Lead Functional Configuration Specialist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Montreal, QC

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global learning company with the mission of changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. Among the world's largest providers of pre-K -12 education solutions, HMH combines cutting-edge research, editorial excellence, and technological innovation to improve teaching and learning environments and solve complex literacy and education challenges. HMH's interactive, results-driven education solutions are utilized by 50 million students in over 150 countries, and its renowned and awarded novels, non-fiction, children's books and reference works are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers. We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it is safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMH’s digital transformation.

The Opportunity

HMH is seeking a talented individual who has experience with the SAP SD module and the passion to become a valued member of our team as an SAP SD Specialist. The Lead Configuration specialist will work closely with our Finance organization to support their processes and provide expertise and systemic enhancements. The SD configuration specialist will participate in SAP SD systems enhancements and support including configuration, testing, documentation, and user support for the SAP SD module.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Duties & responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Analyze and understand financial systems process and business requirements in the HMH environment.
• Configure the SAP system to facilitate all financial system processes and transaction flows.
• Support user community in implementation of the new systems and processes.
• Responsible for the business process development in the Order to Cash areas of HMH.
• Participate on project team for implementation of SAP modules within HMH business units
• Mentors more junior team members as directed by manager
• Interfaces with site IT personnel to accomplish project goals
• Responsible for assigned projects, architecture and technical content and on time delivery of solutions

Skills & Requirements:

• A bachelors or masters level degree in Information Systems or Business Administration
• Minimum 10 years of experience in designing, configuring, testing and implementing SAP solutions in a multi-currency environment across various geographies.
• Experience in at least three full lifecycle implementations in SAP SD
• Capability to design, develop and deliver sustainable/scalable, global solutions that can be re-used and/or rolled out to other geographies.
• Strong configuration capabilities in Billing and Invoicing, Order Mgmt and Fulfillment, Pricing, etc
• Capability to work independently with minimum guidance and well versed with best practices in SAP.
• Should be able to guide best practice adoption and author quality deliverables
• Strong cross modular integration knowledge with FI, MM, PP, and Saleforce
• Experience utilizing an Agile development approach
• Demonstrated ability to work with various level of management and to be a team player
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Physical Requirements:

• Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing)
• The person in this position needs to move about inside office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer
• Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings

Spécialiste principal de la configuration fonctionnelle

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt est une entreprise mondiale d'apprentissage dont la mission est de changer la vie des gens en encourageant des apprenants passionnés et curieux. Parmi les plus grands fournisseurs mondiaux de solutions d'éducation pré-K-12, HMH combine recherche de pointe, excellence éditoriale et innovation technologique pour améliorer les environnements d'enseignement et d'apprentissage et résoudre les défis complexes d'alphabétisation et d'éducation. Nos solutions éducatives interactives et axées sur les résultats sont utilisées par 50 millions d'étudiants dans plus de 150 pays, et nos romans, non-fiction, livres pour enfants et ouvrages de référence renommés et primés sont appréciés par les lecteurs du monde entier.

L'organisation des technologies de l'information se transforme pour réaliser notre mission: devenir un leader de la transformation numérique de HMH et, en tant que partenaire stratégique, innover et fournir les solutions les plus avantageuses et les plus compétitives dans toutes les fonctions de l'entreprise et de l'entreprise. Notre ambition est d'être un leader numérique grâce à l'innovation et de développer et fournir des technologies de pointe telles que l'automatisation des processus robotiques et l'intelligence artificielle pour résoudre certains des défis opérationnels les plus importants de HMH. Nos professionnels auront des compétences commerciales pertinentes pour connecter nos partenaires HMH aux technologies qui propulsent les entreprises à offrir la plus haute valeur pour HMH et nos clients. Nous construisons une équipe de professionnels de l'informatique avec un appétit insatiable pour apprendre, une concentration constante sur le service client, une curiosité technologique envers les possibilités futures et une créativité pour résoudre les défis commerciaux avec des technologies de pointe. Notre équipe trouvera des moyens de travailler ensemble, de créer un sentiment de communauté où il est sécuritaire de prendre des risques et d'apprendre ensemble, de développer notre carrière et tous ont la possibilité de travailler sur de nouvelles technologies. Nous allons travailler ensemble, apprendre ensemble et nous amuser ensemble. En équipe, nous dirigerons la transformation numérique de HMH.