SAP Finance/ Functional Lead (FI, GL)

Accenture PLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 132,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced SAP Finance Lead to drive finance transformation and operational excellence across client engagements in Canada. You will lead finance reporting, analytics, and process improvements, leveraging SAP S/4HANA Finance and FICO expertise.

Travel to client sites is required; you will partner with cross-functional stakeholders and guide strategic financial processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and business impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in SAP FICO.
• Expert proficiency in SAP S/4HANA Finance.
• Strong experience in financial reporting, analytics, and finance operations.
• Proven ability to lead teams and influence stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in leading business process reengineering efforts to optimize finance-related workflows and enhance process efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance reporting, analytics, and operational support activities.
• Drive improvements in financial reporting accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in SAP S/4HANA Finance and finance processes.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align finance operations with business goals.
• Provide strategic guidance on financial processes, systems, and reporting tools.
• Support decision-making through actionable insights and financial analysis.
• Promote best practices and continuous improvement across finance operations.

Skills

SAP FICO

S/4HANA Finance

Financial reporting

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Tools

SAP FI/CO

Job description

ARE YOU READY to step up and take your technology expertise to the next level?
There is never a typical day at Accenture, but that’s why we love it here! This is an extraordinary chance to create a rewarding career at Accenture Technology. Working in a digitally driven, innovation-led environment where you can help clients shift to the New using leading-edge technologies on some of the coolest projects you can imagine.

We are:
Accenture’s SAP practice, and we bring the New to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech like IoT, automation, and AI. We even built myConcerto, a mix of SAP and Accenture that helps lead our clients to big wins. Ready to learn as much as you can? We train our people on “new” SAP like SAP Leonardo, S/4HANA and Cloud, and we offer classes and support through our 50,000+ member community. It’s also nice to know our hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. We’ve got over 70 SAP awards—more than any other partner—and we’re the leading business partner for SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris, SAP FieldGlass, SAP Concur, and more. Visit us here to find out more about Accenture’s SAP practice.

You are:
A transformation maven with the skills to help clients meet the challenges of digitization. Your superpower? Using your know-how to solve clients’ most complex business problems to help their companies do more. You’re as comfortable working in teams and leading projects as you are diving into the details of workstreams and configuring SAP solutions. And you’re up for traveling regularly to client sites.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced SAP Finance Lead to drive finance transformation and operational excellence. This role requires deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA Finance, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to lead finance reporting, analytics, and process improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead finance reporting, analytics, and operational support activities.
• Drive improvements in financial reporting accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in SAP S/4HANA Finance and finance processes.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align finance operations with business goals.
• Provide strategic guidance on financial processes, systems, and reporting tools.
• Support decision-making through actionable insights and financial analysis.
• Promote best practices and continuous improvement across finance operations.

Basic Qualifications

Here’s what you need:

• Atleast 5+ years experience in SAP FICO
• Expert proficiency in SAP S/4HANA Finance
• Strong experience in financial reporting, analytics, and finance operations
• Proven ability to lead teams and influence stakeholders
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Experience in leading business process reengineering efforts to optimize finance-related workflows and enhance process efficiency.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders at various levels, including C-suite executives, to present functional strategies and gain buy-in.

Bonus points if:

• You’ve got expert proficiency in SAP S/4HANA FI General Ledger
• You’ve got advanced proficiency in Financial Management Reporting
• You’ve got advanced proficiency in Finance Processes and Systems
• You’ve got external consulting experience.
• You know how SAP’s business development process works and you can help clients understand how SAP will help their company do more

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 recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position. 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 Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $131,700 to $278,100

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.

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