Hybrid IT Specialist – Enterprise Applications, Finance Process & Solutions

at Saputo Inc.

• Job title: IT Specialist – Enterprise Applications, Finance Process & Solutions
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: CA$99,585 - CA$130,705 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Saint Laurent, Canada

About the role

• IT Specialist focusing on delivering SAP Finance solutions for a global dairy processor. Collaborating with finance teams to enhance business value through IT enablement.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with finance business users and interpret business requirements into solutions with a focus on SAP technologies.
• Assist with the end-to-end design of a scalable architecture that supports efficient creation of solutions.
• Prepare and facilitate design workshops with documented outcomes (requirements, design, data models).
• Contribute to the solution definition, work effort estimates and planning when building new or enhanced solutions on the SAP platform.
• Work in direct interaction with business SMEs and other IT teams (e.g., Infra, Dev, BI, Security) to design and implement sustainable solutions.
• Write and review functional specifications in accordance with standards, governance and best practices.
• Configure SAP Finance modules to meet business requirements.
• Develop test scripts, execute tests and document results to confirm functionality.
• Coordinate the delivery of IT change requests across the system landscape in collaboration with the Release Management team.
• Support training material preparation and training of key-users.
• Support data conversion and data maintenance activities.
• Provide end user support to stabilize new changes deployed.
• Drive successful adoption of proposed solutions.
• Provide level 3 end user support to accounting function users globally.
• Own incident resolution and day to day sustainment of finance applications.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and leading practices with applications used by Finance line of business.
• Identify solution improvement opportunities and leverage leading practices to continually enhance business value and benefits from IT enablement.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering SAP Finance solutions
• Strong design and configuration experience in SAP Finance and integration to other modules
• Solid understanding of the product costing process and experience configuring SAP Product Costing
• Ability to operate in complex, fast-paced project environment with interdependencies spanning multiple work-streams, teams, business divisions, geographies, time zones, & language
• Ability to work independently ensuring alignment to our IT strategy
• Ability to coach and mentor other team members
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to provide updates to leadership; adept at building relationships with IT peers as well as business end users
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Business or another related field
• Bilingual - English and French
• Preferred: Solid experience with BI technologies such SAP BI, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft PowerBI
• Preferred: Fluent in Spanish
• Preferred: Accounting designation
• Preferred: Experience in the consumer-packaged goods industry
• Preferred: Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum (e.g. PMP Certified- PMI).

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• A hybrid work environment with the possibility to work from home 2 days a week
• Advantageous corporate agreements
• Full range of group insurance benefits
• Group retirement pension plan with employer contribution
• Purchase option of company stocks
• Group RRSP
• Health and wellness program in the workplace
• Assistance program for employees and their families
• Saputo products at a discounted price