SAP Senior Functional Analyst

Services OR LP/SEC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 128,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada seeks an SAP Senior Functional Analyst to lead SAP Finance processes across the Canadian firm. You will guide design, governance, and continuous improvement in Finance modules, collaborating with Finance, Procurement, HR, IT, and partners to ensure scalable, auditable solutions.

You will translate complex requirements into actionable SAP configurations, drive testing, and ensure alignment with security and disaster-recovery standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience supporting functional configuration and analysis spanning Finance, accounting, billing, procurement-adjacent, or related operational teams in an IT, SAP functional, business analyst, solution delivery, or application support capacity.
• Significant hands-on SAP ECC functional experience, with strong depth in Record to Report processes such as General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Controlling, period-end close, financial reporting, postings, reconciliations, and controls.
• Deep expertise in Procure-to-Pay, Project Systems, Billing, Revenue Management, and Master Data Management.
• Ability to analyze complex Finance and SAP process requirements and produce clear functional specifications, test scenarios, support documentation, and implementation-ready recommendations.
• Experience supporting SAP enhancements, upgrades, patches, releases, integrations, reporting changes, or broader Finance Applications initiatives.
• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA, preferably through at least one implementation, migration, upgrade, assessment, or transformation initiative.
• Strong knowledge of SAP governance, internal controls, segregation of duties, audit requirements, data governance, testing, change management, and release management.
• Experience leading or supporting SAP implementations, upgrades, transformation programs, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Understanding of SAP S/4HANA capabilities, migration considerations, and the functional impacts of ECC-to-S/4 transformation.
• Experience working with systems integrators, managed service providers, implementation partners, and third-party vendors.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, decision-making, facilitation, and communication skills across executive, business, end-user, and technical audiences.
• SAP certification and experience in a professional-services or legal environment are assets.
• Excellent spoken and written French is considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior functional authority for SAP Finance and related end-to-end business processes, providing advice on SAP capabilities, leading practices, process optimization, and complex functional decisions.
• Lead requirements workshops, business-process reviews, stakeholder consultations, and cross-functional solution-design activities for enhancements, projects, upgrades, releases, and transformation initiatives.
• Review functional specifications, solution designs, and configuration approaches; maintain oversight of configuration integrity across SAP modules and related financial applications.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, supportable, sustainable solutions and assess the impact of proposed business, regulatory, operational, and technology changes.
• Collaborate with Architects, Technical Analysts, Reporting, Security, business teams, and vendors to deliver integrated solutions and resolve complex issues.
• Collaborate with the Director, IT Infrastructure and other accountable technology leaders to ensure SAP functional designs align with approved security, infrastructure, backup and recovery, system-copy, refresh, disaster-recovery, identity-management, and operational-support standards.
• Escalate decisions affecting shared technology services to the appropriate accountable leader.
• Govern functional testing strategy, business validation, deployment readiness, solution acceptance, and supporting documentation.
• Define and maintain functional standards, design principles, configuration practices, process flows, and design decisions.
• Promote compliance with established controls, audit requirements, segregation-of-duties standards, regulatory obligations, and business-continuity requirements.
• Provide functional oversight and constructive guidance to implementation partners, managed service providers, and third-party vendors.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective action for recurring process and application issues, and drive continuous improvement in efficiency, automation, reporting effectiveness, data quality, and user adoption.
• Contribute to SAP roadmap planning, enhancement prioritization, effort estimation, business cases, and future-state process design.
• Provide direction and mentorship to SAP Functional Analysts and promote consistent practices across SAP-supported business functions.

