SAP Finance Lead
Job Summary
As an SAP AP and CO Lead Consultant, you will lead finance transformation initiatives, focusing on scalable and efficient management accounting and accounts payable solutions. You will work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver, implement, and optimize processes within the SAP S/4HANA Finance domain. The role requires extensive experience in end-to-end P2P process design, cost allocation, and complex financial integration across large-scale company environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead SAP AP and CO design and implementation
- Drive end-to-end P2P process and S/4HANA transformations
- Define cost allocation, budgeting, and variance analysis
- Manage cross-functional teams and technical integration
- Support data migration, SIT/UAT, and cutover activities
Required Skills
- 10+ years SAP experience
- 5+ years S/4HANA expertise
- Strong FI-AP and FI-CO module knowledge
- 3+ end-to-end implementation projects
- Team leadership experience (3+ members)
Job Details
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, reporting needs, 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 the 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 including vendor master data, invoice posting, automatic payment program (F110), and tax integration.
- Configure and drive SAP FI-CO modules including Cost Center Accounting (COCCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Variance Calculations.
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.
- 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, having managed and led at least 3 team members.
- Experience working on projects involving at least 20 company codes and/or plants.