Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst

Job Title: Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst
Position Type: Direct Placement
Salary Range: $140k - 238k/Year
Work Type: Hybrid, 3 days a week onsite since all project team is here in person Tuesday to Thursday.
Location: Oakland, CA

Department Overview
Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments that collaborate effectively to deliver high-quality technology solutions.
The SAP Electric Ops Work Management Delivery organization provides SAP IT services to the Electric line of business.
The organization is responsible for strategic technology planning, roadmap development, solution design, solution delivery, and solution support.

Position Summary
The role of IT SAP Functional Analyst PowerPlan is to configure, implement, maintain, and upgrade PowerPlan all modules.
The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents, and performs PowerPlan system configuration and localization to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations.
This role is viewed as an integral strategic partner and business liaison in technology decisions and provides ongoing PowerPlan system support. This includes analyzing business requirements and developing integrated IT and complex business solutions.

Responsibilities
Business Support and Consulting:
Define standard processes in PowerPlan and drive adaptation in Finance and Tax areas.
Analyze end-to-end complex business processes across all modules within PowerPlan.
Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new PowerPlan capabilities.
Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross-organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.
Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand the risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation costs and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

Functional Analysis:
Automate/optimize the PowerPlan system
Map business requirements to SAP S4 system capabilities and configure to meet requirements
Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution
Perform PowerPlan configuration and do quality review and testing activities

Qualifications
Minimum:
10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology
8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in the PowerPlan system

Desired:
Familiarity with CR, PM, Asset/ARO, Depr modules and their data flow
Project creation, estimating, approval
Collecting and classifying charges (derivations and true-up)
In-service and completion of work orders
PowerTax and Tax Repairs
Creating checks and balances to prevent data issues in automated processes
Lease Accounting Module (if the client uses PowerPlan)
Month-End Close Processes
PowerPlan Integration Tools
SDLC and Integration Best Practices/ETL processes

Additional Desired:
SAP
Familiarity with SAP tables and structure
SAP GUI experience and documenting integrations
Hana Experience - SAP settlement process and integration impacts with PowerPlan/capital projects
S4HANA ERP Implementation and Upgrades
Large ERP projects, integrations with forecasting and FP&A systems
Dashboarding tools for metric tracking

Functional Skills
Accounting Concepts in Asset Management/Depreciation
Mass property accounting
Group depreciation - Various asset retirement methods
ARO accounting
Book vs. tax depreciation
GAAP vs. FERC Accounting Concepts
FERC system of accounts and new accounts for renewables and Software/hardware/communications equipment effective 01/2025
AFUDC/CPI/capitalized interest
Managing differing capitalization/recovery schedules for GAAP vs. FERC - Rate cases depreciation studies, and supporting documentation for assets in GRC - Clauses and tracking recovery costs separately from normal rate base assets
Mergers and Acquisitions/Divestitures

Non-Technical Skills
Interacting with both technical and non-technical team members to resolve issues
Communicating success/failure stories to management teams

About The Company:
Leading natural gas and electric energy company serving millions of customers across the United States. Offers reliable energy delivery and a positive work environment. Join our team and make a difference in your community.

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