YOUR ROLE

  • Own the end-to-end SAP FICO solution architecture and ensure it meets business, regulatory, and technical requirements.
  • Lead discovery and fit-to-standard workshops; translate business needs into scalable SAP designs.
  • Provide architecture and design leadership across core FI processes, including:
    1. General Ledger and financial close
    2. Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
    3. Asset Accounting
    4. Bank Accounting, payments, and cash-related processes
    5. Tax and statutory reporting requirements
  • Guide solution design across core CO processes, including:
    1. Cost Center Accounting and Internal Orders
    2. Profit Center Accounting
    3. Cost allocations, assessments, and distributions
    4. Product Costing and cost-object controlling
    5. Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
    6. Planning, budgeting, settlement, and period-end activities
  • Ensure Finance and Controlling designs integrate effectively with procurement, sales, manufacturing, banking, and external systems.
  • Guide SAP S/4HANA Finance implementations, conversions, migrations, and global rollouts.
  • Review solution designs, functional specifications, configuration, extensions, and integration approaches.
  • Advise on SAP standard capabilities, suitable extensions, and clean-core principles.
  • Guide data migration, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare planning for FICO workstreams.
  • Identify design gaps, dependencies, and risks; recommend options and explain their business impact.
  • Work closely with customer stakeholders, project leadership, functional and technical teams, and global delivery teams.
  • Contribute to proposals, estimates, roadmaps, and presales discussions.
  • Mentor senior consultants and support consistent design practices across projects.

YOUR PROFILE

  • 12+ years of SAP FICO experience, including significant solution design and architecture responsibilities.
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of SAP FI in ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.
  • Practical working experience with core SAP CO processes and a sound understanding of how they support management accounting and controlling.
  • Experience designing or delivering cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting.
  • Understanding of planning, settlement, and period-end activities in CO.
  • Experience with at least two end-to-end SAP implementations, conversions, or major transformation programs.
  • Strong understanding of finance processes, accounting principles, and period-end and year-end close.
  • Experience leading customer workshops and communicating solution options to business and IT stakeholders.
  • Understanding of integration between FI/CO and other SAP modules, particularly MM, SD, and PP.
  • Experience with architecture governance, design reviews, and delivery across distributed teams.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills.
  • SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation or migration experience.
  • Knowledge of Universal Journal, Fiori, New Asset Accounting, and S/4HANA financial close capabilities.
  • Exposure to Central Finance, Treasury, Cash Management, or FSCM.
  • Experience with SAP Activate, fit-to-standard methods, and clean-core approaches.
  • Relevant SAP certifications.
  • Experience in a consulting or global delivery environment.