Shell Hiring for Business Analyst at Bangalore, India Full Time

, India

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 28, 2022

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

IT Engineering drives business value through providing world class technical, functional and consulting expertise to deliver the right skills, at the right time, in the right place. In IT Engineering you will have opportunities to work on IT projects, programmes and products across the value chain of Shell. Our technical career paths will support your personal development through learning and certifications. We are the home of technical talent where you can grow your career, develop leading edge skills and deepen your business knowledge.

Comprising of eight capability centres, we bring together natural sets of skills at scale, providing our customers with size and depth in terms of business and platform knowledge. The capability centres promote continuous improvement of functional excellence, giving you the methods, standards, best practices, platforms, tools and external insights to support and accelerate your capability development. Our communities of practice provide access to expertise and learning, where your skills and passion for innovation and excellence will thrive

The Senior Functional Analyst – SAP Finance will is responsible for identifying and documenting the business needs of their clients and stakeholders, including the SERP (Services Enterprise Resource Planning) SAP system which is a platform that serves the needs of Shell’s service providing businesses (e.g. Finance, Legal, Real Estate etc.). SERP is one of the big three SAP platforms in the Shell Group; it serves the needs of approximately 20,000 users; it interfaces with an indirect tax engine (Sabrix) for tax calculations and reporting and is part of a larger portfolio of applications, many of them small tax applications. The portfolio also includes two travel and expense applications: SAP’s Travel Management System Concur.

Responsibilities:

• This is a hands-on, role which involves work with a portfolio of SAP Finance & Tax applications gathering business requirements and delivering both large and small projects and enhancements in the Finance ERP portfolio.

• Work closely with IT Managers and the Business to ensure that new requirements are understood and captured

• Drive/participate in requirements gathering workshops

• Assess and model business processes, data flows, and technology to understand the current value and issues, and identify opportunities for improvement

• Translate business requirements into solutions and assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts

• Create clear documentation to communicate requirements and related information; keep updated to align with the solution over the project lifecycle

• Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs and requirements, through testing and scope changes, to final solution

• Interact with software engineers, designers and developers to understand software limitations, deliver elements of system and database design, and ensure that business requirements and use cases are fully accommodated

• Create acceptance criteria for test scenarios and participate in the appropriate test cycles in order to validate that solutions meet business needs

• Define and maintain standards, methodologies, tools and knowledge repositories along with contributing to functional excellence in terms of standards, methods and tools.

• Ensure lessons learned from market service implementations are identified, applied and acted upon.

• Accountable for driving continuous improvement, life-cycle/portfolio management, and stable operations in all IT applications that underpin business-critical processes with end to end ownership of the portfolio capability.

Special Challenges:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, rapidly changing environment. Strong engagement skills, working with senior leaders on regular basis.

• Expertise in the integration of Finance with other modules like PTW (PS-TW, PS-HR) and GSR.

• Knowledge of latest ERP trends/developments/products or Certifications is a plus.

• Prior experience of Design Authority role is a plus.

Skills & Requirements

• Minimum of 12 years of proven project experience in the Area of Finance & Controlling.

• Expertise in several of the following:

o General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cost Centre and Profit Centre Accounting, Cross company configuration & Interfaces.

• Integration experience with other SAP modules (PS-TW, PS-HR) is highly beneficial.

• Good understanding of Inter-Group Billing among entities within Organization (Resource Related Billing functionality for services rendered, Invoice list).

• Drive simplification and cost reduction in the existing platforms.

• Very good understanding of financial processes, including period end closing.

• Good Understanding of SAP Best practices for simplified transition to S/4HANA.

• Understanding of IT project management and project delivery methodology, including agile

• Understanding of IT security and compliance

• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills

• Ability to prioritize and multi-task

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