The SAP Functional Consultant – Group Reporting Specialist
The SAP Functional Consultants – Group Reporting will support the use of the newly implemented Group Reporting module to generate consolidated financial statements for City. The consultant will be a member of the hypercare team for the project. The resource will.
Responsibilities
- Support the generation of financial statements for the City, Agencies, Boards, and Corporations.
- Review and update data gathered from workshops with Financial reporting and consolidation teams.
- Review and update the current state, year end consolidation processes.
- Review and update mapping of business requirements to SAP/4HANA Group reporting functionality.
- Review and update group structures.
- Configure consolidation units, groups document types.
- Set up Consolidation logistics.
- Inter‑agency/corporation eliminations.
- Configure data Collection.
- ACDOCA to ACDOCU mapping.
- Validation rules.
- Reclassification and adjustment postings.
- Integrate local accounting (ACDOCA) with group reporting (ACDOCU).
- Configure Data Release, Mapping, and Validation between accounting and consolidation.
- Enable year‑end closing activities.
- Intercompany reconciliation and eliminations.
- Consolidation of investments.
- Consolidation of equity.
- Reporting and disclosures.
- Guide users in running consolidation tasks and resolving issues.
- Develop financial reports required by Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB).
- Statement of Financial Position.
- Statement of operations.
- Statement of Remeasurement Gains and Losses.
- Statement of Changes in Net Debt.
- Tangible Capital Assets.
- Provide support for triaging of support tickets, troubleshooting, issue identification, and defect resolution.
- Support the PMO in the prioritization and implementation of items deferred to the post go‑live period.
- Work in collaboration with the Business Process Lead and vendor lead informing the design, development and configuration of the SAP solution and its integration with SAP and non‑SAP solutions.
- Support the R2R team providing SAP knowledge/expertise/leadership.
- Identify linkages to other key processes to support reporting.
- Help the City validate proposed functionality and alignment to design with the Systems Integrator and provide their experience in leading best practices.
- Provide leadership related to business processes, accounting principles, systems configuration, enhancements and data to enable related processes.
Qualifications
- 10+ years hands‑on experience in large project/program management with Government jurisdictions and or large private sector organizations.
- Experience in delivering at least 2 end‑to‑end implementations with at least 1 implementation in a public sector environment.
- Implementation of Group reporting in a municipality would be a distinct advantage.
- Knowledge of PSAB requirements.
- Preparation of financial statement in required formats.
- Experience in designing, configuring and implementing SAP/4HANA Group Reporting including data collection and intercompany eliminations.
- SAP Certification Group Reporting.
- Expertise and experience in other SAP/4HANA modules: Finance, Controlling, Accounts Payable, Funds Management, Grants Management, Project Systems, Asset Accounting and Asset Retirement Obligation.
- Extensive experience providing support during hypercare period of a project implementation and transitioning to sustainment.
- Experience in troubleshooting, problem resolution during post go‑live period.
- Experience in consolidating financial data from various sources to produce financial statements.
- Expertise in configuration of S/4 HANA modules PS, AA, ARO as well as understanding the integration to FICO, Materials Management.
- Strong knowledge of test methodologies. Extensive experience with traditional and innovative project management processes, techniques, tools across agile, waterfall, iterative methods and associated tools including PMBOK or SAP Activate Methodology.
- Ability to lead efficient communication between all project stakeholders, including internal teams and clients.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills (comfortable & confident communicating at all levels, including business partners, leadership and vendors).