Job Description: SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI) – Quality Assurance Consultant
Job Title: SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI) – Quality Assurance Consultant
Location: Saudi Arabia (Onsite – Phase-wise Deployment)
Industry: Oil & Gas / Midstream / Downstream / Petrochemical / Energy
Engagement Type: Independent Quality Assurance (QA) Consulting
Project Duration: Approximately 24 Months (Phase-wise Engagement)
SAP Module: SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI)
Experience Required: 10+ Years in SAP Consulting
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI) Quality Assurance Consultant to support a large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementation program for a leading Oil & Gas organization in Saudi Arabia.
The successful candidate will join an Independent Quality Assurance (QA) team responsible for reviewing, evaluating, and validating SAP Finance solutions and implementation deliverables developed by the System Integrator (SI).
The role requires extensive functional expertise in SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting (FI), General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Financial Closing, Credit and Collections Management, Vendor Invoice Management, and Financial Compliance Reporting.
The consultant will independently assess financial solution designs, validate business processes, review system integration and testing activities, identify implementation risks, and ensure compliance with SAP S/4HANA leading practices and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The engagement will follow a phase-wise deployment model across an approximately 24-month SAP transformation program, requiring onsite participation in Saudi Arabia during designated project phases.
Key Responsibilities
1. SAP S/4HANA Finance Solution Assurance
- Independently review and evaluate SAP S/4HANA Finance solution designs, configurations, and functional specifications.
- Assess financial organizational structures, company codes, chart of accounts, ledgers, posting structures, and financial reporting requirements.
- Validate Universal Journal design, ledger configurations, and parallel accounting requirements.
- Review financial master data, accounting principles, document types, posting rules, and financial controls.
- Assess the alignment of SAP Finance processes with business requirements, statutory obligations, and SAP leading practices.
- Identify functional gaps, design inconsistencies, configuration risks, and opportunities for process improvement.
2. General Ledger and Financial Accounting
- Review General Ledger (GL) design, chart of accounts, account determination, and financial posting structures.
- Assess Universal Journal integration and ledger configuration, including parallel accounting requirements.
- Validate financial document processing, journal entries, posting controls, and account reconciliation procedures.
- Review financial reporting structures, profit center-related reporting integration, and statutory reporting requirements.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of financial controls and accounting accuracy across legal entities.
- Identify risks affecting financial data integrity, accounting compliance, and reporting reliability.
3. Accounts Payable and Procure-to-Pay Integration
- Review Accounts Payable (AP) solution designs and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes.
- Assess supplier master data, vendor invoice processing, payment terms, payment runs, and reconciliation procedures.
- Validate integration between SAP Finance, Materials Management (MM), procurement, and payment processing.
- Review invoice verification, approval workflows, payment controls, and exception handling.
- Assess withholding tax, VAT-related accounting, and applicable statutory requirements.
- Evaluate automation opportunities and financial controls within supplier payment processes.
4. Accounts Receivable, Credit and Collections Management
- Review Accounts Receivable (AR) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) integration designs.
- Assess customer master data, invoicing, incoming payments, account clearing, and reconciliation processes.
- Validate integration between SAP Finance and Sales and Distribution (SD).
- Review credit management, credit exposure monitoring, collection strategies, and dispute management processes.
- Assess customer payment allocation, overdue receivables, and financial reporting requirements.
- Identify functional gaps and risks affecting revenue recognition interfaces, receivables accuracy, and cash collection processes.
5. Asset Accounting and Fixed Asset Management
- Review SAP S/4HANA Asset Accounting solution designs and configurations.
- Assess asset master data structures, asset classes, depreciation areas, and accounting integration.
- Validate asset acquisition, capitalization, depreciation, transfer, retirement, and disposal processes.
- Review integration between Asset Accounting, General Ledger, procurement, and project-related processes.
- Evaluate depreciation calculations, asset valuation, and financial statement reporting.
- Assess asset reconciliation and financial controls applicable to capital-intensive Oil & Gas operations.
- Identify implementation risks affecting fixed asset accuracy, valuation, and financial reporting.
6. Financial Closing and Reconciliation Assurance
- Review period-end and year-end financial closing processes.
- Assess financial close calendars, reconciliation procedures, approval workflows, and reporting requirements.
- Validate General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Asset Accounting reconciliation designs.