Skills

SAP governance

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Change management

Decision making

Facilitation

French language

Education

SAP Certification

Tools

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Role Overview

The Role Reporting to the Director, Financial Applications, the SAP Senior Functional Analyst provides functional leadership, design authority, governance, and continuous improvement for SAP business processes and related financial applications across the Canadian firm. As a senior member of the SAP Centre of Excellence (CoE), the role serves as a principal functional advisor for SAP Finance and advanced knowledge of surrounding modules and business domains (Billing, Controlling, Materials Management and Project Systems) ensuring consistency across SAP in process, configuration, control, and solution-design decisions. Working closely with Finance, Procurement, HR, Operations, IT, vendors, and implementation partners, the SAP Senior Functional Analyst is accountable for maintaining the functional integrity of the SAP platform while ensuring solutions remain scalable, supportable, auditable, and aligned with firm objectives. As a trusted advisor to business leadership, the role promotes process standardization, governance, data quality, controls compliance, and continuous improvement while helping shape the long-term evolution of NRF Canada's SAP Centre of Excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior functional authority for SAP Finance and related end-to-end business processes, providing advice on SAP capabilities, leading practices, process optimization, and complex functional decisions.
• Lead requirements workshops, business-process reviews, stakeholder consultations, and cross-functional solution-design activities for enhancements, projects, upgrades, releases, and transformation initiatives.
• Review functional specifications, solution designs, and configuration approaches; maintain oversight of configuration integrity across SAP modules and related financial applications.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, supportable, sustainable solutions and assess the impact of proposed business, regulatory, operational, and technology changes.
• Collaborate with Architects, Technical Analysts, Reporting, Security, business teams, and vendors to deliver integrated solutions and resolve complex issues.
• Collaborate with the Director, IT Infrastructure and other accountable technology leaders to ensure SAP functional designs align with approved security, infrastructure, backup and recovery, system-copy, refresh, disaster-recovery, identity-management, and operational-support standards.
• Escalate decisions affecting shared technology services to the appropriate accountable leader.
• Govern functional testing strategy, business validation, deployment readiness, solution acceptance, and supporting documentation.
• Define and maintain functional standards, design principles, configuration practices, process flows, and design decisions.
• Promote compliance with established controls, audit requirements, segregation-of-duties standards, regulatory obligations, and business-continuity requirements.
• Provide functional oversight and constructive guidance to implementation partners, managed service providers, and third-party vendors.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective action for recurring process and application issues, and drive continuous improvement in efficiency, automation, reporting effectiveness, data quality, and user adoption.
• Contribute to SAP roadmap planning, enhancement prioritization, effort estimation, business cases, and future-state process design.
• Provide direction and mentorship to SAP Functional Analysts and promote consistent practices across SAP-supported business functions.

Skills and Experience Required

• 10+ years of experience supporting functional configuration and analysis spanning Finance, accounting, billing, procurement-adjacent, or related operational teams in an IT, SAP functional, business analyst, solution delivery, or application support capacity.
• Significant hands-on SAP ECC functional experience, with strong depth in Record to Report processes such as General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Controlling, period-end close, financial reporting, postings, reconciliations, and controls.
• Deep expertise in Procure-to-Pay, Project Systems, Billing, Revenue Management, and Master Data Management.
• Ability to analyze complex Finance and SAP process requirements and produce clear functional specifications, test scenarios, support documentation, and implementation-ready recommendations.
• Experience supporting SAP enhancements, upgrades, patches, releases, integrations, reporting changes, or broader Finance Applications initiatives.
• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA, preferably through at least one implementation, migration, upgrade, assessment, or transformation initiative.
• Strong knowledge of SAP governance, internal controls, segregation of duties, audit requirements, data governance, testing, change management, and release management.
• Experience leading or supporting SAP implementations, upgrades, transformation programs, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Understanding of SAP S/4HANA capabilities, migration considerations, and the functional impacts of ECC-to-S/4 transformation.
• Experience working with systems integrators, managed service providers, implementation partners, and third-party vendors.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, decision-making, facilitation, and communication skills across executive, business, end-user, and technical audiences.
• SAP certification and experience in a professional-services or legal environment are assets.
• Excellent spoken and written French is considered an asset.

Diversity and Inclusion Diversity is an important firm value. We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and to providing a workplace which is free from discrimination and harassment. This means that all job applicants, employees and partners will receive equal treatment regardless of race, colour, ethnic or national origins, sex, marital status, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Salary: Toronto: $128,300 - $158,500

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