Business Process Optimization Jobs in Iowa

INTRODUCTION

Who are we, and what do we do? Corteva Agriscience creates the world's most recognized and premium agricultural solutions to address the greatest challenges in agriculture. With a focus on technology, Corteva Agriscience creates seed and crop protection products that increase productivity and profit for farmers while reducing risks to their business. Every day our digital tools deliver insights our global partners need to thrive now and into the future. As the world’s first dedicated agriculture start-up, we’re building a culture that stays curious, thinks differently, acts boldly and takes a stand on what’s right for our customers, our co-workers, our partners and our planet. We know we’ve got big challenges to solve - we hope you'll be part of the solution. Whether you are in the lab or on the farm, teaching classes or crafting code - we need bold thinkers and fearless doers to bring their best to the job at hand. Every role at Corteva Agriscience includes an opportunity to grow what matters.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Corteva Agriscience is looking for an SAP Treasury Business Process Expert (BPE) to be part of the Digital & Platforms ERP Finance team. Ideal candidate would have recent experience with conceptualizing, designing, implementing and supporting SAP-Treasury solutions, including Hedging. The BPE will be responsible for engineering, configuring, testing, and maintaining the SAP S/4HANA and surrounding Treasury, Cash-flow and Hedging solutions during the entire application lifecycle. The role includes strong knowledge of business processes within SAP S4-Treasury overall, and its interaction with S4-Finance (especially, AP and AR), and other non-SAP Treasury & Financial systems. This position defines and drives the strategy of putting the engineering elements in place to support Corteva’s Treasury vision and IT systems in the medium to long term. It involves discovering, validating, and mapping Treasury business function through interviewing, research, seeking industry trends and developments, and leveraging them for modeling, prototyping, simulating and analyzing current and future states using SAP-Treasury, to provide robust scalable solutions. The BPE must be able to bridge the IT and business domains and effectively communicate SAP Business Process Experts, configurators and Solution Architects within Corteva-IT to develop a consistent end-to-end SAP-Treasury solution. The BPE will thoroughly understand the Corteva Agriscience Treasury and Hedging business strategy and processes to help manage the ERP-Finance Product Roadmap.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES - How will you help us Grow!

- SAP Business Process Expert for S/4HANA global solution spanning multiple countries over North America, Europe, LATAM, and Asia-Pacific for Treasury and Hedging.
- Exhibits good command over more than one of the following areas in SAP Treasury: Cash Management, In-house Cash, Payments, Multi-Bank Connectivity, Trading Platform Integration, Short and long-term investments and Debt instruments, Credit Risk and Market data management, and Loans management (FS-CML).
- Understands business processes related to Financial Instruments hedging, such as intercompany loans and derivatives e.g. FX options and FX forwards, or Commodities hedging.
- Should translate and map the business processes to enable design in SAP-TR, Hedging and surrounding applications. Help cull out end-to-end functional and non-functional system requirements, including integration with other non-SAP tools and systems surrounding the S/4 platform.
- Has hands-on ability to independently prototype SAP solution to meet end-to-end Treasury & Hedging requirements, or define work-breakdown structure for a configuration and development team to develop a cohesive working solution.
- Is able to engineer SAP TRM configuration and enhancements for a robust and scalable solution.
- Researches current trends and best practices, to advise business leads and IT-configurators around best solution approach for Corteva.
- Has hands-on ability to write system design documents, including detailed design, technical design, update requirements traceability, and test scenarios, cases.
- Envisions critical scenarios, and points-of-failure in end-to-end process and defines relevant test cases. Perform end-to-end functional and non-functional testing of system in meeting requirements, including unit-testing, SIT, UAT, regression testing, and performance testing.
- Can identify & define process and systems’ dependencies while implementing new SAP functionality in the context of ongoing enterprise business and IT initiatives.
- Can understand requirements, perform fit-gap analysis, provide estimates, suggest process and technology improvements.
- Manages the quarterly S4 upgrade process through evaluation, regression testing, and deployment.
- Helps with SAP-Treasury Security role design.
- Owns the service delivery of end-to-end SAP Treasury applications in the Production environment.
- Designs & maintains integration of SAP Treasury with SAP-Finance and other non-SAP platforms for cash-application, reconciliation, and monitoring.
- Preferably, is experienced with SWIFT integration services, ISO20022, and non-SAP Supply Chain Finance solutions.
- Prefer solution design experience demonstrating understanding and handling of various Treasury business processes’ design and SAP integration experience with 3rd party platforms like Serrala, FIS, 360T, IT2, Bloomberg etc.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION – What you'll bring to the table!

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Treasury or related field. CPA / CFA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
- Ideal candidate would come with experience in Oil & Gas, Utilities or Financial Services industries implementing and supporting SAP Treasury.
- Prior domain or functional experience with Treasury and Hedging functions in large companies.
- Understands how derivatives work in SAP, using FX Option or FX Forward derivatives as underlying instruments. Experience with commodities futures, margin payments, or options instruments would is useful.
- Ability to research requirements, solutions, evaluate alternative approaches, and present recommended solution in SAP, or similar Treasury systems.
- Ability to work in high-pressure project environment with speed & agility.
- Strong attention to detail and quality/accuracy of deliverables, preferring outcomes over outputs.
- Demonstrated effectiveness and ability to work independently, and drive results with peers, stakeholders, and customers.
- Acts honestly and professionally, ability to handle highly confidential and time-sensitive information.
- Ability to prioritize and multitask under minimal supervision.
- Decisive ability to recognize when to act and when to escalate.
- Demonstrable accumulated knowledge of Treasury processes in a global environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working with large vendor partners and suppliers, and 3rd party contractors preferred.

BENEFITS – How We’ll Support You

- Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills
- Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place
- Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment
- Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays
- Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father
- Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program

Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team. Corteva Agriscience is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing our differences to enrich lives, advance innovation, and boost company performance. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, military or veteran status, pregnancy related conditions (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), disability or any other protected status in accordance with federal, state, or local laws.