within SAP and how these things interact with the general ledger

• Basic understanding of many cross-functional processes

• Results driven finance team contributor in system integrations and improvements from concept to execution

• Experience with analyzing data and creating reports using various analytic tools

Specialized Skills:

• Advanced skills in Excel, SAP FI-CO SME, BW Hana

• Strong analytic/problem solving capability

• Ability to effectively work with and lead cross-functional teams on projects with aggressive deadlines

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About Us:

You know our brands. You love our brands. You just may not know they are ours.

If you have touched a PowerA® gaming controller, a Five Star® notebook, a Swingline® stapler, a Quartet® dry erase board, or a Kensington® computer mouse, you have touched part of ACCO Brands Corporation. With annual revenues of over $2 Billion, ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) designs, markets, manufactures and sells branded academic, consumer and business products globally. The power of our brands, our unmatched global customer reach, and our strategic market strengths put us in a position to achieve global leadership and growth. We're proud of our long history of industry leadership and innovation and are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers by providing unique, cutting-edge, branded products.

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At ACCO Brands, we are committed to providing an environment of fairness and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical and mental disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. ACCO Brands believes that a diverse and inclusive work environment is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

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