SAP Financial Reporting and Taxation Business Process Expert

Summary   Corteva Agriscience is looking for an SAP Business Process Expert (BPE) to be part of the Digital & Platforms ERP Finance team.  The BPE will be responsible for designing, configuring, testing, and maintaining the S/4HANA and other connected SAP/non-SAP Finance applications during the entire applications’ lifecycle.  The role includes strong knowledge of Finance business processes globally with focus on General Ledger (GL), Central Finance (cFIN), Legal Reporting (including BPC – Business Planning & Consolidation), and Global & regional Tax applications, and their integration with other RTR, OTC & PTP processes , supporting SAP-centric global template solutions . The position is a key liaison between our ERP solutions, the line-of-business teams and the business product owner. This position defines and drives the tactical, day-to-day aspects of discovering, validating, documenting and mapping business processes to ERP solutions through modeling, simulating and analyzing current and future states.   The BPE must be able to bridge the IT and business domains and effectively communicate between each side. The BPE will thoroughly understand the Corteva AgriscienceTM Finance, Controlling and Taxation business strategy and processes to effectively participate in delivering the Finance Product Roadmap.   Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities     Primary IT point of contact across S/4HANA global implementation spanning multiple countries over North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific for SAP Finance.  Assist business in mapping local Financial, Controllership & Taxation processes to Global Template in S/4HANA. Assist in definition of functional and non-functional system requirements. Initial focus would be on processes covering GL, cFIN, Legal Reporting (including BPC), and Global & regional SAP & non-SAP Tax applications.   Work with other ERP and IT BPEs, Solution Engineers and with Architects across IES platforms, to help re-imagine the processes and best way to implement while meeting compliance, security, performance, cost, maintainability and interoperability requirements. Understand end-to-end process flow, while being responsible to implement the scope determined within ERP purview.   Translate process design to systems design on the SAP S/4HANA platform , including on RISE components and SAP Cloud enabled solutions like SAP DRC, BRF+, TDF, SAP Business Data Cloud, or Group Reporting .  Write system design documents, including detailed design, technical design, update requirements traceability, and test scenarios, cases.  Implementation of legal, statutory, regulatory or tax-driven reporting changes to ERP via projects or enhancements, including integration with bolt-on or 3rd-party applications similar to BlackLine , Hyperion, DRC and Tax calcluation and Reporting platforms from OneSource, Edicom, Sovos and the likes.   Definition and configuration of system functionality required to meet system design.   Ability to configure and setup GL, and cFIN functionality, with experience in resolving AIF or SLT errors.  Ability to configure Tax calculation processes including Tax Procedures, Tax types (VAT, Withholding, Sales and Use), Tax codes, Condition Types, Access Sequences, and integration within Pricing procedures.  Ability to configure and setup SAP DRC processes for Tax calculation and reporting.  Ability to design and configure BPC reporting, dimensions, characteristics, key figures; Design and configure upstream and downstream integration with SAP & non-SAP Business Warehouse and Data Lake solutions, or front-end reporting solutions like PowerBI or Alteryx.  Perform functional and non-functional testing of reporting solutions in meeting requirements, including unit-testing, SIT, UAT, regression testing, and performance testing.  Identify & define process and systems’ dependencies while implementing new SAP functionality in the context of ongoing enterprise