Freelance SAP S/4HANA Finance & Record-to-Report (RTR) Consultant
Fully Remote | Freelance Contract | SAP S/4HANA 2025
We are seeking an experienced freelance SAP S/4HANA Finance and Record-to-Report (RTR) Consultant to support a global SAP S/4HANA 2025 environment, covering application management services (AMS), production support and ongoing enhancements.
The role combines functional ownership across key Finance and RTR areas, with a focus on maintaining stable business-critical operations, resolving complex issues and delivering controlled improvements across the SAP landscape.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide L2/L3 functional support, including incident investigation, root-cause analysis, problem resolution and prevention of recurring issues.
- Support month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities, ensuring accurate financial processing, reconciliations and timely issue resolution.
- Deliver SAP configuration changes and enhancements, from requirements gathering and solution design through testing, release and hypercare.
- Maintain integration and reconciliation across Finance, Controlling, Treasury, Tax and wider business processes.
- Produce functional specifications, test scenarios, process documentation, runbooks and support materials.
- Collaborate with Finance and business stakeholders, technical teams, external vendors and global delivery teams.
- Support audit, compliance, segregation-of-duties and change‑control requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve automation, reporting, controls and operational efficiency.
Functional Areas
The engagement covers four key SAP Finance and RTR areas:
SAP FI – General Ledger & Fixed Assets
- General Ledger, ledger configuration, currencies, document splitting and financial close.
- Journal processing, reconciliations, intercompany accounting and foreign currency valuation.
- Fixed Asset Accounting, including asset master data, acquisitions, depreciation, assets under construction and asset-to-GL reconciliation.
SAP CO – Controlling & Margin Analysis
- SAP S/4HANA Margin Analysis / account-based CO-PA and profitability reporting.
- Profitability segments, characteristics, derivation rules, allocations and settlement.
- Product costing dependencies, cost centres, profit centres, variances and cost-of-sales analysis.
- Reconciliation of profitability results to financial accounting.
SAP Treasury, Cash & Risk Management
- Cash and Liquidity Management, Bank Account Management and Bank Communication Management.
- Treasury transaction processing, settlement, valuation, accruals and accounting.
- Bank connectivity, payment processing, SWIFT, ISO 20022 and electronic bank statements.
- Cash forecasting, liquidity visibility, treasury controls and risk‑management processes.
SAP Indirect Tax & Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
- Indirect tax determination across procure-to-pay and order-to-cash, including VAT, GST and sales/use tax.
- SAP tax configuration, tax codes, procedures, jurisdiction logic and account determination.
- SAP and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE integration, including interface monitoring, error resolution and reconciliation.
- Tax reporting, statutory‑change support, e‑invoicing and SAP Document and Reporting Compliance where applicable.
Required Experience
- Typically 8+ years of SAP Finance, Controlling, Treasury or Tax experience, with substantial hands‑on functional delivery and application support experience.
- Strong SAP S/4HANA experience, including at least one relevant implementation or transformation programme.
- Proven experience providing production support, resolving complex functional issues and delivering enhancements.
- Strong understanding of Finance processes, integrations, reconciliations and period‑end activities.
- Experience translating business requirements into SAP configuration, functional specifications and test scenarios.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and problem‑solving skills.
- Ability to work independently in a global delivery environment and take ownership of issues through to resolution.
For the Indirect Tax / ONESOURCE workstream:
hands‑on experience with SAP tax processes and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE in an integrated production environment is mandatory, including indirect tax determination and cross‑platform troubleshooting.
- Engagement: Freelance
- Working arrangement: Fully remote
- System: SAP S/4HANA 2025
- Focus: Application Management Services (AMS) and enhancements
- Support: L2/L3 functional ownership, with close‑cycle and critical‑change coverage as scheduled