IT Specialist - Finance

Avient has embarked on a multi-year journey to enhance our customer, supplier, vendor and associate experience through an enhanced ERP system! We are looking for a highly motivated Finance Specialist to join our IT team and play a pivotal role in this exciting project by helping us bring cutting edge solutions and innovation to our business operations. Through this project, incumbents will have an opportunity to make a positive impact on Avient's success and achieve exposure to all levels of leadership.

Our Avient IT team is seeking a Finance specialist to work with a talented team of associates to design and build a finance application landscape as part of our broader ERP implementation. In this role, you will work with IT and business associates to evaluate our current finance application landscape, design a refreshed application landscape and implement the newly designed solution. This role proactively collaborates with internal business partners and other IT colleagues to develop solutions that enable Avient to achieve its growth targets, build on our Great Place to Work certification, and meet its sustainability commitments.

Essential Functions

• Engages with a broad project team to implement S/4HANA, the latest version of SAP, which is replacing multiple SAP ECC platforms

• Examines current business procedures, system practices and IT designs and recommends new, improved and efficient solutions

• Assists with the identification of business requirements, challenging business partners to identify critical needs for both the current and future state, then works to translate those requirements into functional and system specifications to satisfy those requirements

• Works proactively with partners, both business and consultants, to ensure the work within the S/4 landscape and related applications are aligned with key project initiatives

• Works with business partners to identify test cases, then executes on the related scripts, documents results, and works across teams to redesign processes as needed

• Serves as a technical lead on individual aspects of the S/4 implementation, managing subprojects of small to medium size and complexity

• Supports all phases of the S/4 implementation, including Design, Build, Testing, Training and Deployment

• Other duties as assigned

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems is required

• 5+ years' experience as an S/4HANA IT analyst with a concentration in Finance is required

• Robust and demonstrated expertise with SAP Group Reporting is required

• Experience integrating S/4HANA with other finance applications such as Concur, Quantum and OneSource is required

• Technical understanding of S/4HANA Finance modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Fixed Assets is required

Additional Qualifications

• Strong collaboration skills within a team, across other IT functions, and with global business partners is required

• Experience in a global manufacturing environment with cross-border transactions and multiple legal entities is preferred

• Experience on a global S/4 implementation with multiple business units and legal entities is preferred

Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EHS&S) Requirements

• Avient integrates EHS&S into all aspects of our operations. Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EHS&S requirements. Additionally, employees and management are responsible for reporting all EHS&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EHS&S a priority within the organization.

Security includes physical security and cyber security.

Why Avient

Avient Corporation is a world-class sustainable organization built on innovation, collaboration, and employee development. We are committed to providing a supportive and dynamic work environment where our diverse associates can grow and succeed, as well positively impacting our planet and the communities we serve. Our Great Place to Work culture, values, and benefits make Avient an employer of choice for top talent.

We believe diversity of ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person's qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.

Avient Corporation is a drug free workplace. Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran's status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state and local law.

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