Title: SAP FICO consultant
Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid)
Type: Contract
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for areas of the Finance thread on the S4/program, focusing on SAP modules: VIM/Open Text, FI (Finance), CO (Controlling), and RAR (Revenue Accounting & Recognition).
- Provide solutions and enterprise enablement for the business on FI & CO, SAP VIM, RAR in a multinational company. Involved in the delivery of SAP project implementations across various regions.
- Oversee functional and process quality of SAP throughout the implementation and improvement project life cycles. Align with Flowserve Global Business Process Standardization and corporate policies' governance.
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements. Collaborate closely with the production support team, SAP consultants/business analysts, and regional & global business partners and project managers.
Core Financial Accounting (FI)
- S/4HANA General Ledger (GL): Advanced configuration of the ledger architecture, parallel accounting, multi-currency setups, document splitting, and optimization of the Universal Journal structure. Accounts Payable (AP) & Accounts Receivable (AR): Configuration of the Business Partner (BP) concept, electronic bank statements (EBS), automatic payment programs (APP), dunning processes, and customer/vendor integrations. Asset Accounting (AA): Implementing New Asset Accounting architecture in S/4HANA, managing asset acquisitions, complex depreciation areas, retirements, and technical clearing accounts.
Controlling & Management Accounting (CO)
- Cost Center & Profit Center Accounting (CCA/PCA): Setup of master data hierarchies, cost allocations, distributions, and real-time internal reporting alignments. Internal Orders & Product Costing (CO-PC): Configuring cost estimates, standard costing runs, material ledgers, and variance calculations. Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Expert knowledge of Margin Analysis (account-based CO-PA) native to S/4HANA.
Integration & Soft Skills
- Cross-Module Integration: Seamless execution of data flows between FI/CO and logistics modules, specifically SAP MM (Procurement) and SAP SD (Sales).
- RICEFW Development: Ability to author highly detailed functional specifications for custom reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows, collaborating closely with ABAP developers.
- S/4HANA Analytics: Utilizing SAP Fiori apps and embedded analytics for automated month-end financial close optimizations. Methodology: Proven experience running business blueprinting workshops, conducting Gap Analysis, and executing