Title: ERP Program - SAP Finance Solution Specialist FICO
Resume Due Date: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 (5:00PM EST)
Number of Vacancies: 2
Level: MP5 upto $100/hr INC
Duration: 24 months
Hours of work:40
Location: 700 University Ave & Oshawa (Hybrid, 2 days remote)
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.
Key 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.