Finance Business Advisor

Title: SAP S/4HANA Finance Business Advisor (FP&A, SAC Planning & Reporting Expert)

Location: Newark NJ (Hybrid)

Role Overview

ComTec is looking for an SAP S/4HANA Finance Business Advisor / FP&A, SAC Planning & Reporting Expert to directly support the FP&A and Corporate Finance Lead on an active S/4HANA Bluefield (Selective Data Transition) program. You will serve as an expert-level technical and functional reviewer representing the business. You will analyze, provide rigorous feedback on, and support approval of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) system configurations, data models, stories, and WRICEFS functional specifications.

Your primary objective is to support the business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) by guiding critical design decisions required to introduce SAC. you will serve as an expert-level technical and regulatory reviewer representing the business to ensure that historical utility data migrated via the Bluefield protocol blends seamlessly with forward-looking predictive models, rate case planning, O&M/CapEx forecasting, and complex NJBPU/FERC regulatory reporting structures.

Key Responsibilities

SAC Planning & FP&A Governance

• Audit SAC Planning Architecture: Review and support approval of the configuration of SAC Planning dimensions, models, and advanced data actions to ensure accurate baseline budgeting and rolling forecasts across utility cost categories (O&M, CapEx, Headcount, and Fleet/Labor clearings).

• Validate Specialized Regulatory Forecasting: Audit and sign off on predictive planning logic for complex utility-specific financial models, including Rate Case scenario modeling, volume/revenue forecasting, and long-term Regulatory Deferral/Rider tracking.

• Verify Master Data Integration: Review the alignment and mapping of S/4HANA Universal Journal (ACDOCA) structures, profit centers, cost centers, and the FERC Chart of Accounts into SAC Planning models.

Reporting, Analytics & Historical Data Validation

• Ensure Historical Data Continuity: Review and validate how historical financial data migrated through the Bluefield Selective Data Transition is layered into SAC models. Guarantee that multi-year operational trend analyses can be executed without data gaps or structural misalignment.

• Support Approval of Dashboard & Story Designs: Review and provide structural feedback on SAC Stories, Analytics Designer applications, and management dashboards to ensure seamless variance analysis (Budget vs. Actual vs. Forecast) and executive-level clarity.

• Confirm Regulatory Output Accuracy: Validate that reporting schemas natively support data extraction requirements for the NJBPU Annual Report and federal FERC filings.

Design Review & WRICEFS Quality Assurance

• Support Approval of WRICEFS Specifications: Critically review, provide detailed feedback on, and sign off on functional specification documents for Planning Workflows, Data Analytics Interfaces, Advanced Data Actions, Enhancements, and Security/Reporting Role Provisioning (WRICEFS).

• Enforce Live Data Connectivity: Audit the system integrator's data architecture designs to ensure maximum use of standard SAP S/4HANA Live Data Connections, keeping data replication to a minimum and adhering to clean design principles.

Required Skills & Qualifications

FP&A & Corporate Finance Expertise (Core)

• Advanced Utility Planning Concepts: Deep operational understanding of regulated utility corporate finance, including capital expenditure recovery, cost-of-service ratemaking, and utility-specific budget cycles.

• Regulatory Reporting Awareness: Strong familiarity with formatting and financial granularity required for 18 CFR Part 101 and 18 CFR Part 201 compliance and New Jersey state regulatory filings.

• Experienced in developing an annual budgeting/planning tool to meet the various operating company’s annual planning needs from a GAAP, FERC and Management accounting, reporting and analytic needs

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Technical & Functional Literacy

• Specification Auditing: Proven experience acting as an owner's representative or advisor, holding system integrators accountable by identifying gaps, broken data linkages, or forecasting shortcuts in functional design documentation.

• SAC Planning & Reporting Mastery: Deep understanding of SAC technical mechanics, including Advanced Formulas, Data Actions, Data Import/Export methods, and security setup (data access control/row-level security).

• Bluefield Reconciliation Context: Familiarity with how historical financial data, legacy cost pools, and open projects are transitioned in an SAP Bluefield transformation, ensuring those historical trends remain legible within SAC.

Preferred Background & Professional Experience

• Minimum 10+ years in utility financial environments, with at least 3+ years specifically focused on SAP Analytics Cloud (Planning and Reporting) architecture, implementation, or advisory phases.