SAP Finance Technical / Functional Consultant

Position: SAP Finance Technical / Functional Consultant

We are looking for a strong SAP Finance Technical / Functional Consultant with 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably with significant experience in SAP FI technical work, S/4HANA transformation/migration projects, CDS Views, and SAP Finance data/analytics.

The candidate should be able to bridge SAP Finance business processes with SAP technical data structures and downstream analytics/reporting requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as an SAP Finance SME across SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA Finance.
• Provide strong technical expertise across SAP FI/CO, including GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing and financial close processes.
• Work extensively on SAP Finance migration/transformation projects, particularly ECC-to-S/4HANA or similar modernization programs.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of S/4HANA Finance architecture and data model, including:
• Universal Journal / ACDOCA
• Business Partner
• Asset Accounting
• Controlling data
• Margin Analysis
• S/4HANA data-model changes/simplifications
• Analyze and understand SAP CDS Views, including their underlying data sources, joins/associations, filters, calculations and use in reporting/analytics.
• Identify and analyze SAP source tables, fields and business logic behind Finance reports and transactions.
• Read and analyze ABAP/custom Z programs, function modules, BADIs and user exits to understand Finance business logic and data derivations.
• Work with SAP data extraction mechanisms such as CDS-based extraction, ODP, SAP extractors and/or SLT.
• Translate SAP Finance business and technical logic into source-to-target mappings, transformation specifications and data requirements for Data Engineering/Analytics teams.
• Support the design and validation of SAP Finance data for analytical and reporting use cases.
• Reconcile data between SAP ECC/S/4HANA and downstream analytical/reporting platforms, including document-level validation, financial amounts, balances, record counts and business-rule validation.
• Support SIT, UAT, regression testing and production validation.
• Work closely with Finance, SAP Technical, Data Engineering and BI/Analytics teams.
  

Mandatory Technical Requirements

Candidates must have strong hands-on experience in most of the following areas:

• 5+ years relevant SAP Finance experience
• Strong SAP FI/CO technical/functional expertise
• Strong SAP S/4HANA Finance experience
• Hands-on experience in SAP Finance migration/transformation projects
• Strong understanding of ACDOCA / Universal Journal
• Hands-on CDS Views experience analysis, data sources, joins/associations, filters and reporting/analytics use cases
• Strong understanding of SAP Finance tables and data structures
• Ability to analyze/read ABAP and custom Z programs
• Experience with SAP data extraction such as CDS/ODP/extractors/SLT
• Experience translating SAP logic into source-to-target mappings and transformation rules
• Experience with SAP Finance reporting/data reconciliation
• Ability to explain how S/4HANA Finance data is leveraged for analytics and reporting
  
  

Good to Have

• SAP BW/BW4HANA
• ODP / SAP BW extractors
• SLT replication
• SQL
• Power BI or other enterprise BI platforms
• Databricks / Delta Lake
• Data warehouse / dimensional modelling
• ECC-to-S/4HANA migration or modernization
• Experience working with Data Engineering teams