SAP Finance Consultant

Accenture PLC; Montreal; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Montreal, Canada, seeks an SAP Finance Senior Lead with strong SAP FICO and S/4HANA expertise to lead finance workstreams across project phases and ensure solutions meet regulatory and business needs.

You will drive fit-to-standard decisions, govern end-to-end testing, and collaborate with cloud teams while staying current with SAP technologies like SAP Integrations Suite, Fiori, and S/4HANA innovations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or college program completed.
• 4+ years SAP FICO implementation experience.
• 1 full lifecycle implementation of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition.
• In-depth knowledge of SAP Activate methodology.
• Strong ability to lead configuration workshops.
• Experience working with cloud platform teams.
• English required; French is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Provide functional leadership and support for SAP Finance workstreams across project phases.
• Support the definition of finance solution approaches aligned with requirements and SAP best practices.
• Facilitate fit-to-standard and fit-gap workshops with business stakeholders.
• Provide expertise across GL, AP, AR, AA, PCA, and CO-PA and support end-to-end integration.
• Work with technical teams to ensure testing and integration across SAP and external systems.
• Mentor teams and contribute to scalable, maintainable finance solutions.

Skills

SAP FICO

S/4HANA

GL/AP/AR

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

SAP Integration Suite

SAP Fiori

Job description

We Are:

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients' transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. Stronger together! The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving our clients' business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. Now, with the global environment changing at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges, and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients. The value for our clients and our people. For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world. For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world's most complex client challenges.

You Are:

You are a seasoned SAP Finance Senior Lead with strong expertise in SAP FICO and SAP S/4HANA. You bring a combination of functional expertise, hands-on delivery experience, and client advisory skills. You have experience supporting and contributing to complex SAP programs across design, implementation, testing, go-live, and ongoing support. Provide functional leadership and support for SAP Finance workstreams across project phases, including design, realization, testing, go-live, and post-go-live support. Support the definition of finance solution approaches, ensuring alignment with business requirements, regulatory needs, and SAP best practices. Facilitate and participate in fit-to-standard and fit-gap workshops with business stakeholders, helping assess options and reach practical solution decisions. Provide functional expertise across SAP FICO, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), and CO-PA. Apply knowledge of SAP Banking and financial services processes, including banking operations, regulatory requirements, payments, cash management, and financial reporting. Support integration of SAP Finance with external applications and third-party systems, including banking, payment, tax, treasury, procurement, payroll, and other enterprise applications. Work with technical and integration teams to understand and support end-to-end integration across SAP and non-SAP landscapes, including APIs, web services, middleware, SAP Integration Suite, and related technologies. Leverage experience across multiple industries to understand industry-specific finance processes, regulatory considerations, operating models, and business requirements. Maintain awareness of SAP technologies and innovations, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Integrations Suite, SAP Fiori, embedded analytics, and emerging capabilities, and assess their relevance to finance solutions. Support end-to-end testing activities, including test planning, integration testing, system integrations testing (SIT), user acceptance (UAT), regression testing, defect management, and business-process validation. Work with functional and technical teams to ensure SAP and external-system integrations are adequately tested across relevant business scenarios. Identify opportunities to leverage SAP capabilities and emerging technologies to simplify, automate, and improve finance processes while maintaining practical and sustainable solutions. Contribute to solution design with consideration for integration, performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability. Provide oversight and guidance for configuration, functional specifications, RICEFW development, testing, and quality activities within the assigned workstream. Support the management of workstream risks, issues, dependencies, and key decisions, escalating significant matters and collaborating with project and client leadership as appropriate.

Here’s what you need:

• Bachelor's degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline.
• 4+ years of SAP FICO implementation experience.
• 1 full lifecycle implementation of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition.
• In-depth knowledge of SAP Activate methodology.
• Strong ability to lead configuration workshops.
• Experience working with cloud platform teams.
• English is required for this position as this role and French is an asset.

Bonus points if:

• You hold SAP S/4HANA Cloud Finance certification.
• You have multi-cloud platform experience.
• Fluency in English is required, French an asset.

Preferred location:

Montreal, Canada. This role requires to be in office 3 days per week.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate. Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Hourly Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $39.71 to $63.75

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services - creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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