Business Analyst, SAP Invoicing and Revenue Accounting

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description:
Order to Cash Operations team as a Business Analyst, SAP – Revenue, where you'll be a critical stakeholder in our SAP Transformation program. You'll serve as the Revenue Recognition process subject matter expert (SME) throughout the SAP implementation lifecycle, playing a key part in supporting end-to-end revenue accounting, contract recognition, and deferred revenue process design, testing, and deployment. You'll translate business challenges into requirements and own the delivery of those requirements for the Revenue function.
This role is essential to the success of our SAP transformation efforts across Order to Cash and Finance.

• Attend design workshops and help disposition requirements
• Help break larger work items into smaller tasks based on functionality
• Support the Functional Lead and Subprocess Lead in identifying fit to standard
• Support business process design alignment
• Contribute to the definition of ready-for-work items to be slotted into a build
• Participate in estimating work items
• Provide input for acceptance criteria
• Define automated test scripts

• Translate requirements into the "How” by helping to create functional/technical designs
• Build working software (configuration)
• Decompose requirements into actionable tasks and estimate associated effort
• Report daily status and impediments
• Maintain Design-Build plan and accuracy in remaining work
• Participate in demos to show working software to the Subprocess Owner
• Perform functional testing
• Integrate (Test)
• Participate in integration testing and verify delivered requirements against build goals
• Drive testing defects to closure
• Support data migration efforts and provide insights on master data related to performance obligations, deferred revenue, and contract balances
• Assist in training and change management initiatives to ensure business readiness

• Execute select readiness and deployment tasks for the process team
• Resolve issues during Go-Live support
• Transition the solution to the support team

• Execute monthly revenue close activities, including revenue allocation calculations, journal entry preparation, reconciliations, control execution, and preparation and review of auditable workpapers.
• Ensure revenue recognition in financial statements is compliant with US GAAP (ASC 606).
• Interpret revenue arrangements, assess and summarize accounting implications, and document conclusions in accordance with ASC 606.
• Support quarterly reporting requirements, including preparation of materials for CAO/CFO quarterly readouts.
• Execute SOX controls related to revenue recognition, including documentation and evidence retention, and partner with Internal and External Audit to support walkthroughs, testing, and control enhancements.
• Monitor daily revenue transactions and review non-standard requests, including assessment of payment terms, return rights, and other contractual provisions.
• Review customer contract terms, provide proactive accounting guidance, and approve final contract documents as needed.
• Support process, policy, and system enhancements to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Assist in developing and maintaining process documentation for revenue close procedures.
• Contribute to ad hoc, company or department level projects and cross-functional initiatives as required.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• 5+ years of domain expertise in Revenue Recognition; a strong understanding of ASC 606, performance obligations, and deferred revenue
• Have supported at least 2 full-cycle SAP implementations (preferably S/4HANA)
• Hands-on working experience in SAP, specifically in Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) and FI modules
• A collaborative approach to cross-functional teamwork
• Strong problem-solving skills: able to logically break a problem into smaller, manageable parts to solve
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to provide technical leadership across stakeholder teams
• Ability to identify and resolve impediments, issues, and risks to drive timely resolution