• Job Description

  Req#: REF30920J

  Company Description

  Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued TEAM Members will shine through in everything we do.

  Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms TEAM. We offer the experience of a large organization, however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage TEAM Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

  Job Description

  Pay Range $50.80 to $59.80 per hour

  To provide support for the Foster Farms’ Finance and Accounting Teams and the SAP FICO and other systems (Assigned Systems ) used by these Teams. This includes design, specification development, configuration, customization, testing, documenting, training, delivery, reporting and support of software and hardware solutions relating to the master data, configuration, customization, reporting and transactions associated with these processes and applications, across all Foster Farms locations; including a high level of knowledge of related content for additional SAP software components installed at Foster Farms. Since Foster Farms is a manufacturing company, special emphasis on product costing knowledge and experience is a requirement of this position.

  Essential Functions

  • Will provide design and implementation support for the ongoing SAP FICO and other Finance and Accounting systems (Assigned Systems) projects. This may include requirement collection, solution design and concept writing as well as performing extensive customizing activities of the Assigned Systems and their interfaces to other SAP and non-SAP systems.
  • Will provide primary end user support for the Assigned Systems . This includes:
    • Troubleshooting, diagnosis, and resolution of end user problems.
    • Raising, managing, and escalating support tickets with 3rd party software application support parties
  • Contribute to ongoing system improvement efforts of Assigned Systems to include:
    • Collecting requirements from business users, researching available solutions, developing and documenting conceptual design alternatives.
    • Communicate effective conceptual designs, writing technical specifications and coordinating development work with other senior analysts and/or programming staff, building and configuring prototypes and prototype documentation.
    • Communicate with and educate business users, conduct unit testing and coordinate integration and user acceptance testing.
  • Work with security team to ensure appropriate system authorization, migrating to production.
  • Prepare comprehensive and thorough design and training documentation, train subject matter experts, and provide post-implementation support efforts.
  • Will interact regularly with end users, engaging in troubleshooting and root cause analysis of production issues, and providing continuous improvements to all aspects of design and processes.
  • Providing technical guidance of and assistance to other Functional and Programmer Analysts.
  • Additional duties as assigned by the IT manager/director

  Qualifications

  Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Management Information System / Computer Information Systems or related field
  • Minimum of 5 - 7 years as an IT analyst including experience supporting Assigned Systems including: SAP FICO modules - Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Accounts Receivable, Banks, Treasury, Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Product Costing, BOMs and Routings/Recipes, COPA, Overhead Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Bank Master, etc.
  • Experience with FI/CO integration with other process modules, including Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP) in both a Repetitive and Process Manufacturing Environment, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Project Systems (PS), Quality Management (QM)
  • Excellent technical skills (e.g. SAP, MS Office suite, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Teams)
  • Familiarity with the ABAP programming language and various customizing techniques
  • Experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle including but not limited to developing business requirements, system design, developing test plans and use cases, training plans, preparing technical documentation, and project management principles and tools. This includes both the Waterfall and Agile Project Methodology.
  • Must be an effective teacher/mentor capable of educating other team members in Assigned Systems capabilities and best practices.
  • Experience learning and documenting complex business processes.
  • Must be capable of working to a structured work plan with aggressive milestones and have strong problem-solving skills, sound judgment, critical thinking, and decision-making ability.
  • Must be highly goal and results oriented.
  • Must be highly self-motivated and driven – must be capable and willing to learn complex systems with minimal supervision.
  • Must be able to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively with members of other IT and business teams, as with varying levels of management, both written and verbal.

  Additional Information

  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

  Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

  Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.

• About the company

  Foster Farms is a United States West Coast poultry company.

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