SAP Reinsurance (SAP RI) Consultant

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description
The Vended Application Expert provides expertise across all major functions in their area(s) of the business and delivers product features utilizing vended software, particularly ERP applications, by applying knowledge of the application's functionality and client business processes. The role creates technical and process designs and configures vendor software for the highly complex new or existing enterprise-wide and business-unit applications and maintenance efforts. The VAA Expert knows vendor feature roadmaps and capabilities and leverages developer groups and support processes to gain insight and provide direction.

Key Responsibilities

In partnership with the business groups and technical teams, provide knowledge and support for resolving technology issues in multiple areas of the business; acknowledged as a subject matter expert in multiple processes and applications and can represent Allstate in external discussions

Create the functional design, leveraging moderate technical skills, to address highly complex business processes or issues or to address the requirements of a set of product features

Configure or develop within vendor software; identify applicable new vendor release features. Leverage vendor defect resolution procedures and developer groups to validate approach and resolve issues.

Develop overall product planning by contributing to/creating stories for highly complex features in areas of responsibility, including guiding the story development for other team members who may be learning

Organize, lead and finalize feature review sessions for complex business issues/requirements and document resulting decisions; provide coaching to newer team members on their features and delivery

• Strong hands-on experience in SAP RI module configuration and customization.
• Knowledge of SAP PaPM, FS-CD, FI/CO integration, and insurance industry processes (preferred)