Senior SAP S4HANA FICO Consultant

Job Responsibilities

• Review customers financial processes and provide recommendations on process improvements using SAP S4HANA
• Provides guidance in the definition of solution design practices and standards that link back to SAP best practices.
• Translates business goals into appropriate solutions while assessing feasibility and optimization of the solution.
• Participates in the development of cost/benefit analysis.
• Ability to lead and facilitate design workshops (Blueprint) assessments planning sessions i.e. demonstrate leadership experience in project management.
• Ability to lead and configure the solution (must have advanced hands-on configuration experience).
• Make recommendations on implementation of the SAP applications as well as integration with third party systems
• Ability to perform quality control on the finance portion of an implementation project.
• Conduct work effort estimation and develop work plans.
• Work with stakeholders such as the business and IT clients as well as the team both onsite and offshore.
• Demonstrate cross functional leadership i.e. ability to look at the end to end process and understand how it fits together.
• Guide and Mentor the finance team
• Adhere to project plans tasks and deliverable; identifies dependencies and resource requirements.
• Appropriately communicates project status escalates issues and manages timelines and action items.
• Develops proof of concepts to demonstrate proposed technical solutions.
• Develops and maintains working relationships with a diverse group of business functional and technical teams.

Skills/ Experience Required

• 7 years experience in various leadership roles in the planning design and deployment of SAPs financial solutions.
• Involved with 3-4 End to End SAP Project Implementation.
• 7 years experience in SAP FI and CO modules - General Ledger (GL) Accounts Payable (AP) Accounts Receivable (AR) Cost and Profit Center Accounting (CPA) CO Profitable Analyst (COPA)
• Strong experience in the following industries; FMCG distribution and Pharmaceutical Distribution
• Strong team building skills with ability to build quick and effective work rapport with distributed team members.
• In-depth finance business experience working on SAP planning design and implementation of projects
• Understanding of software development life cycle and methodologies
• Experienced in troubleshooting system & data issues
• English is a must
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in finance/ Accounting is preferred.
• SAP Certification preferred but not mandatory