Business Finance Analyst

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BUSINESS FINANCE ANALYST </p>
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JOB SUMMARY:</p>
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Located in Uxbridge, but liaising with the Aberdeen, Senegal and Beijing offices, the role is responsible for ensuring a smooth implementation of SAP S4 HANA for Senegal.</p>
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This role will utilise strong understanding of SAP Finance processes and communication skills to work with multiple stakeholders at all levels, including third party system integrators to ensure a successful implementation.</p>
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JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:</p>
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Responsible for performing SAP HANA migration tasks for Senegal and acting as an interface between Senegal Project, UK SAP HANA team and the core project team in Beijing where configuration will be undertaken in the following areas:</p>
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Joint Venture Accounting - including Production Sharing Accounting</p>
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Project Systems - to manage Capex projects currently in Exploration phase</p>
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Asset Accounting - to facilitate appropriate accounting during the Exploration phase</p>
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Financial Accounting - support for XOF including daily FX rates</p>
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Accounts Payable - to enable processing of intercompany and third party FI invoices</p>
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Accounts Receivable</p>
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VAT &amp; Withholding Tax</p>
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SAP Workflow</p>
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Interfaces - including Budgeting system, Master Data Management, Treasury system, Consolidations.</p>
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BW reporting</p>
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OHADA Chart of Accounts &amp; Local Senegalese reporting will be handled outside of SAP by a third party.</p>
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Procurement &amp; Materials Management will be handled outside of SAP.</p>
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Responsibilities:</p>
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Define Senegal's requirements</p>
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Work with Global team on design.</p>
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Document Functional Specifications for solutions to be built &amp; configured by Global Team</p>
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Review and approve solution</p>
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Perform system validation and integration testing</p>
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Guide User Acceptance Testing (UAT) or perform UAT on behalf of Senegal</p>
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Consider &amp; perform data cleansing/transformation/migration activities </p>
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Define end-user authorization</p>
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Create / update material for training. Perform end-user training.</p>
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Perform cut-over tasks</p>
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Operate the system for Senegal after go-live</p>
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Other areas as directed by the Senegal GM or as guided by the SAP HANA Finance Team Lead</p>
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Data Conversion to SAP HANA will include </p>
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Existing JV and Cost Centre master data</p>
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All projects set-up in legacy SAP ECC system, to enable historic PSA and cost recovery reporting</p>
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Historic capital balances as at 31 Dec 2022 will be converted at WBS/network level.</p>
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Vendors / customers</p>
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Balance sheet balances including open items.</p>
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Effective Teamwork expectations include:</p>
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Support the Company's cultural beliefs.</p>
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Ensure adherence to all relevant controls.</p>
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Stepping up to organise and facilitate updates to Senegal, UK &amp; Beijing teams as-required.</p>
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Presenting and training others to share knowledge and expertise across the organisation.</p>
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Ad-hoc projects and other work assigned to the role.</p>
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QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING:</p>
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Certified Training and experience of multiple SAP Projects.</p>
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Training and experience of MS Office products including MS-Excel</p>
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French language skills are not mandatory but would be advantageous</p>
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KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:</p>
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Experience of SAP Finance and processes including implementing S4 HANA in the areas outlined above.</p>
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Experience of SAP implementations, testing, data migration, cutover</p>
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Able to demonstrate initiative and naturally inquisitive.</p>
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A quick learner with a structured approach to problem solving.</p>
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A strong attention quality and self-review.</p>
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Flexibility in their working style to adapt to changing environments and priorities.</p>
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Plan and Coordinate activities across teams to tight deadlines.</p>
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A highly effective communicator who will be able to adapt their style to different audiences at all levels in the organisation including being able to summarise, communicate and explain at a high level.</p>
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