SAP Finance AP Lead

Roles & Responsibilities • Lead the design and implementation of SAP Accounts Payable (AP) and Controlling (CO) solutions within SAP S/4 HANA Finance domain. • Drive end-to-end Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process design, including invoice processing, vendor management, and payment runs. • Define cost allocation cycles, planning, budgeting, and variance analysis frameworks. • Ensure alignment with business performance management and reporting needs. • Ensure alignment with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal controls. • Lead functional workstream delivery across SAP S/4HANA implementations, upgrades, and rollouts. • Drive adoption of S/4HANA innovations such as Universal Journal and real-time analytics. • Conduct workshops to gather and analyse business requirements for financial track. • Translate requirements into functional design and configuration specifications. • Collaborate with FI, MM, SD, and cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end integration. • Collaborate with technical (ABAP) teams for enhancements, interfaces, and integrations. • Design and review functional specifications for RICEF objects. • Support data migration, testing (SIT/UAT), and cutover activities. Technical Responsibilities • Configure and drive SAP FI-AP modules and key processes, including: Vendor master data, Invoice posting and validation, Automatic payment program (F110), Withholding tax and tax integration. • Configure and drive SAP FI-CO modules and key processes, including: Cost Centre Accounting (COCCA), Profit Centre Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing(PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Variance Calculations, Over Heads, WIP Calculations Settlement, Actual Price Calculation, Budget Planning. • Nice to have experience in: Asset Accounting and REFX, Fund Management and Grant Management. Role Requirement • Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related discipline. • Over 10 years of SAP experience, including at least 5 years with S/4HANA. • Experience with cloud-based SAP deployments (e.g., RISE with SAP) and full lifecycle SAP implementations (design-build-test-deployment-hypercare). • Completed a minimum of 3 end-to-end implementation projects (lasting at least 4 years in total), with at least 2 of them being S/4HANA projects. • More than 5 years of team lead experience and managed and led at least 3 team members. • Has worked on projects involving at least 20 company codes and/or plants.