Architect - SAP S4 Migration - Asset & PS Specialist

Overview

The SAP S4 Migration is a comprehensive, multi-year program spanning over four years, aimed at modernizing the current SAP PIRT landscape. This initiative covers various regions including MENA, LATAM, PGCS, APAC, and Europe. The goal of this program is to prepare the SAP system for the future, aligning it with PepsiCo's digital transformation journey. The project involves planning, executing, and overseeing the successful migration of data and business processes from existing SAP ECC systems to S/4HANA. This will include designing remediation of deprecated functionalities, designing new functionalities for obsolete functionalities, executing data migration objects, and ensuring data quality and integrity throughout the process. This will also be working in close collaboration with technical and business stakeholders to align goals and expectations. The project aims to replace legacy systems by implementing the SAP S/4 HANA business suite. This suite will cover various functions including Record to Report (RTR), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Order to Cash (OTC), Purchase to Pay (PTP), Make to Deploy (MTD), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Warehouse Management (WM) and Trade Promotional Management (TPM).

Responsibilities

• Ensure Seamless Migration: Ensure that SAP ECC processes are remediated and migrated to SAP S/4 RTR out any design gaps focussing on G/L, Banking, Assets, Project Systems etc.

• Design and Build: Create design documentation where existing functionalities have become obsolete. Remediate object which are identified by for remediation.

• System Readiness: Prepare the current SAP system for migration by applying necessary updates and configurations, such as SAP notes and pre-migration checks.

• Data Migration: Oversee the technical migration of data from legacy systems to the SAP S/4HANA environment. Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance throughout the migration process by conducting data validation and reconciliation

• Data Validation: ensuring data integrity and minimal disruption to business operations.

• Comprehensive Testing: Conduct thorough testing to validate the functionality and performance of the new system, ensuring it meets all business requirements and standards.

• Change Management: Support the Change management in identifies processes and/or transactions which will get impacted.

• Training and Support: Provide training and support to super users for the changes to ensure a smooth transition and effective use of the new system.

• Issue Resolution: Identify and resolve data migration issues promptly, collaborating with data migration and tech team as needed. Track issues throughout the migration life cycle and ensure issue resolution in timely manner for the overall project success

• Promote Collaboration: Foster an environment where communication, teamwork, and innovation are encouraged.

• Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to the internal IT operating model, including technology standards, project life cycle methodology, release management, change management, and other related processes and procedures, SLAs, and controls compliance. Accountable for ensuring proper governance is followed for all RTR areas

• Project Communication: Own project status and communication for all related work in the project. Accountable for ensuring project status reporting is done weekly and senior executive-level communications are timely and accurate.

• Reuse Asset: Create reuse asset which can be leveraged during migration to optimize the efforts for sectors planned later in the migration journey.

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor’s degree is required. Computer Science or Information Systems is preferred.

• 9 - 13 years of experience configuring, deploying and managing SAP ERP with a focus on SAP RTR – General Ledger, Banking, Assets, Project System

• Experienced in 2-3 Implementation Project in SAP S4 for RTR

• Process knowledge and SAP solution mapping experience for General Ledger & Banking, Assets, Interfaces to applications like Blackline, Celonis, HFM, Skelta etc.

• Exposure to SAP Profitability Analysis and Product Costing preferred

• Integration across other functional areas, i.e., Procure to pay, Make to Deploy & Order to Cash

• Prior experience on S4 Migration or experience data validation strategy would be preferred.

• Prior experience in working on solutions for managing ACDOCA growth preferred

• Deep understanding of project test phases and testing automation tools.

• Fully aware of the SAP security design implications through global roles.

• Familiar to the GRC best practices in large corporations as PepsiCo

• Dispatches standard SAP quality issues with OSS (Online SAP Services) and follows up the required break fixes

• Demonstrated Leadership skills, including planning, organization, prioritization, collaboration

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization

• Ability to work flexible hours based on varying business requirements

• Solves complex problems within their work team

• Strong influencing, facilitating, and consulting skills in working with stakeholders at all levels in the organization and across departments

• Ability to clear obstacles for teams to deliver

• Experience with LATAM, Europe, MENA and APAC preferred