Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Role overview:

At SIE we want to enable PlayStation to deliver on its promise to be the Best Place to Play by making it the Best Place to Work! One way that we aim to achieve this by providing information and technology platforms that enable seamless working, communication and collaboration with colleagues and partners anywhere in the world.

The SIE IT Foundational Services department implements, enhances and supports products and services that underpin PlayStation’s business operations. SAP is a strategic solution in this space, and the platform currently comprises SAP S/4HANA, BW, and IBP. We are looking for a hands-on Global SAP Sales Ops Functional Analyst to drive, manage and support the delivery of technical solutions to ensure that the platform continues to meet the sales and distribution needs of the business globally.

You will collaborate with business partners from the Sales & Operations business functions to understand business goals and to identify and communicate how technical solutions can achieve them. You will do this by gathering, analysing and prioritising business requirements, and by working with business and technical teams to design, agree and coordinate the delivery of technical solutions that align with business strategies.

What you will be doing:

Helping to design, implement and support SAP S/4 HANA capabilities that underpin sophisticated sales and distribution business processes, including (but not limited to) order management, material master, pricing, ATP, MRP, delivery processing, billing, and customer order related reporting, by:

Translating business strategy into product strategy
Identifying business partners and engaging with them to discover, understand and define business problems and opportunities.
Understanding existing business processes, mapping out process flows and identifying areas for improvement.
Providing guidance and recommendations to business partners, driving standardisation and adoption of SAP standard processes globally whenever possible.
Owning the scoping, prioritisation, management and reporting of progress against identified S&O initiatives.
Working closely with internal and third-party business and technical teams to analyse and assess the impact of change requests on the SAP platform.
Eliciting and analysing business requirements to document and agree functional design specifications, ensuring that they receive the appropriate level of approval.
Analysing AS-IS and TO-BE system processes and configuration to assess impact on SD, MM and integration with FI-CO activities.
Validating the approach for delivery of system changes to ensure proper testing and documentation is completed.
Interface design, and co-ordinating and assisting with integration testing as required.
As required, working closely with internal and third-party technical teams to analyse and resolve production issues across the SAP platform.

What we are looking for:

At PlayStation we are driven by the desire to ensure that PlayStation remains the best place to play and the best place to work. This drive is fuelled by our core values: we are looking for people to join us who are passionate, trailblazers and have a one team mindset.

These values and behaviours are evident throughout your previous experience:

Technical SAP S/4 HANA experience, with hands-on experience of product implementation and production support primarily in Material Management (MM) and/or Sales & Distribution (SD);
Working across the full lifecycle of technology-enabled change: from requirements definition through solution design, build, testing to transition to live operation.
Sound understanding of the following areas:

Supply chain and logistics in a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) environment.
Product data management including Bill of Materials.
Data interfaces and system integration, including EDI and other interface solutions which involve IDOC interfaces between SAP MM/SD and non-SAP third-party warehouse, carrier and master data systems.
Key integration points between SD/MM/Purchasing/FICO.
Sales and Purchase to Pay scenarios, requisition release strategies and SAP PO and inventory functionality.
Warehouse environments and processes.

Working with offshore / near shore service providers
Comfortable dealing with senior team members and willing to challenge them based on sound reasoning.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Working within controlled/compliance-based environments (particularly Sarbanes Oxley) would be beneficial.

Your technical development and support competencies will include the following:

SAP S/4 HANA
FIORI
Experience of designing, implementing, and supporting sophisticated ABAP and Idoc developments

Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.

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Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

Global SAP Sales Ops Functional Analyst

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