SAP Solution Architect - Alliance One International, Inc. - Farmville, NC

ABOUT US

Alliance One International, Inc. is a leading global independent leaf tobacco merchant serving the world’s largest cigarette manufacturers. The company was formed on May 13, 2005, as a result of the merger of DIMON Incorporated and Standard Commercial Corporation, both world leaders in tobacco processing. The creation of Alliance One brings together 200 years of combined experience and expertise, establishing a formidable competitor with a clear focus on its customers, as well as a vision for the future.

Alliance One selects, purchases, processes, packs, stores, and ships leaf tobacco grown in approximately 45 countries, serving manufacturers of cigarettes and other consumer tobacco products in approximately 90 countries worldwide. In certain developing markets, we also provide agronomy expertise and financing for the growing of leaf tobacco. Alliance One neither manufactures nor sells cigarettes or other consumer tobacco products. We have operations in major tobacco growing regions in the world, including the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Malawi, Tanzania, Turkey, Germany, Macedonia, Bulgaria, India, Indonesia and Thailand. Our shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol AOI.

Alliance One is proud to maintain the traditions of excellence that began generations ago, striving to find new opportunities and solutions within the industry, for our customers, suppliers and employees.

At AOI we firmly believe that our employees are our most valuable asset. AOI offers a variety of career opportunities with competitive compensation and excellent benefits. Some highlights of our full benefits package include: paid time off, paid holidays, retirement savings plan, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, recognition programs, tuition assistance and employee assistance programs.

Alliance One’s global headquarters is located in Morrisville, North Carolina. www.aointl.com

Job Purpose:

The Solution Architect will be part of a Global SAP Project working with all business units. The candidate must have an understanding of the business processes related to SAP ECC 6.0 – Finance and Controlling. The individual will offer their knowledge and expertise regarding the SAP system to the team to ensure best business practices are defined in meeting the business requirements. This position will be member of the Information Services Department and will assist the team with analysis, design, evaluation, configuration, testing, and implementation of the system primarily in the FI/CO, Asset Management & Treasury functional areas, with integration of MM and SD functional areas.

Job Content and Duties:

• Participate in and conduct Business Design sessions ensuring global business needs are incorporated into sessions


• Process re-engineering exercises to conform to business best practices


• Prepare business design documentation of processes, workflows and procedures


• Resolve business issues resulting from designs session


• Prepare functional specifications for development objects


• Prepare software configuration recommendations/requirements for assigned business processes


• Ensure multi-country requirements are properly defined to support localization and statutory requirements.


• Communicate regularly with Solution Manager and Project Management to ensure configuration is designed to meet the requirements and scope of the project


• Gain understanding of environment infrastructure and opportunities to ensure designs and deliverables are within economical reach


• Participate in system integrated testing to ensure software requirements have been met


• Data cleansing and validation efforts for data migrations


• Assist with preparation of user training materials


• Ensure that Company standards and methodologies are adhered to


• Provide end-user support during go-live


• Assist with Production Support issues and provide secondary support as needed


• Provide end user support for assigned applications


• Timely status reporting to IS management


• Fill in for Solution Manager as needed

Job Competencies:

• Superior documentation, facilitation, and relationship building skills


• Experience with process mapping and business process requirements gathering


• A proven consulting/functional professional, with at least two full lifecycle SAP implementations


• Process modeling in a fast-paced environment


• Comfortable working in a self-directed environment


• Must possess strong leadership qualities


• Must possess extensive working knowledge of enterprise architecture best practices


• MS Office applications: Visio, PowerPoint, Project, Excel, and Word


• Handle work of a confidential nature


• Good verbal and written communication skills


• Must be able to present yourself well and comfortably in front of customers


• Ability to work well with others


• Work with teams of varying sizes


• Ability to travel outside of home base country

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $85,000.00 /year

Required experience:

• Business or Computer related field: 4 years


• SAP Configuration Experience in FI/CO, Asset Management: 6 years


• Treasury & Functional Areas w/ integration of MM & SD functional areas: 6 years


• Data Load experience using SAP’s LSMW and SAP’s Solution Mgr. is preferred: 1 year


• SAP Query experience is preferred: 1 year

Required education: