Job Description
Title: ERP Program - SAP Finance Solution Specialist FICO
Resume Due Date: Wednesday October 1st 2025 (5:00PM EST)
Number of Vacancies: 2
Level: MP5 upto $100/hr INC
Duration: 24 months
Hours of work:40
Location: 700 University Ave & Oshawa (Hybrid 2 days remote)
Job Overview
The SAP FICO & Finance Solution Specialist plays a strategic role in architecting configuring and delivering end-to-end financial processes within a modern S/4HANA landscape. This position combines technical mastery with business acumen advisory capability and transformational leadership. The successful candidate will drive value across record-to-report planning consolidation and enterprise performance management while ensuring strong integration compliance and alignment with OPGs enterprise architecture and innovation goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead solution design and implementation for core SAP FICO processes: General Ledger (GL) Accounts Payable (AP) Accounts Receivable (AR) Asset Accounting (AA) Bank Accounting Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting Internal Orders Product Costing Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Project Systems (PS).
- Design and configure advanced finance capabilities: parallel ledgers chart of accounts profit center hierarchy intercompany eliminations and tax localization.
- Drive seamless integration with adjacent modules: Materials Management (MM) Sales & Distribution (SD) Production Planning (PP) Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Human Resources (HR).
- Analyze and translate business requirements into SAP-enabled solutions conducting fit-gap analysis blueprinting and supporting end-to-end project delivery using SAP Activate and agile methodologies.
- Develop and validate reporting and analytics using SAP Fiori apps SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) embedded analytics SAP BW/4HANA and BusinessObjects.
- Support financial planning consolidation and group reporting including integration with planning tools (e.g. Anaplan) and multi-entity multinational requirements.
- Risk Management: Identify assess and mitigate project risks related to finance solutions and data migration.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls (SOX ICOFR) audit readiness and regulatory/tax localization.
- Oversee data migration data mapping and master data management ensuring data quality and governance in collaboration with business owners.
- Collaborate with ABAP NetWeaver and integration teams to deliver custom enhancements interfaces and reporting solutions.
- Provide post-go-live support troubleshooting and continuous improvement for SAP FICO processes.
- Deliver user training documentation and change management support to finance and business teams.
- Mentor team members and foster a collaborative high-performing environment.
Solution Architecture & Governance
- Align finance solution architecture with OPGs enterprise architecture leveraging tools such as LeanIX and Signavio for process modeling and documentation.
- Ensure all design decisions reflect SAP best practices industry standards and extensibility via SAP BTP and NetWeaver.
- Collaborate with technical architects and project managers to validate blueprint design system scalability and integration across modules and third-party systems.
- Apply configuration expertise (IMG/SPRO) to support design validation gap analysis and fit-to-standard enablement.
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Accounting Finance Business Information Technology or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
- 10 years of SAP FICO experience with at least 2 full-cycle S/4HANA implementations.
- Strong expertise in financial close planning consolidation and regulatory reporting (IFRS GAAP multi-entity).
- Proven experience with SAP Fiori embedded analytics NetWeaver and integration with MM SD PP EAM HR.
- Knowledge of SAP Activate methodology value engineering and data governance.
- Experience with post-go-live support troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
- Excellent analytical advisory and communication skills.
- Experience in utilities asset-intensive or regulated industries is an asset.
Certifications & Education
- SAP Certified Application Associate Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA or equivalent.
- Additional certifications in SAP S/4HANA project management (PMP Scrum Master) or data analytics (e.g. SAP Analytics Cloud) are a plus.
- Data governance or management certifications (e.g. CDMP Collibra Ranger) are valued.
- Cloud data engineering certifications (AWS Azure or Google Cloud Data Engineer) are an asset.
Core Competencies
- Deep expertise in SAP FI/CO modules and finance transformation.
- Solution architecture and integration skills across SAP and non-SAP systems.
- Compliance controls and data quality focus.
- Leadership stakeholder engagement and advisory capability.
- Results-oriented innovative and collaborative mindset.
- Experience working with or alongside global consulting firms in ERP or digital transformation.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority