SAP Fico Consultant Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

**Location** Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico**Job ID** R- **Date posted** 02/06/2025**SAP FICO Consultant****About the AstraZeneca**AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and teamwork. Here, employees are empowered to express different perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.**About the team**We live to serve our colleagues by providing support to anyone in AstraZeneca that is willing to innovate and explore new solutions.We partner with our IT colleagues in the Business Facing Groups (BTGs) and across all of AZ IT to deliver to their needs. We have teams in our Global Technology Centres in Chennai and Guadalajara, plus across Europe and America which provide a close working partnership where needed.**About The role****The SAP FICO Consultant**will be accountable for**:- Resolving any SAP issues reported by the business users and delivering all enhancements as required by business users.- Completing all tasks assigned by team lead and project manager, reviewing solutions designed by the team members and proposing improvements.- You will also work proactively with business users for identifying and resolving recurring issues.**Requirements**:**Essential**- In-depth functional understanding for their respective work stream and expert knowledge in configuration and maintenance of SAP systems.- Good understanding of business processes in the life sciences / pharmaceutical domain.- At least 2 years of proven experience as functional FICO consultant participating in incident and change management.- Experience performing SAP FI configuration is a must.- Experience on core FI processes (General Ledger, AR, Taxes, Banks) and particularly AP including invoice verification processes and host to host bank transactions (Payments, Electronic Bank statement)- Good understanding of CO core modules mainly on integration within FI in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders.- Good understanding on integration with other modules for Commercial and Logistics scenarios.- Exposure is essential to highly customized SAP environments and working on interfaces with Non SAP systems.- Very good understanding of integration of SAP modules in End to end business processes- Ability to work in large and complementary teams.- Exposure to Run SAP (Solution Manager) methodologies.- Good understanding of GXP and SOX requirements. Should have working experience in a validated environment.- Should be aware of release governance processes and have experience in working on any incident management tool.- Experience of various Estimation Techniques needed- Good communication and social skills.- Well versed in English and Spanish. Good spoken and written skills.- Proactive approach to problem solving.- Experience working in a globally distributed team**Desirable**- Controlling submodules as Product Costing / Profitability Analysis- Hands on experience in other functional SAP core modules (FI, MM, PP)- Participation in full SAP implementations- Sap certifications- Abap (debugging)- Specific country localizations (ie, Electronic Invoicing, Taxbra)Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification required; additional Agile certifications (e.g., PMI-ACP, SAFe) preferred.**Strong English communication skills required.****Positions are open to Mexican Citizens and official residents of Mexico.****Location: Guadalajara**(hybrid - Expectation of working in the office 3 days a week)When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility.**Why AstraZeneca?**At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.Interested? Come and join our journey.**So, what’s next**Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.**Where can