SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) are now CPKC. As the only truly North American railway, we are making big moves! Drawing on our strong foundations and heritage, CPKC moves essential goods across our 20,000-mile network to support economic growth throughout Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Be a part of history as we connect a continent and create exciting career opportunities across our new transnational network. Visit cpkcr.com to learn about the CPKC advantage, our purpose and culture.

 

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

Join our expanding in-house SAP Centre of Excellence (CoE). Our leadership team is dedicated to nurturing and developing internal talent. If you excel in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about SAP, come join us on our journey to SAP S/4HANA Rise Cloud. With a team of over 150 SAP professionals, we offer an outstanding chance to drive excellence and foster innovation.

As the Functional Analyst SAP Finance, you will improve and align our financial systems with strategic objectives. You'll take charge of optimizing our SAP solutions, covering the complete development lifecycle—from requirements gathering to implementation—ensuring the financial systems support our operations optimally.

 

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Develop and refine SAP FICO configuration and ABAP development, ensuring they are balanced, meet business needs, align with architectural standards, and optimize operations.
• Perform all tasks in the development cycle, including accurate business process definition, configuration and unit testing, user testing assistance and follow-up, coordination of transports to Production, training, post-live support, and fixes.
• Support the development of the test strategy and test plans. Ensure traceability of requirements back to business need as well as through to solution and testing. Validate the solution meets the business need and verify it conforms to specifications.
• Coordinate with diverse groups to conduct blueprinting, requirement analysis, impact assessment, product demonstration and training workshops. Encourage and support teamwork and information exchange across teams.
• Capture and document non-functional requirements that are important to the user community (i.e. usability, learnability, reliability). Liaise with architecture to ensure other non-functional requirements are considered (i.e. security, compatibility, maintainability).
• Participate in the On-Call support rotation for SAP production environment.

 

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Hold a post-secondary education (degree or diploma) in Accounting, Finance, MBA Finance, CA, or a related field.
• 5 years + related experience, including systems/applications development and support, business systems analysis, and systems project management, of which 3+ years’ experience is directly related to implementation and support of SAP Enterprise systems, specifically the FICO modules
• Knowledge of SAP product module/suite business processes, navigation mechanics, and configuration requirements and integration with other modules and SAP's Business Intelligence.
• Familiar with ABAP development.
• Knowledge and experience in SAP S/4HANA is an asset.

 

WHAT CPKC HAS TO OFFER:

• Flexible and competitive benefits package