Sap Finance Control Consultant

Milestone Research; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Milestone Research is seeking a Finance transformation professional to join the SAP S/4 HANA Finance team in Portugal. You will support global finance transformation projects, collaborating with IT, Sales, Logistics and subsidiaries to harmonize processes and ensure compliance.

Based in Lisbon or Santo Tirso, you will work in an international environment, driving rollouts, managing incidents, and delivering change requests on time.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in Finance / IT domains.
• Experience with SAP implementation / support.
• Knowledge of R2R, P2P, O2C processes.

Responsibilities

• Support SAP S/4 HANA Central Finance across 80+ entities.
• Run maintenance and change requests to ensure reliability.
• Collect incidents and implement fixes.
• Design, test, and deliver configuration changes.
• Coordinate migrations and manage project scope, budget, risks.

Skills

SAP S/4 Hana

Finance transformation

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Our client is a global leader in the aerospace industry, specializing in commercial aircraft, helicopters, defense and space technologies. The company has established a strong and growing presence in Portugal, which plays an increasingly strategic role in its international operations. Today, the company employs over 1,400 professionals in Portugal across two major operational hubs in Lisbon and Santo Tirso.

Role Description

You will join the Finance transformation team and will be responsible for SAP S/4 HANA Finance support and project deployment within the group.In an international environment, connected with a wide Finance network, in collaboration with multicultural and multifunctional teams (Finance, IT, Sales, Logistic, Subsidiaries...), you will contribute to the following types of projects:

Support Group worldwide transformation by extending SAP S/4 HANA Central Finance solution to subsidiaries, generating process and compliance harmonization.

• Finance systems evolutions

Adjust permanently Finance solutions to answer to business evolutions and challenges, to comply with tax, accounting norms and other regulations.

Tasks & accountabilities

On the S/4 HANA SAP solutions covering General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Tax, Cost accounting,Consolidation and Treasury, the jobholder will have the responsibilities to support worldwide accounting users network, for 80+ legal entities of the Commercial Aircraft division.

The main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Run all necessary maintenance and change requests activities to ensure reliable operations;
• Collect incidents, analyzing, propose and apply solutions to fix.
• Design, implement, test and deliver change requests on time and with quality.
• Ensure the product documentation is always up to date.
• Describe and Analyze the As Is Business Processes and Systems
• Identify Gaps versus Group SAP S/4 Finance Core Model
• Define and customize the target SAP Finance solution adapted to the entity
• Execute and Coordinate unit and integration tests
• Define and execute the Migration
• Manage all projects dimensions: scope, planning, budget, risk and reporting
• Drive project life cycle activities: from concept definition until entry in service
• Animation of multi-functional project teams
• Interpret functional needs of finance teams and translate into new processes and solutions
• Support solutions definitions with IT departments
• Change management for Finance community
• Secure permanently the stability, reliability, quality and performance of Finance Systems
• Anticipate Finance systems evolutions and propose improvements

Ideal profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Finance / IT
• Background in Accounting & Management Accounting standards
• Experience with all aspects of SAP implementation / support (requirements analyzes, system configuration, testing, documentation and end user training
• Good understanding of Business Processes in Finance area (R2R, P2P, O2C…)
• Knowledge in SAP S/4 Hana will be a plus
• Strong Analytical skills
• Negotiation and Stakeholder management skills
• Customer oriented and team spirit
• Curiosity, open mind, promote new ideas, new ways of working