Job Description
FRESH. FORWARD. FLOWERS.
Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO) is not just about baking; it's about crafting moments of joy with every delicious bite. With 2024 sales of $5.1 billion, and as one of the leading producers of packaged bakery goods in the United States, Flowers Foods brings passion to the table. From the wholesome goodness of Nature's Own and Wonder to the bold and artisanal flavors of Dave's Killer Bread, the rustic goodness of Canyon Bakehouse, and the sweet delights of Tastykake, each product is a celebration of taste and quality. Beyond the oven, Flowers Foods fosters a culture that values and reflects Honesty & Integrity, Respect & Inclusion, Sustainability, Passion, and Humility. With a commitment to innovation and a recipe for success, Flowers Foods is more than a bakery – it's a delightful journey into the heart of flavor and community.
Full-time employees are offered the following benefits:
- Comprehensive health and medical benefits
- 401(k) Retirement savings plan
- Professional growth and leadership training
- Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave
Benefits may vary depending on your work location.
Bringing Home the Dough
Position is responsible for execution of SAP Financials solution and services including projects, enhancements and application support in collaboration with the Flowers business and internal IT partners and management.
Position will be responsible for multiple financial accounting subprocesses.
The lead analyst will have business domain expertise in finance and management accounting and SAP functional expertise in multiple submodules of SAP such as GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Internal Orders, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Product Costing, Project Systems, FS-CM, BPC or Hyperion.
Position requires an individual who is results oriented and value proposition driven.
Rising to the Challenge: Position Responsibilities
- Prioritize project, enhancement and support requests with business and IT stakeholders and managing delivery
- Develop systems requirements, design, configure, prototype, work with IT teams to realize the change, work with finance users to test, train, define support procedures and roll out SAP FICO business solutions under multiple deadlines
- Create functional design documents for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions. Create business process functional diagrams, test plans, test scripts and training documentation.
- Execute SAP FICO functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management, SAP CoE teams, SAP managed services providers and related 3rd party application service providers.
- Ensure the consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP financial and management accounting applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance and reference architectures.
- Assist in evaluation of functionality enhancements in SAP FICO upgrades and work with infrastructure and operations team in managing the roll-out of upgrades
- Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues.
- Seek out continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations.
- Continually assess the impact of emerging SAP and other IT technologies in the area of expertise against strategic business needs and interpret business value for the IT management.
- Perform other duties which are deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including, but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures.
Knead to Know: Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive experience SAP FICO application design, development, quality assurance, testing, training, implementation and support processes, including:
- 1+ years of experience in an IT management and leadership role
- 1+ full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO and related integrations and bolt-ons such as SAP BPC (or Hyperion), Blackline, Vertex and other 3rd party supporting applications using ASAP, Agile and other SDLC methodologies.
- Experience leading SAP FICO processes and integrating with end-to-end process design
- Experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
- Full life-cycle SAP implementation in FICO experience in North America.
- Experience integrating SAP FICO solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.
Additional Ingredients: Essential Job Requirements
- An undergraduate bachelors or post graduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering or Business Administration.. CPA preferred.
Salary Range- $115,000 - $130,000
We offer a competitive salary and an excellent total rewards package. Interested job seekers who successfully complete the series of pre-screening questions and who appear to possess the basic qualifications for this position may be contacted for a telephone interview.
EEO Statement
Flowers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Flowers encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or people of any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The job description above outlines the general nature and level of work expected from employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this position. Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.
If you need assistance with submitting your resume due to a medical condition or disability, please send an e-mail to Joanie Stringer at or (1) 229 9772697.
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