SAP FICO Functional Lead

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom 2019 Full time

Are you an experienced SAP FICO professional looking for a new challenge?

We are currently seeking a SAP FICO Functional Lead to join our SAP Centre of Excellence, taking on a key role in leading all activities related to process mapping, designing, configuration, and requirements gathering for our Finance and Controlling business processes.

You will be responsible for providing configuration and development to a wide user community of the SAP FI/CO application across multiple sites, including ABAP development. Working closely with our SAP Functional Finance Manager, you will play a crucial role in the ongoing maintenance and enhancements for our Finance processes, while promoting and adhering to good practise.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading the implementation and stabilisation of SAP FI/CO solutions, as well as proposing and specifying configuration and technical solutions to meet business needs.
  • Facilitating and leading workshops to design and agree upon new SAP FI/CO solutions, while also translating business requirements into detailed SAP solution specifications.
  • Managing a team of internal and offshore SAP specialists.
  • Staying updated on new features and functionalities to enhance system performance and business outcomes and investigating business issues within SAP FI/CO as an advisor and super user.
  • Ensuring the availability and performance of SAP to agreed SLAs and focusing on continuous improvement of processes and end user experience in SAP FI/CO modules.
  • Supporting the delivery of training to SAP users across all UK sites and monitoring and reconciling inbound and outbound interfaces to SAP Finance.
  • Managing master data controls and maintaining application documentation within the SAP Centre of Excellence, as well as planning, installing, configuring, and testing SAP FI/CO application enhancements, upgrades, patches, and fixes.
  • Liaising with internal and external auditors as required, and proactively managing applications to improve monitoring and performance while reducing exceptions, faults, and failures.
  • Providing regression testing for development releases of other applications interfacing into SAP Finance and contributing to the delivery of business and team KPIs.
  • Identifying opportunities for process optimisation and enhanced efficiency in project management and SAP implementation, and leading post-implementation reviews to gather insights and lessons learned for future projects.

What you'll bring:

  • Exceptional comprehension of SAP finance processes and a robust knowledge of finance business procedures.
  • Extensive experience with ERP systems, particularly SAP FI/CO.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, with a deep understanding of Excel.
  • Proven hands-on experience in leading the design, development, and maintenance of SAP FI/CO solutions, with strong stakeholder management skills demonstrated through clear and efficient communication.

About Penguin:

We're the UK's largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you'll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

Our approach to hybrid working:

While our offices are places for you to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, having flexibility about where you work is just as important for doing your best work and for your wellbeing. So, we don't have a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to how we work across Penguin Random House UK.

For this role, there are regular meetings and activities that you will need to attend in person mainly at our offices in London or Colchester. Outside of these moments, you can choose to work remotely.

The exact balance of office to remote working can be discussed with your future manager during the recruitment process. What we can say now is that you won't need to go into the office five days a week, unless of course you want to.

Please apply with your CV and cover letter by Sunday 19th May. Interviews will likely be held virtually across a two-stage process.

What you can expect from us:

Salary: Circa £70,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition. Our benefits include:

  • Financial – income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance
  • Wellbeing – healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks
  • Lifestyle – enhanced parental leave, tech scheme

For our full benefits list please visit:

You can read about our recruitment process at

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: London

Postal Code: SW11 7BW

Job ID: 270309

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