SAP FI Consultant

As an SAP FICO consultant the person will analyze the business processes and evaluate fitment of SAP application for the defined processes.

Also the person will suggest solutions/customizations where there are gaps vis-a-vis standard SAP product. This process will also involve data conversion from other non-SAP systems, integration with other SAP&Non-SAP systems to enable on-going data exchange and report errors in processes and/or data

Responsibilities

Solution Design & Configuration

• Analyze current-state business processes and define future-state SAP Finance solutions.
• Conduct fit-gap assessments for finance processes, integrations, reports, conversions, and enhancements.
• Configure and support:
• General Ledger (GL)
• Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Accounts Payable (AP)
• Asset Accounting (AA)
• Cost Center Accounting
• Profit Center Accounting
• Internal Orders
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
• Configure finance capabilities including:
• Document Splitting
• Financial Segmentation
• Foreign Currency Valuation
• Automatic Account Determination
• Payment Terms
• Dunning
• Automatic Payment Program (APP)
• Electronic Bank Statements (EBS)
• Lockbox Processing
• Withholding Tax
• Payment Formats using DMEE

Integration & Collaboration

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and align solution designs.
• Work closely with SAP SD, MM, Basis, Integration, API, and development teams.
• Support interface development, custom enhancements, reports, workflows, and integration objects.
• Prepare clear and detailed functional specifications.

Testing & Deployment

• Support Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, and Production Validation.
• Execute cutover planning and deployment activities.
• Maintain production configuration settings, variants, and scheduling parameters.

Production Support

• Monitor SAP interfaces, IDocs, background jobs, and finance processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues within service-level targets.
• Support month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Coordinate SAP Notes implementation and SAP support engagements.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve operational efficiency.
• Deliver user training, documentation, and knowledge transfer activities.
• Support SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration, upgrade, rollout, and transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

Description

The Senior SAP S/4HANA Finance Consultant will lead finance process design, system configuration, testing, deployment, and production support activities. The role requires extensive experience in SAP Financial Accounting, banking integrations, payment processing, and cross-functional integration with Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), and technical teams.

The successful candidate will work closely with business users, project teams, and integration partners to analyze requirements, recommend solutions, support SAP S/4HANA transformation initiatives, and ensure stable production operations.

Responsibilities

Solution Design & Configuration

• Analyze current-state business processes and define future-state SAP Finance solutions.
• Conduct fit-gap assessments for finance processes, integrations, reports, conversions, and enhancements.
• Configure and support:
• General Ledger (GL)
• Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Accounts Payable (AP)
• Asset Accounting (AA)
• Cost Center Accounting
• Profit Center Accounting
• Internal Orders
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
• Configure finance capabilities including:
• Document Splitting
• Financial Segmentation
• Foreign Currency Valuation
• Automatic Account Determination
• Payment Terms
• Dunning
• Automatic Payment Program (APP)
• Electronic Bank Statements (EBS)
• Lockbox Processing
• Withholding Tax
• Payment Formats using DMEE

Integration & Collaboration

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and align solution designs.
• Work closely with SAP SD, MM, Basis, Integration, API, and development teams.
• Support interface development, custom enhancements, reports, workflows, and integration objects.
• Prepare clear and detailed functional specifications.

Testing & Deployment

• Support Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, and Production Validation.
• Execute cutover planning and deployment activities.
• Maintain production configuration settings, variants, and scheduling parameters.

Production Support

• Monitor SAP interfaces, IDocs, background jobs, and finance processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues within service-level targets.
• Support month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Coordinate SAP Notes implementation and SAP support engagements.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve operational efficiency.
• Deliver user training, documentation, and knowledge transfer activities.
• Support SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration, upgrade, rollout, and transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of SAP FICO consulting experience.
• Hands-on SAP S/4HANA Finance configuration experience.
• Experience with at least one end-to-end SAP implementation project.
• Strong knowledge of:
• General Ledger
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Asset Accounting
• Cost Center Accounting
• Profit Center Accounting
• Internal Orders
• Banking and Payment Processes
• Experience integrating SAP Finance with SAP SD and SAP MM.
• Experience preparing functional specifications and supporting testing activities.
• Working knowledge of SAP Business Partner functionality and SAP Fiori applications.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration or conversion experience.
• Experience with Treasury and Banking processes.
• Knowledge of BAI2, MT940, Payment Medium Workbench, and API integrations.
• Exposure to SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
• Experience with AutoSys job scheduling and monitoring.
• Understanding of IDoc processing and ABAP debugging.
• Experience with process automation tools such as Blue Prism.

Experience within automotive industry environments.