SAP Finance Solution Specialist FICO 25-154

Morson Talent; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading talent management firm in Canada is seeking a SAP FICO & Finance Solution Specialist to drive financial processes within a modern S/4HANA landscape. This role demands at least 10 years of experience in SAP FICO and expertise in financial close and regulatory reporting. Responsibilities include solution design, compliance assurance, and team mentorship. Competitive compensation offered.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of SAP FICO experience, including 2 full-cycle S/4HANA implementations.
• Strong expertise in financial planning and regulatory reporting (IFRS, GAAP).
• Excellent analytical, advisory, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and implementation for core SAP FICO processes.
• Design and configure advanced finance capabilities and intercompany eliminations.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and audit readiness.

Skills

SAP FICO experience

Financial close expertise

Analytical skills

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, IT

Tools

SAP Fiori

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP BW/4HANA

Job description

Overview

Job Overview The SAP FICO & Finance Solution Specialist plays a strategic role in architecting, configuring, and delivering end-to-end financial processes within a modern S/4HANA landscape. This position combines technical mastery with business acumen, advisory capability, and transformational leadership. The successful candidate will drive value across record-to-report, planning, consolidation, and enterprise performance management, while ensuring strong integration, compliance, and alignment with OPG's enterprise architecture and innovation goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and implementation for core SAP FICO processes: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting, Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Project Systems (PS).
• Design and configure advanced finance capabilities: parallel ledgers, chart of accounts, profit center hierarchy, intercompany eliminations, and tax localization.
• Drive seamless integration with adjacent modules: Materials Management (MM), Sales & Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), and Human Resources (HR).
• Analyze and translate business requirements into SAP-enabled solutions, conducting fit-gap analysis, blueprinting, and supporting end-to-end project delivery using SAP Activate and agile methodologies.
• Develop and validate reporting and analytics using SAP Fiori apps, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), embedded analytics, SAP BW/4HANA, and BusinessObjects.
• Support financial planning, consolidation, and group reporting, including integration with planning tools (e.g., Anaplan) and multi-entity, multinational requirements.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks related to finance solutions and data migration.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls (SOX, ICOFR), audit readiness, and regulatory / tax localization.
• Oversee data migration, data mapping, and master data management, ensuring data quality and governance in collaboration with business owners.
• Collaborate with ABAP, NetWeaver, and integration teams to deliver custom enhancements, interfaces, and reporting solutions.
• Provide post-go-live support, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement for SAP FICO processes.
• Deliver user training, documentation, and change management support to finance and business teams.
• Mentor team members and foster a collaborative, high-performing environment.

Solution Architecture & Governance

• Align finance solution architecture with OPG's enterprise architecture, leveraging tools such as LeanIX and Signavio for process modeling and documentation.
• Ensure all design decisions reflect SAP best practices, industry standards, and extensibility via SAP BTP and NetWeaver.
• Collaborate with technical architects and project managers to validate blueprint design, system scalability, and integration across modules and third-party systems.
• Apply configuration expertise (IMG / SPRO) to support design validation, gap analysis, and fit-to-standard enablement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Technology, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
• 10+ years of SAP FICO experience, with at least 2 full-cycle S/4HANA implementations.
• Strong expertise in financial close, planning, consolidation, and regulatory reporting (IFRS, GAAP, multi-entity).
• Proven experience with SAP Fiori, embedded analytics, NetWeaver, and integration with MM, SD, PP, EAM, HR.
• Knowledge of SAP Activate methodology, value engineering, and data governance.
• Experience with post-go-live support, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent analytical, advisory, and communication skills.
• Experience in utilities, asset-intensive, or regulated industries is an asset.