Technical Consultant

AFLAC, INCORPORATED. • City of Daşşak, NY, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

Aflac Asset Management, LLC, (d.b.a. Aflac Global Investments or GI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aflac, Incorporated (Aflac). GI is headquartered in New York’s financial district at 100 Wall Street and is the organization responsible for the overall investment activities of Aflac and its subsidiaries in Japan, the U.S., and Bermuda. With ~150 employees globally, GI manages an investment strategy focused on maximizing long-term returns with a focus on preservation of capital, subject to our affiliated insurance company’s objectives for income, asset-liability management, liquidity, and capital. GI is responsible for generating approximately $3.5 billion of annual investment income from Aflac’s general accounts from a mix of public and private assets (including strategic partnerships) across multiple geographies and currencies. As of year-end 2022, Aflac’s total general account portfolio was $111 billion.

Please note: Aflac Global Investments' hybrid working environment requires a minimum of 3 days in the office each week.

Job Summary

Provides technical leadership as well as functioning as a point person for the Investments Accounting – IT team and leverages SAP-FAM expertise to deliver IT support to business end users. Serve as a liaison between IT and business partners and provides the advanced technical expertise to ensure the quality of advancements within the IT system including understanding and developing business requirements. Translate business requirements into SAP-FAN functional requirements and process flows. Applies SAP – FAM configuration changes and communicate requirements to the development team including vendors and the extended support team. Plan and execute extensive testing and documentation to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions. Aflac’s infrastructure, systems and software solutions are of the highest quality and meet the desired functional, operational and security requirements; develops, maintains, and integrates application software, related project management activity, and production support; develops optimal relationships with internal and external clients, business analysts, and team members; continues to maintain and support software and key infrastructure after implementation.

Reports to: Director, SAP - FAM Architect - Investment Accounting - IT

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

Operates as either a project lead or work on other projects as a member of the team providing advanced technical expertise.
Works on small, large complex and enterprise-wide projects that require the highest level of expertise; participates on project teams, systems and data analysis, design, development, integration, and enhancement activities, as well as related maintenance and more complex production support.
Provides direct SAP-FAM support services for Investment Accounting – IT team and business users throughout the investments team.
Leads on SAP-FAM projects, initiatives and BAU support for all users.
Leads design sessions with business partners to enable SAP-FAM solutions that allow for process improvements and efficiencies; this includes supporting the business end users.
Communicates SAP-enabled concepts simply and effectively to a non-technical audience.
Leads the delivery of functional requirements, use cases, interface specifications, process flows, risk and issue logs, test plans, training plans and production elevation & validation plans. Provides detailed estimates for the designing, building, testing and deployment phases of all work efforts and/or projects.
Facilitates and ensures on-time completion of performance, load, functional and other categories of testing and application vulnerability testing efforts and resolution of issues; develops new cross-functional software systems using disciplined software development processes.
Prepares and presents status updates for various projects as needed.

Education and Experience:

Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or a related field. Experience supporting Investment Accounting and other Investment professionals in IT capacity strongly welcomed.
Six or more years of relevant work experience that has provided an understanding of organizational systems and capabilities, business operations and requirements, business modeling concepts and software development methodologies.
Hands-on experience in Investment Accounting System. SAP-FAM(TRM) is preferred. Other systems, such as PAM, CAMRA and Clearwater, is a plus.
Good verbal, written, interpersonal and presentation skills to effectively interact and negotiate with internal/external customers; ability to maintain professionalism in accordance with corporate standards.

Job Knowledge:

Understanding Business Requirements
Documenting Business Processes
Developing System Process Flows
Writing Functional Specifications
Creating and Executing Unit Test Plans
Experience with the SAP SDLC
Experience with MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word
Good Presentation Skills
Good Technical Writing
Strong Communication Skills

The range on this position is: $87,000 - $200,000.

This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. The range has been created in good faith based on information known to Aflac at the time of the posting. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. This salary range does not include any potential incentive pay or benefits, however, such information will be provided separately when appropriate.

In addition to the base salary, we offer an array of benefits to meet your needs including medical, dental, and vision coverage, prescription drug coverage, health care flexible spending, dependent care flexible spending, Aflac supplemental policies, 401(k) plans, and generous paid time off. You’ll also be granted time off for designated paid holidays and other leaves of absence, if eligible, when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being. Aflac complies with all applicable leave laws, including, but not limited to sick, adoption and parental leave, in all states and localities.