Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst - PowerPlan

Tekwissen
US - California - Oakland
November 7, 2024

Overview:

Tekwissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. This Client is a holding company that primarily operates through Gas and Electric Company subsidiary. The subsidiary provides natural gas and electric service to residential and business clients. It also offers building and construction programs, energy efficiency financing, electric vehicle charge networks, wireless solutions, battery storage systems, etc. This Client is an AA/EEO employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce.

Job Title: Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst - PowerPlan Location: Oakland, CA 94612 Duration: Full-Time Job Type: Full-Time Work Type: Hybrid

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

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 risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

Functional Analysis:

Automate/optimize 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 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

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Read the full job description and apply online on the recuiter's web-site

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