SAP Finance Specialist

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience in developing and implementing the SAP R/3 ERP system.
• Recognised financial qualifications to support the level of experience and knowledge of Finance.
• Experience analysing GPD (Grouping, Pegging and Distribution) issues within the aerospace and defence industry.
• Strong, demonstrable experience with SAP ERP/MRP, with emphasis on product cost management.
• Demonstrated functional expertise with SAP R/3 FI/CO/PS and integration experience with SAP PP/MM/SD modules.
• SAP experience in a manufacturing and supply chain environment.
• Understanding of IT systems disciplines, including requirements management, configuration management, change control, reliability analysis and quality management.
• Ability to lead business-centric requirements discussions, obtain stakeholder consensus and support technical design through deployment and into operations.
• Experience providing high-demand, mission-critical systems on a 24x7 basis.
• Knowledge of service management disciplines, engagement, design, delivery and maintenance lifecycles in a high-technology or IT services environment.
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills in complex support incidents.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with both business and technical personnel.
• Experience delivering high-demand business services within technology services environments in a complex matrix structure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation material.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within virtual teams and multi-party environments.
• SC clearance or the ability to become SC cleared.
• Experience with other key transactional and reporting systems and data warehousing.
• Experience working closely with Manufacturing and Supply Chain functions.
• An appreciation of ITIL functions and processes.
• Business leadership experience of teams and functions using complex ERP systems.
• Knowledge and experience of project and service delivery disciplines, including business analysis, requirements gathering, resource planning and project proposals.
• Full project lifecycle experience, user support and training experience.
• Preferably degree-level education in a software engineering discipline, although significant experience and a strong track record with tertiary qualifications is acceptable.

Responsibilities:

• Review transactions such as distribution, purchase orders and pegging, and work with the business team to resolve errors.
• Manage financial calendars and schedules in SAP.
• Provide training to users on issues with business processes.
• Work with key users to identify, scope and implement system changes to improve processes and respond to business change.
• Provide a single point of knowledge across Finance, Manufacturing, SCM and other functions on how data moves between them and manage the impact of changes across areas.
• Act as the Business Process Expert/Super User for SAP and SAP BW activities across both the business and IT.
• Act as first line of help for all business users.
• Review daily GPD Pegging error reports, investigate new errors and suggest corrective actions.
• Review daily GPD Distribution error reports, investigate new errors and suggest corrective actions.
• Review daily GPD ZCMR purchase order reports, analyse movements in error accounts and suggest corrective actions.
• Respond to GPD questions from the business, distinguishing between actual issues and lack of understanding.
• Answer questions on GPD cost movements, identifying where costs have moved and the reason for the movement.
• Provide training on GPD matters when requested or when a knowledge gap is identified.
• Act as the resident expert in the use of SAP and SAP BW applications.
• Define processes and procedures for how transactions should be used in the business.
• Work with IT Technical System Experts to prioritise defects and describe system changes needed for evolving business requirements.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert in Finance, SCM, Quality, Manufacturing and Commercial from an IT perspective, bridging business and IT.
• Plan work with the Head of ERP Services, ensuring operational integrity and compliance.
• Meet IS assurance, governance and policy requirements, including information security, change management, asset management and software licensing.
• Ensure secure and stable IT platforms through effective maintenance and adherence to security, accreditation and audit requirements.
• Lead troubleshooting of business-related service issues.
• Support the implementation and measurement of key service level agreements (SLAs).
• Support maintenance of service quality levels across complex customer service events.
• Manage incidents, problems and changes efficiently and effectively following agreed and documented processes.
• Support the release of updates into service in line with technology roadmaps and demand management.
• Maintain associated documentation, support procedures and support rota/cover arrangements as necessary.

Technologies:

• ERP
• Support
• ITIL
• Matrix
• SAP
• SAP PP
• Security

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We are RTX, the worlds largest aerospace and defense company, with 185,000 people united by purpose and inspired to solve some of the worlds most complex problems. Through our market-leading businesses, world-class operations and investment in research and development, we develop capabilities that help connect and protect the world. Raytheon brings more than 100 years of engineering expertise to support the needs of todays mission and help stay ahead of tomorrows threats. This SAP Finance Specialist role is based in Harlow (Essex) or Glenrothes (Scotland) and supports our Finance and Manufacturing functions, helping ensure SAP issues are resolved, monthly processing is completed correctly, and key projects are delivered and supported in the UK business.

last updated 38 week of 2026